The Biden administration is expected to soon announce plans to redesignate Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen as specially designated global terrorists, according to two people familiar with the White House decision and a U.S. official.

The move comes as the Houthis have launched dozens of attacks on commercial vessels in the Red Sea. The group says it has attacked the ships in response to Israel’s military operations in Gaza in the aftermath of Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel.

The three people familiar with the decision were not authorized to comment and requested anonymity to discuss the matter ahead of the expected formal announcement.

  • DarkGamer
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    -26 months ago

    Indeed it can be, a blockade against Israel caused the 6-day war. The difference is, Hamas’ cannot win, they can just poke the bear.

    • Sybil
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      36 months ago

      so Israel started this long before Oct 7

      • DarkGamer
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        06 months ago

        If you want to follow the causal chain all the way back to its source, this conflict started when Arab nationalists started murdering Jews for legally buying land in the Levant.

        • Sybil
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          36 months ago

          it’s a ghetto with military-enforced borders. what would you do to the people keeping you caged?

            • Sybil
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              46 months ago

              your propaganda piece doesn’t relieve the blockade, free the people arrested without trial or charge, or open the border.

              it’s a prison.

            • Sybil
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              26 months ago

              Palestine cannot win through violence.

              insurgencies win by attrition.

            • Sybil
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              16 months ago

              Can I defeat them militarily? If so I’d do that, if I can’t I’d make peace and get the best terms I can

              that just isn’t something i’d do. personally, i’d wage an insurgency. i think anyone who chose to do that would be justified.

        • Sybil
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          16 months ago

          this is deflecting from the blockade that people have been living under with no end in sight. it’s an open air prison: of course they tried to attack their jailers

        • Sybil
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          06 months ago

          if someone tells me they don’t want me around, i don’t stick around