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Sat 28 Dec 2024 10:19 am - Jerusalem Time

Netanyahu is going to open war with Yemen



Israeli leaders, from Netanyahu to his Minister of War, have threatened Yemen with paying a heavy price in light of its escalation of its support war with suicide drones and hypersonic missiles, such that Yemen has become the main support arena in light of the ceasefire in Lebanon, the geostrategic transformations in Syria, and the American-Israeli pressures on the Iraqi government to stop the support war through the Popular Mobilization Forces, because Iraq is unable to bear the consequences of an Israeli-American aggression against it.

Netanyahu and his Minister of War, who promised Yemen a fate similar to that of Haniyeh in Tehran, His Eminence Sayyed Nasrallah in Beirut, and Sinwar in the Gaza Strip, and that what will happen to Yemen is similar to what happened to those leaders, from assassinations and liquidations, as well as targeting infrastructure, ports, airports, power stations and electricity (i.e. economic, civilian, service and vital targets), not to mention the efforts to destroy Yemeni military capabilities with ballistic missiles and suicide drones.

Yemen, in light of the calm of other support fronts, has turned into the main support arena, where it has increased the rates and pace of launching hypersonic missiles "Palestine 2", and the "Jaffa" attack drones. These missiles and drones, which all Israeli and American air defense systems with their multiple layers have failed to intercept, whether the "Iron Domes", or "David's Sling", and "Arrow 1 and 3", and the American "THAAD" and Patriot systems, and the lowest cost of an interceptor missile launched at Yemeni missiles reaches 50 thousand dollars, and the highest cost reaches 3 million dollars.

This Yemeni escalation has clearly stated that the Israeli home front has become exposed to Yemeni missiles and drones, that Israeli security and deterrence have been severely damaged, and that the Israeli home front is now living in a state of anxiety and fear, and that about two million settlers are running to shelters on a daily basis to the sound of Yemeni hypersonic missiles, not to mention the disruption of air traffic at Lod Airport, and the resulting human and economic losses.

Israel's leaders in the military and security establishments realize that Yemen is difficult to "tame" or dissuade from continuing its support battle, and that destroying its military and armament capabilities and its stockpile of hypersonic missiles and attack drones, and eliminating its leaders, is not possible through an air war. Rather, this requires a ground war, and for Israel to have military bases in neighboring countries. The distance between Yemen and Israel is 2,000 km, which pushes Israel to send support aircraft for the attacking warplanes in order to refuel them in the air, and this does not achieve the desired results.

Yesterday, Israel launched a large-scale aggression on Yemen, with the participation and facilitation of the American and British naval forces, while Imam Abdul-Malik al-Houthi was giving his speech. The attacking aircraft targeted Sana’a International Airport, the port of Hodeidah - Ras Issa port, and power and electricity stations. The attack coincided with the presence of UN missions in Yemen, including the Director of the World Health Organization and the UN Resident Coordinator in Yemen. This attack clearly expressed Israel’s inability to confront Yemen, as compensation for its failure to confront the Yemeni hypersonic missiles. Therefore, it resorted to striking airports, ports, power and electricity stations, i.e. civilian structures.

Yemen responded to the Israeli attack by launching a hypersonic missile at Lod Airport, and a suicide drone at Jaffa, where Israel admitted that 18 people were injured, according to what it says was a result of the stampede, and Israel always covers up and conceals its losses.

There is no place among the Yemenis for what is known as the Iranian policy of strategic patience, nor the Syrian policy of responding at the appropriate time and place, which was followed by the late Syrian regime, nor the policy of waiting, and betting on the international community and international institutions, the state, the army and the Lebanese resistance.

Yemen translates its decisions into direct action on the ground, as the popular saying goes, “Strike while the iron is hot.”

Avigdor Lieberman, leader of "Israel Beiteinu", commented on the Yemeni hypersonic missiles, saying, "Yemenis wearing sandals are directing an entire country in the middle of the night to shelters."

The leaders of the State of Israel, military and security personnel, experts, opinion writers, military and political commentators, and retirees in the military and security establishments acknowledge two things: the first is that there is no point in betting on the effectiveness of subjugating Yemen and breaking its will to bring it to the stage of abandoning the option of confrontation with Israel, as Yemen has a courageous leadership, ideological armed forces, and a broad popular state that embraces the idea of supporting Palestine. The second is that there is no point in betting on disabling the Yemeni military capabilities that have proven to be qualitative, highly effective, and capable of reaching deep into Israel, in addition to its ability to continue protecting the achievement of preventing ships heading to Israel via the Red Sea.

What are Netanyahu and his war leaders threatening Yemen with in this open war? One of two options, or both? Targeting army sites and civilian infrastructure, assassinations in the style of Lebanon, and perhaps even massacres of civilians in the style of Gaza, or both. Here the question becomes: How will Yemen deal with such an open war? Will it be, as His Eminence Sayyed Nasrallah said, a war without limits, rules, or controls? Or will it maintain the same pace of response and targeting? The data indicates that Yemen has not used all its energies, capabilities, capacities, and cards, and that the response will include identifying targets inside the occupying state in order to target them, i.e. an airport for an airport, a port for a port, a power station for a power station, a gas platform for a power station, and civilian population centers for population centers. The essential thing here is that Yemen has a solid, cohesive and ideological internal front that is ready to pay the price, while there is an Israeli internal front that believes that stopping targeting it with Yemeni ballistic missiles, hypersonic missiles and drones, the shortest way to stop it, is to go to an exchange deal, stop the war and withdraw from the Gaza Strip.

Yemen, which will expand its target bank inside Israel, is fully aware that this aggressive war being waged against it is in partnership with the US and Britain, which has carried out more than one attack on Yemen. Without this support and partnership with Israel, it would not have persisted in its aggression and arrogance politically and practically against the region, the province and Yemen. Therefore, Yemen said with a full mouth that any country that facilitates aggression against it or participates in it, its lands and the US bases located on it will be exposed to Yemeni targeting, and American warships and destroyers will not be immune from Yemeni targeting. Yemen is the only Arab country that has its own decision, and has struck American destroyers and warships in the Red Sea and forced them to flee, after damaging many of them, from Roosevelt to Nicolun to Eisenhower, and after that Truman.

Therefore, the American and British partners in particular will bear responsibility for the Israeli aggression against Yemen, and Yemen, if the war and aggression against it intensifies, will not hesitate to close Bab al-Mandab, and beyond that, close the Strait of Hormuz, which means paralyzing the movement of global trade, and the oil and gas trade in particular, and this will lead to collapses in the energy market, and unimaginable increases in oil prices, and repercussions on the stock markets and stock exchanges, and even on Europe, which has lost its Russian supplier and has only the supply sources that cross the Red Sea.


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Yemen has a solid, cohesive and ideological internal front that is ready to pay the price, while there is an Israeli internal front that believes that stopping targeting it with Yemeni ballistic missiles, hypersonic missiles and drones, the shortest way to stop it, is to go to an exchange deal, stop the war and withdraw from the Gaza Strip.

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