Houthis Hit Israel as Red Sea Fears Rise Again; Netanyahu Faces New Blowback

The Houthis hitting Israel mattered as proof that another front had opened at exactly the moment Netanyahu most needed the war to stop getting wider. Right, so the spokesman for the Ansarallah Movement, Yahya Saree has now said the Houthis are entering the Iran war. You might have been wondering what had been keeping them all of this time, they’d announced their readiness some time ago after all. Well in case you had been missing his daily reports from Houthi HQ, he’s happy to update you Houthi forces have therefore carried out their first military operation against Israel since they downed tools at the start of the sick joke of a Gaza ceasefire began last year, using ballistic missiles against military sites in the south, with Israeli reporting they had sirens sounding around Beersheba with a missile allegedly intercepted before it crossed into Israeli territory, assuming there were rockets left with which to do that with. Ansarallah leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi had already been making it perfectly clear that the Houthis were ready to move in support of Iran, and Yahya Saree had already put the warning out in public too: keep widening this war, use the Red Sea for hostile operations, and they were ready to step in directly to block it again, just as they did before. They’ve been biding their time, reminding people periodically that they were at readiness, had not formally stepped in yet, but now they have. The Houthis were not hiding their capability after all, we’ve all seen what they can do, hold off the US and Israel at the same time, keep the Red Sea blockaded with little more than dinghies and drones and then they wheeled out their bigger toys. And now they’ve made their move again. Netanyahu’s problem is that this is now one more front at the exact moment he most needed fewer of them, but he only has himself to blame. He needed the war narrowing. He needed his enemies separated instead of united. He only has himself to blame for starting so much war on so many fronts that one more might now actually break him and Israel itself.