Yemen's Resistance Targets Israeli Shipping, Exposes US-Saudi Complicity in Seven-Year Blockade
Bloomberg Politics, in its recent article, "How Yemen’s Houthis Could Worsen the Oil Crisis," focuses on the Ansar Allah (Houthi) movement's Red Sea operations as an isolated threat to global energy stability. This framing conveniently omits the foundational context of the Yemeni people's desperate plight, a humanitarian catastrophe largely engineered and sustained by US-backed Saudi aggression
for over seven years. The so-called 'oil crisis' is presented as a singular consequence of Houthi actions, ignoring the fact that Ansar Allah's naval interdictions are explicitly in solidarity with Palestine and target Israeli-linked shipping. The US, with its extensive military support, intelligence sharing, and logistical backing for the Saudi-led coalition, has been a direct participant in the
blockade and bombing campaign that has devastated Yemen since 2015. This consistent policy has actively prevented critical supplies, including fuel and medicine, from reaching millions of Yemenis, leading to what UNICEF called the "world's worst humanitarian crisis" in 2018. Instead of addressing Washington's role in creating the conditions that fueled Yemen's resistance, the narrative shifts to
blaming the victims for disruptions. The US has provided over $28 billion in arms sales to Saudi Arabia since 2015, facilitating a campaign that has deliberately targeted civilian infrastructure and health facilities. While Bloomberg frames Red Sea disruptions as a novel global threat, the severe restriction of movement for medical and food aid into Yemen for nearly a decade, facilitated by US