Yemen: A permanent front for Israel

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Crescent International

Safar 07, 1446 2024-08-12

Daily News Analysis

by Crescent International

After ten months of slaughtering people in the open-air prison, otherwise known as Gaza, the region’s so-called “strongest” army is not only facing tank shortages, but it has added a permanent regional military problem for itself.

This permanent problem is neither Iran or Lebanon.

It is Yemen.

Many regional experts agree that since the events of October 2023, Yemen has become the most unexpected challenge for apartheid Israel and western imperialism generally.

From October 2023, Crescent International has repeatedly identified the war on Palestine as regional.

Numerous analyses pointed out that the regional war will continue to escalate and that the escalation ladder is controlled by the Axis of Resistance, and not Israel or the US.

The Yemeni headache for Israel presents a very special challenge.

Apart from Iran, Yemen is the only adversary of Israel which is a state entity.

However, unlike Iran, there is societal and political consensus that there must be continuous escalation against Israel as long as the war on Gaza continues.

While at a superficial level, many people assume that once the guns fall silent in Gaza, Israel will get some breathing space from the unprecedented hammering it is receiving.

This conclusion is mere conjecture.

The ongoing events in Palestine have completely reshaped the regional dynamics and created a situation where for the first time in decades, it is Israel’s opponents who frame the development of events.

At the tactical level, the reason Yemen presents a permanent problem for Israel is that by keeping the zionist entity under direct and regular fire, there are minimal military, political, social or economic costs for the Yemenis.

The zionist regime’s military capabilities to handle the Yemeni barrage are largely cosmetic.

A few airstrikes are not going to make the Yemenis backdown.

Their eight-year war with the US-British-French-backed Saudi-Emirati invasion, that also included African and South American mercenaries, clearly demonstrated this.

The Emiratis fled and the Saudis had to beg the Yemenis for a ceasefire.

Israel cannot, for logistical reasons, launch a ground invasion of Yemen and the US is unable to do so out of geopolitical reasons.

Colonel Douglas McGregor, a former Pentagon advisor, claimed in a recent interview that some 70 Israeli and American mercenaries who tried to sneak into Yemen were ambushed and wiped out by the Ansarallah.

The Israeli incursion was picked up by Russian satellite, communicated to Iran which in turn informed the Yemenis, according to Colonel McGregor.

If Washington gets directly involved in a ground war in Yemen, Russia and Iran will quickly create a military quagmire for the US of Vietnam-era proportions.

At the political level, targeting the zionist entity has become part of Yemen’s strategic political identity.

It derives local, regional and global political rewards as a consequence.

Taking into consideration that it is becoming quite clear that Russia will soon arm the Yemenis as an asymmetric response to the US-led proxy war in Ukraine, the Yemeni front is likely to stay active regardless of what happens in Gaza.

If a sustainable ceasefire is achieved in Gaza, the intensity of Yemeni strikes might decrease somewhat, but they are unlikely to end.

The zionist regime and its foreign backers understand that the AnsarAllah-led government of Yemen views the liberation of Palestine as a strategic foreign policy objective.

The zionists and their western backers know that the Yemenis will continue to garner political, military, economic and social power to advance their foreign policy agenda in Palestine.

Thus, Israel and the western regimes will try to sabotage the Yemeni government but success is far from assured.

Sana‘a, on the other hand, understands that the best way to minimize offensive operations targeting its assets is to take the fight to its arch enemy, Israel.

Yemen has demonstrated that it will not hesitate to fight Israel on its own terms.

Their drone strike on Tel Aviv without being detected or intercepted is one of the clearest signs of its capabilities.

Considering that AnsarAllah stands to gain politically and militarily from maintaining ongoing military, political, economic and psychological pressure on Israel, it is safe to conclude that the Yemeni front will remain a permanent challenge for the illegal intruders into Palestine.

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