Peloni: This is highly recommended reading. Dyer provides a granular review of the Israeli attack on Yemen and explains that this attack has acted to advance the possibility for the US to quickly end the Houthi reign of terror on international shipping and in Yemen. Israel’s assault on Yemen targeted many of the oil storage farms in the Houthi controlled territory, providing a massive logistical quandry for the terror enclave. Should the US choose to act, it could lead to strangling the Houthis into submission. Since the Israeli attack, the US and Britain have already conducted their own followup attack which was clearly inspired by Israel’s strategic coup d’grace. There is a great deal of valuable details shared in this report which also includes the description of the Houthi’s own on site UN supervisory mission.
First into battle.
J.E. Dyer, a retired Naval Intelligence officer, blogs as The Optimistic Conservative.
July 24, 2024
The Israeli Air Force struck a fuel depot in Houthi-controlled territory at the port of Hudaydah, Yemen on 20 July 2024. Al Masirah video via CNN.
Inevitably, emerging events demand comment before moving on to the main story here. The story is worth the telling. And even more so because of the excellent speech PM Netanyahu gave to a joint session of Congress today, and the mobs marauding in the streets of Washington, D.C. outside, pulling down the U.S. flags at Union Station – to replace them with “Palestinian” flags – while shouting “Allahu akbar” and waving the black flag of jihad, or ar-Raya.
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