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re: Netanyahus' GENOCIDE: BLOCKS Press/AID Agencies/VISAS & STARVES Palestinians
Netanyahu Says 'WORLD Cannot Stop Israel in Gaza - Nobody Will Stop Us’ Netanyahu Vows, Dismissing The Case at The International Court of Justice
Netanyahu SLAMS Brazen Gall of World Court After Allegations of Genocide in Gaza
- Mental Strain, Deepening Risks as Israels' War With Hamas Reaches 100 Days
Middle East Crisis: 'Lights Are Flashing RED’ on Global Cashboard, Says UK Foreign Secretary
--David Cameron says it is hard to think of a time when there has been more danger and volatility in the world when asked about strikes on Houthis
The Guardian 14 JAN 2024
UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron
Key Updates
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu marked 100 days of the war by saying “nobody will stop” Israels’ forces until their “total victory” in Gaza
Two U.N. officials said the flow of commercial goods into Gaza must be resumed because aid agencies alone can no longer provide enough supplies to stem the unfolding humanitarian crisis.
How Houthi Anger With Israel is Reshaping The Middle East Conflict
Houthi fighters chant slogans at the end of their training in Sana’a, Yemen, on 11 January
Attacks on Yemen by the UK and the US have fuelled tensions in a region riven by conflict and violence
Last summer, as Washington tried quietly to coax Saudi Arabia towards the grand bargain of normalisation of its relations with Israel, diplomats in Riyadh were much more focused on securing a different peace deal on its southern borders with one of the most successful insurgencies of *modern times – the one led by the Houthi rebels of Yemen, also known as Ansar Allah, the supporters of God.
With an informal ceasefire holding inside Yemen, and after months of private talks mainly mediated in Oman, on 14 September a Houthi *delegation flew to Riyadh, where they met Prince Khalid bin Salman, the defence minister and brother of the crown prince.
Major differences remained to be settled, but it seemed as if, after decades of various forms of fighting, peace was to come to the country, and largely on the terms dictated by a group that did not really exist as a political force inside Yemen until the early 2000s. Saudi Arabia was finally going to cut its losses on the disastrous offensive it launched in 2015 to push back the Houthis.
Yet 23 days after the Riyadh meeting, Hamas broke through the border with Israel, massacring Israelis and sparking a chain of events that this week left Yemen exposed to a two-day attack mounted from US and British submarines and warships on the Red Sea.
The attacks on Houthi bases in Yemen, as well as ratcheting up the tension in a region already gripped by violence, took Yemen further away from elusive internal peace.
In a country of nuance, two factors are adding to the *complexity of a region riven by conflict: the Houthis’ support for the Palestinian cause, and the way Yemen’s geography helps shape political dynamics. As the writer Iona Craig observes, Yemen is a quintessential example of geopolitics – the place where geography and politics come together.
Yemen itself may be relatively impoverished, but the often unprotected fruits of western globalisation temptingly pass by its shores day and night. Nearly 15% of goods imported into Europe, the Middle East and North Africa are shipped from Asia and the Gulf by sea.
Nearly 21.5% of refined oil and more than 13% of crude oil go through the waterways. Asian imports and exports account for about a quarter of Israels total foreign trade and transit mainly via Red Sea routes.
REPLAY: International Court of Justice hears Israels' response to Gaza genocide accusations
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