Dear Pentagon Spokesperson: Yemen's Actions Are Not a Surprise
Yemeni armed forces announced Friday they had launched missiles towards targets in Israeli Occupied Palestine, specifically the port city of Eilat, in response to escalating hostilities against Palestinians. This action, confirmed by military spokesperson Yahya Saree, marks a direct military engagement by Yemen in the broader regional conflict, despite Israeli defense claims of intercepting the
munitions. The New Arab frames this as a Houthi entry into an 'Iran war,' a common mainstream media tactic to isolate and demonize regional actors by linking them solely to Tehran. What is consistently omitted is the four decades of brutal Saudi-led, US-backed war on Yemen, which has killed over 377,000 people and created one of the world's worst humanitarian crises. The US, a direct participant
in aiding the Saudi coalition with intelligence, logistics, and arms sales, spent over 60 billion dollars supporting this war. To then express 'surprise' or frame Yemen's actions as solely Iranian-orchestrated ignores the profound, independent motivations stemming from Yemen’s own experience with Western-backed aggression and its declared solidarity with Palestine. This isn't an 'Iran war' this is
a response from the resistance axis, forged from years of enduring Western imperialism and illegal occupation. Historically, any entity daring to challenge Anglo-American hegemony in the region is immediately branded an 'Iranian proxy,' whether it's Hezbollah, Hamas, or Ansar Allah. Remember the 1967 USS Liberty attack, where Israeli forces deliberately targeted a US intelligence ship, killing 34