Companies are rerouting around South Africa to avoid militia attacks in Yemen in one of the biggest disruptions to world trade since the Covid-19 pandemic
II could marginally accept the term “piracy”, given that the Houthis in North Yemen are not recognized as a country, but …“islamic terrorism”? Really? If this is islamic terrorism, what is Isis and Boko Haram? This is the same kind of trivialization that passes for Israeli political discourse these days, like calling Hamas “worse than Nazis”?
These people are not disrupting shipping to establish a kalifate, they are at best intervening in a political land dispute, at the worst doing the best they can to stop an ongoing genocide.
II could marginally accept the term “piracy”, given that the Houthis in North Yemen are not recognized as a country, but …“islamic terrorism”? Really? If this is islamic terrorism, what is Isis and Boko Haram? This is the same kind of trivialization that passes for Israeli political discourse these days, like calling Hamas “worse than Nazis”?
These people are not disrupting shipping to establish a kalifate, they are at best intervening in a political land dispute, at the worst doing the best they can to stop an ongoing genocide.
Really? What’s the Houthi movement slogan then?