US May Revoke Houthi Terrorist Label If They Stop Red Sea Ship Attacks
www.bloomberg.com
The US said it would consider revoking its recent designation of Yemen’s Houthis as terrorists if the Iran-backed militants cease their shipping attacks in and around the Red Sea.
  • MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml
    27·
    8 months ago

    At this point, they should never stop. Let’s collectively and unapologetically punish capital across the world until capitalism is dead. Then the criminals should be tried in the people’s court and held accountable for their crimes against all of us.

    No amount of damage to shipping can bring back the lives that have been lost.

    • 201dberg@lemmygrad.ml
      16·
      8 months ago

      Nor is any amount of shipping or material goods worth continued deaths. Things can be salvaged or remade. Lives cannot. Life comes before objects. Needs come before wants, food before fun, tools before toys.

  • Sodium_nitride@lemmygrad.ml
    181·
    8 months ago

    The US said it would consider revoking its recent designation of Yemen’s Houthis

    So what exactly is the significance of Ansar Allah not being a designated terrorist?

    Asked by Bloomberg News after the briefing if the US was offering the Houthis a quid pro quo to end their attacks on ships in return for revoking the designation, Lenderking said: “We would certainly study that but not assume it’s an automatic thing.”

    So it’s not even an actual Quid Pro Quo. They will simply consider it.

    Lenderking said deescalation by the Houthis could help restart United Nations-mediated peace talks in Yemen which have been frozen since Oct. 7. The country’s been mired in a civil war for a decade, though there’s been a fragile truce since 2022. The Houthis captured the capital, Sanaa, in 2014 at the start of the war and now control the key Red Sea port of Hodeida. Saudi Arabia, which initially tried to dislodge the Houthis, wants to implement a ceasefire deal it reached with the group last year.

    Consider Ansar Allah’s position, they probably shouldn’t pursue deescalation and should focus on displacing the shell of the “official” yemeni government that still remains. A frozen civil war sounds like an unstable situation.

  • Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml
    13·
    8 months ago

    Since we’re on the topic of Houthis, could anyone knowledgeable please help me with something. I’ve heard that their motto contains “death to Jews” right after “death to Israel”. But I can’t Arabic nor do I trust the Internet enough to take it at face value. Is it true?

    • darkcalling@lemmygrad.ml
      251·
      8 months ago

      I don’t know but I’m not sure anyone is claiming these people are perfect and it doesn’t matter if they do. No one is claiming they’re perfect Marxists and you need to read their theory or go and pledge yourself to their cause. So it doesn’t matter if they’re not perfect. Are they conducting a genocide? No. Are they going to conduct one soon? All signs point to no.

      Their actions matter. That they are trying to stop a genocide. It’s like rooting for the defeat of Russia and the scourging of its people, their absolute destruction and oppression because they have anti-gay laws. Or rooting for the destruction of Hamas because they don’t open gay nightclubs and the zionists do.

      Do not be drawn into pointless debates with liberals who have no historical materialist understanding of history. Zionists are fascists and no amount of Jew hate can change that or justify their colonization and ethnic cleansing of Palestine. The Europeans did the Holocaust, Germans and Poles should have had their land taken for a Jewish state as justice is not the victimizer walking off scott-free while the victim is handed compensation from an uninvolved third party who you victimize to take it from.

      • MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml
        91·
        8 months ago

        Frankly, their praxis is better than that of the rest of the world, who cares what their ideology is when their actions are so obviously effective and aimed at helping the Palestinians. Yemen is taking a beating for these actions too. You don’t get much more principled in your actions than this.

  • atomkarinca@lemmygrad.ml
    101·
    8 months ago

    the port of eilat accounted for 3% of the total shipping before october 7th and they got the land corridor through saudi arabia and jordan replacing that pretty immediately. at this point it’s just imperial arrogance.

    it’s clear that nothing will be able to stop imperialism but violance.

    • KrasnaiaZvezda@lemmygrad.ml
      6·
      8 months ago

      Even if that port doesn’t matter the blockade is still taking the colonialist entity from being along the route between Asia and Europe to being at the tail end of a new and much longer route with smaller throughput.

      Are there as many ships going there now that ships are in smaller supply and the nearby countries could all be served by Chinese/Russian or even their own ships going straight through the Suez? I don’t know the numbers exactly but I doubt it’s something they can just brush off.