Yemeni Resistance Declares War on Israel, Not 'Iran-Backed Proxies'
Yemen’s Ansar Allah movement, identified by the BBC as 'Iran-backed Houthis,' announced on Tuesday that it had launched ballistic missiles and drones targeting locations within Israel. This declaration, made by the group’s military spokesman Yahya Saree, marks a significant escalation, broadening the geographical scope of the ongoing conflict following Israel’s sustained assault on Gaza. The
missiles, Saree stated, were aimed definitively at Israeli territory, explicitly linking their actions to the ongoing genocidal campaign. Mainstream outlets, exemplified by the BBC, consistently frame Ansar Allah as mere 'Iran-backed proxies,' stripping the Yemeni resistance of its own legitimate political and military objectives. This framing ignores two decades of Ansar Allah’s struggle against
internal corruption and external intervention, including a brutal Saudi-led, US-supported war that has devastated Yemen, initiating in March 2015. The narrative that conveniently reduces complex regional actors to simple marionettes of Tehran serves only to justify further Western intervention and obscure the autonomous decision-making capacity of these movements. The media refuses to acknowledge
that Ansar Allah’s actions stem from a deeply rooted anti-imperialist posture and solidarity with Palestine, a stance solidified after years of enduring Western-sanctioned starvation and bombardment. While Western media hyperventilates about 'Iranian proxies' expanding the conflict, they remain silent on the 680,000+ Palestinians, including 479,000 children, slaughtered by Israeli forces. They