Yemen’s Ansarallah Show True Grit In Confronting Zio-imperialists

Brecht Jonkers

Dhu al-Hijjah 05, 1446 2025-06-01

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by Brecht Jonkers (Main Stories, Crescent International Vol. 55, No. 4, Dhu al-Hijjah, 1446)

Yemen has once again proved its mettle in combat, as well as shown itself to be deserving of the reputation it has earned as a country of faith, righteousness and resistance against evil.

Since November 2023, under the guidance of Ansarullah, Yemen has courageously stood up against the zionist entity. Over 190 attacks on ships supplying the zionist colony have been registered since then, with at least 40 vessels being hit as punishment for attempting to violate the anti-zionist blockade imposed by Sana‘a.

According to a report by The Economist, freight traffic across the Red Sea had plummeted by as much as 70% by January 2025, which the magazine in typical imperial propaganda style blamed on “Houthi piracy.”

The United States and Britain responded in early 2024 with a campaign of bombing raids on Yemen that, while inflicting further death and carnage on an already war-torn country, proved to be wholly inconsequential in trying to dissuade Yemen from its path. As part of the ominously named “Operation Prosperity Guardian”, the US-led attackers would claim the lives of several hundred Yemenis who had hitherto managed to survive the previous 10 years of Saudi-led invasion. Yemen, however, stood firm and held its ground.

January 2025 saw a temporary lull in the fighting, as Yemen suspended its attacks on the zionist colony and its shipping routes in response to the Gaza ceasefire. As expected, the zionist promises of ceasefire soon turned out to be little more than a ruse, and the genocidal campaign against Palestine continued. In retaliation, Yemen launched a renewed campaign of missile strikes against the Tel Aviv regime starting on March 11.

Donald Trump, who by now had taken up residence in the White House for his second presidential term, quickly showed himself as being just as rabid a zionist as he had been during his first term in office. Four days after Yemen’s resumption of retaliatory strikes on “Israel”, Trump launched a renewed campaign of airstrikes all across Yemen under the name “Operation Rough Rider”. These US attacks were not limited to military targets, and were a last-ditch attempt to try and break the spirit of resistance of the Yemeni people.

One of the most shocking attacks was the one launched on April 17 on Ras Issa oil terminal nearby Hodeidah. It is one of the only operational import and storage facilities for fuel for all of Yemen outside of the Saudi-occupied zones. A fully civilian infrastructure, Ras Issa terminal was attacked at a time when many of its staff were present for the workday, followed up by secondary strikes after paramedics arrived on the scene.

At least 80 people, many of whom were oil terminal workers, were brutally killed and another 150 wounded. The attack also stymied the already severely restricted inflow of necessary fuel for Yemen’s economy and the public sector, including hospitals that are still running. This was an attempt to force a people into submission through starvation and deliberately created shortage: a typical strategy of zionists throughout the decades.

One issue that the US would soon face once again, is the fact that Yemen does not surrender. As Sayyid Abdul-Malik al-Houthi had said in the very beginning of the Saudi-led invasion: “Our surrender is impossible.”

Rather than cave in, Yemen responded to US attacks by declaring all American vessels in the Red Sea to be fair game for retaliatory strikes. The aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman in particular would bear the brunt of Yemeni missile and drone strikes. The carrier was hit several times, eventually being forced into an ignominious retreat while having lost two state-of-the-art fighter bomber planes that officially “fell overboard”. Of particular note here is the fact that Yemeni attacks on US shipping only began after Trump had initiated his bombing campaign, which is crucial to bear in mind when referring to the ceasefire later.

Meanwhile, Yemeni attacks on “Israel” continued unabated. Sayyid al-Houthi revealed during a recent speech that Yemen had launched a total of no fewer than 253 missiles and drones at the zionist entity between March 15 and May 7. Several more have been launched since then, with Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv and the port of Haifa being some of the primary targets. Several major airline companies, including Air France and Lufthansa have suspended their flights to Tel Aviv entirely in response, causing another major economic hit to the zionist colony.

The Yemeni blockade of the Red Sea had already de facto bankrupted the crucial “Israeli” port of Eilat, which remains all but empty and devoid of traffic to this day. On May 19, Yemen added Haifa to the list of embargoed ports, vowing that “vessels calling [in Haifa] will be targeted.” Haifa is located on the northern Mediterranean coastline of occupied Palestine, and it remains to be seen how Yemen will enforce the coastal blockade. However, experience has shown that the mujahideen of Sana‘a do not make idle threats.

By early May, it became clear to the United States that bombing raids on Yemen were leading nowhere. The relentless bombing did result in mass murder, such as in the aforementioned Ras Issa oil port attack and the massacre of at least 68 African migrants in a housing facility in Saada, but gave no strategic advantage to the zionist military agenda. With mediation from Oman, which has often served as a go-between in the past years, Washington and Sana‘a reached a ceasefire agreement rather suddenly.

During a press conference on May 6, Donald Trump announced that US bombing of Yemen would stop “effective immediately”. In typical style, Trump declared victory without going into the details of how the deal constituted a win for the US, as well as saying Yemen showed “a lot of bravery.” Yemen’s chief negotiating diplomat Mohammed Abdulsalam went on record to confirm the ceasefire, detailing “the agreement does not include Israel in any way, shape or form” and that attacks on the zionist occupation would continue. And they have.

The US president celebrated this “art of the deal” by declaring that Yemen “capitulated”, even adding “they will not be blowing up ships anymore, and that was the purpose of what we were doing.” Which, as mentioned before, is erroneous as Yemeni strikes on US ships only began after the US resumed bombing in March. Mainstream media wasn’t fooled by Trump’s declaration of victory either.

The New York Times pointed out that US airstrikes failed to achieve any meaningful military results. Israeli media was even more distraught, with the Times of Israel correctly admitting that Ansarullah is “the biggest victor of the truce”. US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee responded to the zionist outrage by stating that “the US isn’t required to get permission from Israel” in order to sign ceasefire deals, adding that Washington would only respond militarily if American citizens are harmed.

While it remains to be seen how this situation develops, especially with the number of dual nationality US passport holders living in the zionist entity, the Trump regime’s backtracking is a major victory for Yemen.

Far from Trump’s claim of having “achieved the objectives”, the US bombing campaign against Yemen was an abysmal failure from a strategic point of view. The valiant people and government of Yemen continue to strike the zionist colonial outpost at regular intervals in support of Gaza and the Palestinian liberation movement.

Meanwhile, US attacks that have cost so many Yemeni lives, have ceased without achieving any of the results Trump had announced. US shipping in the Red Sea is safe from Yemeni attacks, at least for now, thanks to Ansarallah’s magnanimity. That, however, can change if the White House and Pentagon were to again entertain fantasies of “winning the war against Yemen” on Israel’s behalf.

In an interesting moment of frankness that undoubtly was partially brought about by Yemen’s victory, US Vice President JD Vance admitted in a recent speech that “the era of uncontested US dominance is over.” This marks the first time ever that a senior US official admits to the end of the hegemonic world order, and the arrival of the multipolar system that has arisen in its place.

Yemen, one of the poorest and most war-torn countries on the planet, has stood its ground and shown the world what true courage and honour means. This is a responsibility the Yemenis are ready to carry into the future.