Israel and the United States Are Already Feeling the Weight of Houthi Justice by Hugo Dionísio!
(2024-01-14 at 23:49:59 )

Israel and the United States Are Already Feeling the Weight of Houthi Justice by Hugo Dionísio!

For better or worse, the Houthis are the only political and military force doing anything practical to demand that Israel pay for its acts.

And despite the attack on their territory, we can already say with certainty, that the Ansar Allah movement and the pro-Palestinian resistance, in general, will be strengthened by this event.

Were it not for a rebel movement, made up of poor people living in great hardship, no other country in the region would do anything to bring some moral justice, however little, to this whole process. As they say, whoever has a lot, has the most to lose. Only the poor give what they need and this is a good example of that.

It is even curious that here and there, apart from a few diplomatic and commercial measures, the most serious diplomatic action for Israel has come from outside the continent and the Middle East: South Africas accusation at the International Court of Justice that the state of Israel should be tried for genocide. Of course, the accusation was immediately branded with the very vulgar epithet of "anti-Semitic".

But the Houthis role in the Red Sea has produced absolutely unpredictable and - perhaps unexpected - results for the West. The Red Sea trade route accounts for 12% of global maritime trade and 12% of all oil trade. An important part of the commercial ships that travel between the Indian Ocean and Europe pass through the Red Sea.

Moreover, the importance of this route for Israel is truly decisive. The Port of Eilat essentially lives off this sea route. Disconnecting the port of Eilat from the international routes to Asia not only means that many of the goods that Israel receives from Asia will become more expensive and risk perishing, with all the economic burdens that this entails. But it also means cutting tourism, since the city of Eilat is an important tourist destination in the Middle East, and losing the competitiveness of its exports to the Asian continent.

But in the end, the financial damage might even be surmountable. What would be difficult to overcome would be the fragility in which an effective blockade of the Red Sea crossing would leave Israel.

Let us imagine a likely scenario in which the war fronts multiply and the conflict spreads to other regions (Lebanon, Syria and Yemen). Just as Oman has closed its airspace to military planes to bomb Yemen, a country like Egypt could, in a situation of great pressure and popular pressure, consider closing the Suez Canal to boats that are linked to Israel. It would not be unheard of, as we know. Oman itself has prevented United States military aircraft from passing through, for various reasons.

One of them has to do with a certain neutrality that the sultanate is assuming on the international stage. However, this "neutrality" is also due to the ethnic tensions it has in its territory, which borders Yemen. In any case, leaving the port of Eilat open only to boats coming from the Suez Canal would be strategically fragile.

So, while it cannot be denied that the Houthi naval blockade may be a burden for the other Arab nations that receive their ships at Red Sea ports, the fact is that for none of them the situation is as dramatic as it is for Israel.

Since the goods that Israel receives by sea and from Asia can come from the Red Sea without having to go through the Suez Canal, the port of Eilat is absolutely strategic for the countrys economic stability. And without economic stability, wars can not be won. Even against those who arm themselves with little more than stones and sticks and a few handmade rockets.

In this sense, and in the face of the danger, it did not take long for the United States to try to defend its spearhead in the Middle East, trying to organize an international coalition that they called the "Operation Prosperity Guardian".

The attempt to mask this initiative as something intended to defend the world and the global economy will not have had the intended propaganda effects.

The fact is that, as has been widely reported, many nations did not want to join in - some directly, others directly and indirectly. If, on the one hand, this was a call from the United States, on the other, at the time, the primacy established by the Houthi for the blockade still resonated in minds: only Israeli ships or those in any way linked to that countrys interests are affected.

The refusal of some may have been due to the fear of being associated with defending the interests of the state of Israel, whose image on the international stage was increasingly linked to the bombing of civilians, the bulldozing of cities, the deportation and displacement of entire families from their homes and the summary execution of human beings.

With effort, the United States managed to get its team together. We could not have expected anything other than what happened on January 12th, namely the attack on Yemen and in particular on the Houthi forces.

The event was widely reported in the corporate media as if it were a real victory. An attack, by world powers, one of them one of the biggest military powers on the planet, perpetrated against a depleted people, scarred by hunger and war, is sung about as a historic victory.

But the truth is that the Houthi had already won.

We all remember the messages from Blinken or Biden during their frequent visits to the Zionist state: we can not let the conflict spread to the Middle East, they said.

Well, although this attack avoids the worst, which is to ensure that Israel does not get involved on several fronts, so that it can carry out its plan for Gaza with impunity and calmly, the fact is that, at the moment, a new front of conflict has just been opened, which adds to the other fires that the United States already has in hand, and it is not yet clear how it will end.

The unpredictability of this conflict does not stop there. No matter how much propaganda Uncle Sam can buy, everyone has already realized that the United States and its vassals will go to any lengths to defend Israel, even when it finds itself in an absolutely marginal situation in the face of international law and compliance with the most basic human rights.

With all this, the Houthi have not only managed to make Israel pay a price - still very low - for its campaign against Gaza and for the apartheid it maintains over the Palestinian people, but they have also managed to show the world that for the United States, when it comes to democracy, human rights, crimes against humanity and war crimes, the scales always tip in favor of its hegemonic interests. What they demand and punish some for, they excuse and reward others for.

We can now only hope that The Hague tribunal does its job and avoids being instrumentalized by hegemonic interests, as happened at the International Criminal Court with Putin, Milosevic and many other Africans and Asians, for whom that court is nothing more than a tentacle of the empire. Let us hope that some justice is done.

For the time being, the Houthi have already given us something, demanding a higher price from Israel for their actions, unmasking the nature of United States of American support for Zionism and showing the world, once again, that Western nations arrogate to themselves the right to attack wherever and whenever they want, without any backing in international law, without the mantle of the United Nations, without even having been provoked. Since it was Israel that was provoked.

At least we can see their faces!

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