this post was submitted on 22 Feb 2024
96 points (88.1% liked)

World News

38979 readers
2383 users here now

A community for discussing events around the World

Rules:

Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.


Lemmy World Partners

News [email protected]

Politics [email protected]

World Politics [email protected]


Recommendations

For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

"Operations in the Red and Arabian Seas, Bab al-Mandab Strait, and the Gulf of Aden are continuing, escalating, and effective," Abdul Malik al-Houthi added in a televised speech. He gave no details of the submarine weapons.

Ships owned by individuals or entities in Israel, the U.S. and U.K. or sailing under their flags are banned from the Red Sea, Gulf of Aden and Arabian Sea, Thursday's notices said.

"The Humanitarian Operations Center was established in Sanaa to coordinate the safe and peaceful passage of ships and vessels that have no connection to Israel," a senior Houthi official told Reuters on Thursday.

No ships have been sunk nor crew killed during the Houthi campaign. However there are concerns about the fate of the UK-registered Rubymar cargo vessel, which was struck on Feb. 18 and its crew evacuated.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] BombOmOm 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Sounds like we will keep blowing up their ability to attack civilian shipping.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

There's an easy way to end this and it costs nothing in terms of lives and money. Tell Israel to stop.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 8 months ago

And why would Israel listen to that?

[–] Linkerbaan 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

The Houthi blockade lifts the second israel stops their Genocide in Gaza,

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

their official slogan:

God is the Greatest
Death to America
Death to Israel
A Curse Upon the Jews
Victory to Islam

i have a hunch they'll just be happy to see more dead jews

[–] merthyr1831 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Interesting, because they seemed fine with Israeli/allied consumer shipping up until the genocide. it's funny how that works

[–] Linkerbaan 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Proving how much anti-semitsm israel spreading is by using Judaism as a shield for their crimes

[–] SkybreakerEngineer 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)
  1. Not a blockade.
  2. They're going to keep at it as long as they are physically capable
[–] merthyr1831 9 points 8 months ago

So it's only a blockade when white people do it? gotcha.

[–] Linkerbaan 0 points 8 months ago (3 children)

The Houthi's have openly stated that they will lift their blockade whenever israel stops their Genocide.

For more information here's a concise video

[–] BombOmOm 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

In that video, he argues Houthis are shooting ships delivering weapons to Israel. However, basically all of the ships the Houthis attacked were not even heading to or from Israel. Yemen does not have any moral leg to stand on when shooting civilians peaceably trading via the sea.

We will continue to destroy those attacking civilian shipping until they are no longer able to do so.

Edit: The Houthis just this week struck a ship carrying humanitarian aid to Yemen. Fuck the Houthis.

[–] Linkerbaan 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Every target they Houthi's hit so far has been directly related to their claims. Claims that they were not related have been proven false. The recent oil tanker was British. The first big hijacked ship was israeli.

The ship you are talking about had a US flag. Do you see Russian flagged aid trucks going into to Ukraine too?

[–] [email protected] -5 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] Linkerbaan 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

The ship to Iran was American.

The Marshall Islands-flagged vessel is owned by US-listed Star Bulk Carriers Corp.

Massive props to the Houthi's for being consistent in their blockade and not just allowing ships through because it would strategically benefit them.

Shipping companies are extremely secretive about their ownership. They fly one flag, are owned by someone else, but also used by another company that leases them etc.

The fact is: Every ship that has been hit so far did have ties to the countries that the Houthi's are not allowing passage until their Genocide in israel is over.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Of course they "had ties", international shipping ownership and flag choice is absolute chaos. You can justify almost anything to almost any vessel.

Attacking a civilian ship "Once registered in Britain" thousands of miles away from a country you claim to be blockading is absolutely not a valid target it's an obvious war crime.

The defence of this shit undermines the entire opposition to Israel, the moral argument for stopping Israel from killing civilians is very clear but when the people arguing for it most strongly see attacking other civilians as perfectly fine the entire case starts to look like just a convenient cover for anti semetism.

[–] Linkerbaan 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Your argument is like saying that everyone is allowed to just hop over the American border and go everywhere because the are "civilians".

The moment you start doing illegal things you are no longer a "civilian".

Those ships have no right to pass through Yemeni waters. They have been warned in advance. Framing trade conglomerates as "civilians" to defend israel's Genocide is absolutely hilarious.

If you care about civilians go tell israel to stop their Genocide, then Yemen will lift their blockade.

Yemen has not killed a single civilian so far meanwhile America, israel and Britain are killing a child every 10 minutes

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I could line by line this but these are civilians working on a ship, they don't choose anything, especially they don't choose where the ship goes which is international waters not Yemeni waters. The attacks are on ships in international waters

[–] Linkerbaan 4 points 8 months ago

It's directly off the coast of Yemen. You like to pick and choose laws when you like.

But even with your warped standards, the root of this issue is israel not abiding by international law.

If israel doesn't have to then nobody else has to.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That is one garbage Youtube channel. How can you recommend clickbait nonsense like this?

[–] Linkerbaan 1 points 8 months ago

Explain exactly what is garbage. Do you want Yoav Gallant explaining everything?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

For more information here's a concise video

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.