A report from Asia Times in Hong Kong, published on Saturday, confirmed that the United States and Israel have failed to stop the attacks by Yemen’s Ansarullah movement on the Zionist entity and its ships, with President Biden himself acknowledging this failure.
The report stated that “the United States and its allies failed to stop the Yemeni attacks on ships and infrastructure in the Zionist entity.
When US President Joe Biden was asked if the US airstrikes and missile strikes on Yemen were working, he answered bluntly: “When you say ‘working,’ are they stopping the Houthis? No. Are they going to continue? Yes.”
Biden’s admission that the US missile strikes will not stop Yemen from its attacks has been accurate. Yemen faced a murderous bombardment from Saudi Arabia from 2015 to 2023, with the Saudis destroying large parts of the infrastructure in Yemen.
And yet, the Yemenis have maintained the ability to strike Israeli targets. In October 2024, the US military deployed B-2 Spirit bombers to hit what the Pentagon called, “five underground targets.”
Biden is not the only person to say that the US attacks on Yemen have failed. US Vice Admiral George Wikoff, who leads Operation Prosperity Guardian, addressed an audience in Washington, DC from his headquarters in Bahrain in August.
Wikoff said that the United States cannot “find a centralized center of gravity” for the Yemenis, which means that it cannot apply “a classic deterrence policy.” If the United States cannot strike fear into the leadership of the Yemeni government, then it cannot halt the Yemeni attacks on Israeli shipping or infrastructure.
It added: “In other words, Yemeni opposition to the Israeli genocide exceeds the Zaydi community, the Ansarullah movement and the Yemeni government. Even Tawakkol Karman, who received the Nobel Prize for Peace in 2011 and is a critic of the Yemeni government, has been vocal in her criticism of Israel.”
The report further noted that “Ansarullah has, through its operations, managed to completely cripple the Eilat port, causing significant economic losses to the Zionist entity.
“The port, located between Egypt and Jordan, which is the only non-Mediterranean Sea access for Israel, no longer has the level of cargo ships that it had before October 2023 and the private operator of the port has said it is almost bankrupt.”
