SHOCK Admission Over Houthi Attacks Spells Trouble For Israel!

Right, so no matter what gets thrown at the Houthis of Yemen, it doesn’t seem to be making much of a difference. Yet again US and UK forces have struck areas of Yemen, from the capital Sanaa, to the port city of Hodeidah, much as they have before and it really does smack of the definition of insanity to continue to do the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result, because they’ve done all this before, they’ve caused damage to Yemeni civilian life and infrastructure and yet the Houthis have not only weathered such attacks before, but have even continued launching attacks themselves on Israel or their allies whilst such attacks on them were underway. The seeming futility of pro Israel efforts to make a difference to ongoing daily Houthis attacks on Israel itself and on shipping still that has been going on for more than a year has now been rounded out by some astoundingly candid and uncharacteristically honest admissions where it comes to Houthis and how big a problem for Israel they will clearly continue to be going forwards and deservedly so at that.
Right, so this is less a series of unfortunate events, Israel and their allies frankly deserve nothing less for continuing and supporting the genocide still happening in Gaza, and more a series of deserved blows, karma being meted out by the Ansar Allah movement in Yemen, the Houthis as we more often call them, and it’s been revealed in a series of candid admissions by both Israeli and US sources pointing out the struggle they’ve got in containing the Houthi threat.
This week, the attacks on Israel have continued on a nightly basis, always a strike at night, often a combined missile and drone attack, since the Israeli air defences struggle with such co-ordinated attacks, not to mention allied forces to them, sending Israelis scrambling for shelters and having struck the Israeli port city of Haifa earlier this week, the Houthis missile range can now almost reach Lebanon and given the speed they have progressed at, who would put it beyond their capabilities before much longer to get that far and possibly be able to strike Israeli forces still stubbornly refusing to withdraw from Southern Lebanon as a theoretical possibility at least?
One of the big shocks of the last week was the attack on the USS Harry S Truman, the US aircraft carrier in the Red Sea, one of the most high profile and heavily armed targets in the Middle East right now and not only did the Houthis apparently hit it and do some damage, but they’ve gone for it a second time now too.
This came after yet more strikes on Yemen by US and UK forces on consecutive days, where on the 9th January areas of Sanaa, Hodeidah and Amran were struck, 6 air raids in total, which followed a bombing raid on Sanaa alone the previous night.
On the 10th they were joined by Israeli air forces and a 20 strong set of warplanes struck over the course of 11 air raids the capital of Sanaa once again, this time coinciding with the weekly Pro Palestine march in the Yemeni capital, where an estimated 1 million people were out. An excerpt on this event covered by The Cradle reads:
‘More than 20 fighter jets took part in the attack, according to Israel’s Yedioth Ahronoth. Israel’s Broadcasting Corporation (KAN) said this was the first joint US–British–Israeli attack against Yemen.
The attacks coincided with a statement by the Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF) – which are merged with the Ansarallah resistance movement – announcing drone and missile attacks on the USS Harry Truman Aircraft carrier and other US warships near the Red Sea.
It also announced targeting the Tel Aviv area with three drones, which Israel said were shot down on Thursday night.
Israeli news outlet Channel 12 said the strikes against Yemen on Friday were not a response to the drone attacks but rather “a large-scale attack that was planned in advance, as part of a change in Israel’s policy towards Yemen.” It added that preparations have begun for a Yemeni response against Israel.
The US and UK have stepped up their raids against Yemen in further attempts to deter Sanaa from continuing its pro-Palestine naval operations against Israeli-linked interests and US warships in the Red Sea area.
Israel – despite dealing with a significant intelligence gap in Yemen – has recently launched large-scale attacks on the country and has vowed to continue its campaign in response to direct Yemeni drone and missile attacks against Tel Aviv and other areas in Israel.
Israeli officials have made threats against Yemeni leadership recently. Sanaa’s security forces announced this week that they foiled a UK–Saudi espionage plot aimed at gathering intelligence on military targets and state leaders in the country.
Meanwhile, Sanaa has repeatedly asserted that it will not cease its operations until the war in Gaza is brought to an end.’
So the US, the UK and Israel have ganged up on Yemen for the first time ever, in order to defend Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza against a nation having none of it and as you might have picked up on, whilst that tripartite attack on Yemen was going on, the Houthis were announcing the fact they’d actually hit the USS Harry S Truman for the second time, the attacks being meted out on Yemen are blind, the lack of intelligence is telling and all they are actually doing is attacking more civilian areas and not slowing the Houthis down in the slightest. It’s not as though attempts to gather intelligence haven’t been made, this channel discussed the foiling of that attempted joint spy mission by the UK and Saudi forces the other day, it was so embarrassingly poor, and to think the people they sent in had apparently been trained by MI6! James Bond they weren’t!
But the second attack on the US aircraft carrier again reinforces the determination and emboldenment of the Houthis, not afraid to take on any target and it wasn’t the only warship targeted apparently this time either as a combination once more of cruise missile and explosive laden drones descended upon the Red Sea determined to wreak as much havoc as they could and all of this apparently happened during the operations by the US, UK and Israel, with their attacks preceding the strikes on the Truman and continuing afterwards, the Houthis claiming to have foiled an attempted air strike from the carrier itself, implying the actual strikes on Yemen might have been intended to be larger than was actually seen, but we only have their word for that on such matters. I
But it is the admissions following all of this that have struck a chord most of all.
You see these attacks on the Truman and Israel mark a year, mark the anniversary of the first attempts to stop the Houthis in their attacks at that point on shipping in the Red Sea, Operation Prosperity Guardian and Operation Poseidon Archer – the former supposed to stop the Houthis at sea, the latter a US and UK attempt to take out Yemeni infrastructure and cripple the country economically - but given what the Houthis are capable of now, reaching Israel, reaching the Arabian and Mediterranean seas when back then, it was drones and dinghies to harass shipping in the Red Sea, shows what catastrophic failures those operations were. The attacks on Yemeni infrastructure? Well it’s still ongoing and in what way has that slowed them down? Yemen is already poor and the people despite that still stand with Palestine. The West cannot wrap their heads around this. They blew it. Not only were the Houthis able to keep going, but they’ve advanced their capabilities massively at the same time. Military failure doesn’t get any bigger than that.
But following this has come the admission that they’ve failed to beat the Houthis and that actually they’re still winning.
When Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh was asked about the US attacks on Yemen, she made the claim:
‘So when it comes to the Houthis, nothing has changed about Operation Prosperity Guardian, that still remains intact and is there to continue to degrade Houthi capabilities, but also to protect commercial shipping and our ships and allied ships and coalition ships that go through the Red Sea and the BAM [Bab-Al-Mandeb Strait].
When it comes to our policy on the Houthis, we never said we were going to take every capability off the map. What we did say is that we were going to continue to work to degrade capabilities and to ensure…upholding the international rules based order and the free flow of commerce through that region.
We continue to be successful in our strikes, [but] again we’re not going to be able to take off the map every capability, but every single time that we conduct a dynamic strike…that further degrades their capabilities.’
Does it though, given you don’t really know where the Houthis military capabilities are, and have failed to put even the slightest dent in their ongoing daily actions, their daily routines of strikes on Red Sea shipping and Israeli targets? It’s a US admission of failure against them frankly, hidden behind typical press secretary double speak, but is nonetheless an admission that the US doesn’t think it can win and this really shouldn’t be a surprise because they’ve tried fighting the Houthis before and got nowhere then either. The aim is not to completely wipe out the Houthis capabilities and that is pretty much because they know it is impossible without knowing where it all is, understatement of the year. This is the value of gathering military intelligence and they can’t do it, they’ve tried and failed at that too!
Nevertheless, it seems plans remain afoot to carry on butting heads with the Houthis, but who would bet on the west and Israel against them these days?
Meanwhile, if you hadn’t picked up that story of British and Saudi attempted infiltration of the Houthis to gather intelligence, get all the details of that and some other stories that have sent Israel into complete meltdown in this video recommendation here as your suggested next watch. Please do also hit like, share and subscribe if you haven’t already done so to help support the channel and ensure you don’t miss out on new daily content, all very much appreciated as that is and I’ll hopefully catch you on the next vid. Cheers folks.