Middle East Crisis: Why were Yemen targets chosen for latest strikes?



The UK and US have launched a second round of strikes on targets in Yemen.

Professor Michael Clarke, Sky News’ defence and security analyst, explains the significance of the sites hit.

He says Britain is aiming to “take down the air defences of the Houthis” to make them more “vulnerable”.

Professor Clarke also explains the circumstances around the deaths of 21 Israeli reservists during a military operation in Gaza.

Read more here: https://news.sky.com/story/houthis-and-iranians-have-laid-a-trap-and-the-uk-and-us-have-flown-right-in-13054528

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47 thoughts on “Middle East Crisis: Why were Yemen targets chosen for latest strikes?”

  1. Isn't that means bulling? even that old man has bulling tune.

    All Yamani asking is to stop the killing of innocent Palestinian people by the Israeli occupiers.

    I believe people with any moral values wants that genocide to stop. But the remanence of last century occupiers and colonial powers still bulling and showing the law of the fittest (language of force). The history is also evident that those powers, also saw the worse because of the universal law 'what goes around comes around'.

    Wish, the world could see the demise of all these colonial powers soon, so the world can have a breath of real peace at least.

    All these terrorist organizations like Taliban, Shabab, ISIS, Al-Qaida were created by the MI6, CIA to create the chaos and defaming the real religion. None of these groups ever attack Israel. Rather Israel treated their soldiers and trained them.

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  2. It is an international law, that every country can close their borders which include sea, air and land.

    Why US and UK attacking Yemen now? Yemen just closed their borders for Israelis.

    It is not freedom of navigation, because same US were supporting Saudia when thousands of Yemenis were dying of food and hunger….

    Really sick to these colonial powers thinking the same as they were 100 years ago…

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  3. The pretext to attack Yemen is that it is undermining global trade. What about the challenges to global trade and commodity prices because of the sanctions that the US has imposed upon Russia, Iran, and other countries? It destabilized the entire middle east because of its unjust war against Iraq. Before that it destabalized Far East because of its war against Vietnam. Shame on the west

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  4. We reassure all international shipping companies that their operations in the Red Sea are safe as long as they do not head to the occupied Palestinian ports, and will not serve the countries that participated in the recent aggression against Yemen led by America and Britain.
    resolution

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  5. Let's face it . . . all the American attacks against Iranian military so-called proxies have been calculated to do minimum damage. Empty warehouses. Vacant porta potties. Empty launchers. It's all an Iranian-friendly Biden charade. It seems completely obvious that the strikes are not designed to degrade their ability to attack shipping. Expensive political games. It makes me wonder if the Iranians already have nukes and are holding the Americans at bay with the threat of them.

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  6. Countries have gone to war for economic/trade disputes. Don’t understand why we’re tiptoeing around Iranian proxies in Yemen who are holding the whole world to ransom. Is the West THAT afraid of Islam?

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  7. Over 25k Palestinian people dead & all they care about (us and UK)
    Is international shipping, The myth of Western humanity deid in Gaza. Hypocrisy, double standards, and the recisam is live and kicking.

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  8. Houthis are not graduates of the Defense Academy in UK and USA – those books are good for officers within their school building – this war is on real time zone – Israeli soldiers have to wear 2 diapers before they hit the ground – when they see ghosts running around their diapers become yellow – All these professors are Gold Medalist after reading WW1 and WW2 books – Houthis have read on ground books – USA and Magnificent 7 already implemented those books in Afghanistan- came running home with the books but left their tools behind – Jai Jawan Jai Kissan

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  9. So it wasn’t related to attacks on ships but it was related to air defense of the Houthi’s ??😂😂 Is that not the same thing considering the Houthi’s are responsible 🤣🤣🤣

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  10. Crisis? I wonder why all the Muslim countries are economically and security failures and why they never take responsibility for it and always point an accusing finger at others. After all, 49 countries is not a small number, it's a lot.

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  11. Don’t act like the Houthi’s did this out of nowhere—post the video of Myriam Francois who came to your show and exposed how the Poorest country of Yemen is trying to stop the Palestinian genocide by seizing the ships of Israel/U.S until they stop the blocking of humanitarian aid. It has nothing to do with the West saying Houthis are terrorist and everything to do with the fact that there will be consequences if the U.S goes around bombing random countries. Start caring of human lives rather than your Amazon package on the shop.

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  12. Well has a Fair Agreement on PAYMENT to the YEMENI ISRAELITES for using their waterways? Or are the Multinationals just going to Control all Waterways leading to Suez and Gaza Canals by force?

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