[News] Are the Houthis Gaining the Upper Hand?

Mon Nov 25 10:54:00 EST 2024

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Are the Houthis Gaining the Upper Hand?
Vijay Prashad
November 25, 2024
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On November 14, 2023, a month into Israel’s genocidal attack on the
Palestinians in Gaza, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, one of the leaders of Ansar
Allah and of the government of Yemen, delivered a speech that was broadcast
on Al-Masirah television. “Our eyes are open to constant monitoring and
searching for any Israeli ship,” he said
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“The enemy relies on camouflage in its movement in the Red Sea, especially
in Bab al-Mandab, and [does] not dare to raise Israeli flags on its ships.”
The Bab al-Mandab, the Gate of Grief, is the 14-nautical-mile wide waterway
between Djibouti and Yemen. What is interesting is that, by United Nations
treaty
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a country claims 12 nautical miles as its territorial limit; this means a
large part of the waters are within Yemen’s jurisdiction.

Five days later, Yemeni commandos flew in a helicopter over Galaxy Leader,
a cargo ship that is registered in the Bahamas and is operated by the
Japanese NYK shipping line but that is partially owned by Abraham Ungar
(one of Israel’s richest
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men). The ship continues
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to be held within Yemen’s territorial waters in the port of Saleef, with
its 25 crew members as hostages
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in Al-Hudaydah governorate. This assault on Galaxy Leader, and then on
several other Israeli-owned vessels, halted the traffic of goods to the
Port of Eliat, which sits at the end of the Gulf of Aqaba
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Squeezed between Egypt and Jordan, this port, which is the only
non-Mediterranean Sea access for Israel, no longer has the level of cargo
ships that it had before October 2023 and the private operator of the port
has said
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it is almost bankrupt. Over the course of the past year, the port has been
hit by drone and missile strikes emanating from Bahrain
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Iraq
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and Yemen
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.

*U.S. Strikes Are Not Working*

Yemen’s government said that it would desist from any attack if Israel
stopped its genocidal war against the Palestinians. Since the Israeli
attack continues, Yemen’s attacks have also continued. These Yemeni attacks
have provoked massive assaults on Yemen’s already fragile
infrastructure—including an Israeli attack
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on Yemen’s port city of Hodeidah in July and punctual missile attacks
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by the United States. When U. S. President Joe Biden was asked if the U. S.
airstrikes and missile strikes on Yemen were working, he answered
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bluntly: “When you say ‘working,’ are they stopping the Houthis? No. Are
they going to continue? Yes.” In other words, Yemen’s
government—erroneously called the Houthis after the Zaydi tradition of
Islam followed by a quarter of the Yemeni population—is not going to cease
its attacks on Israel just because the U.S. and the Israelis have been
hitting their country. Yemeni opposition to the Israeli genocide exceeds
the Zaydi community, the Ansar Allah movement, and the Yemeni government.
Even Tawakkol Karman, who received the Nobel Prize for Peace in 2011 and is
a critic of the Yemeni government, has been vocal
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in her criticism of Israel.

Biden’s admission that the U.S. missile strikes will not stop Yemen from
its attacks has been accurate. Yemen faced a murderous bombardment from
Saudi Arabia from 2015 to 2023, with the Saudis destroying large parts of
the infrastructure in Yemen. And yet, the Yemenis have maintained the
ability to strike Israeli targets. In October 2024, the United States
military deployed
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B-2 Spirit bombers to hit what the Pentagon called, “five underground
targets.” It was not clear if these weapons depots were destroyed, but it
does show the increasing desperation of the U.S. and Israel to stop the
Yemeni attacks. The names of the U.S. missions (Operation Prosperity
Guardian and Operation Poseidon Archer) sound impressive. They are backed
by a roster of carrier strike groups to protect Israel and to hit Yemen as
well as groups that attempt to deter Israel’s genocide. There are at least
40,000 U.S. troops in the Middle East and at any given time at least
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one carrier strike group with aircraft carriers and destroyers. According
to the U.S. Navy
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there are two destroyers in the Mediterranean Sea (USS Bulkeley and USS
Arleigh Burke) and two in the Red Sea (USS Cole and USS Jason Dunham), with
Carrier Strike Group 8, anchored
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by the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman, en route to the Mediterranean
as USS Abraham Lincoln goes off to the Pacific Ocean. There is a
considerable amount of U.S. firepower in the area around Israel.

*A Political Solution*

Biden has not been the only person to say that the U.S. attacks on Yemen
have failed. U. S. Vice Admiral George Wikoff, who leads Operation
Prosperity Guardian, addressed
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an audience in Washington, D.C. from his headquarters in Bahrain in August.
Wikoff said that the United States cannot “find a centralized center of
gravity” for the Yemenis, which means that it cannot apply “a classic
deterrence policy.” If the United States cannot strike fear into the
leadership of the Yemeni government, then it cannot halt the Yemeni attacks
on Israeli shipping or infrastructure. “We have certainly degraded their
capability,” Wikoff said referring to the drones and missiles shot down by
the U.S. weapons. Wikoff did not mention
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that each of the Yemeni missiles and drones cost about $2,000, while the
U.S. missiles used to shoot them down cost $2 million. In the end, the
Yemenis might be the ones degrading the U.S. military (the Wall Street
Journal reported
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in October that the U.S. is running low on air-defense missiles, and the
same paper reported
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June that the U.S. had spent $1 billion on its war on Yemen since October
2023). Like Biden, Wikoff reflected: “Have we stopped them? No.” In an
interesting aside, Wikoff said, “The solution is not going to come at the
end of a weapon system.”

As far as the Yemeni government is concerned, the only solution will come
when Israel ceases its genocide. But even a ceasefire might not be
sufficient. In early November, the United Nations official Louise Wateridge
posted
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a video on X of the desolation in northern Gaza, and then wrote, “An entire
society now a graveyard.” The ability of the Yemeni government to cease
shipping to Israel and to pin down the United States off its coast might
embolden it to continue with this if Israel continues its illegal policies
of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and apartheid. Both Wikoff and Biden agree
that the U.S. policy has not worked, and Wikoff even said that the solution
is not going to be through military force. It will have to be political.

*This article was produced by Globetrotter
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*Vijay Prashad’s most recent book (with Noam Chomsky) is The Withdrawal:
Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan and the Fragility of US Power (New Press, August
2022).*
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