• queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    The Houthis were not attacking all ships. They were only attacking ships connected to Israel, the US got directly involved to defend Israel. Now they’re attacking US and UK ships too, but only because of the unlimited support and defense for Israel.

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      9 months ago

      They were only attacking ships they claim were related to Israel, no one with a brain stem should believe them. We already know for a fact they weren’t.

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        Actually if you do a little reading you’ll find out that they are. Ownership of large vessels is intentionally convoluted so as to lower the tax burden of very wealthy people, so when people without a brain stem see a Marshall Islands flagged ship they say “wElL tHAt a’iNT isRaEL tHEm hOOtiES is atTAcKin uNdiSCRiminiTLikE!!1” but actually, well just check it out below.

        https://suppo.fi/comment/2333753

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          Link is dead so im gonna list the attacks I looked into and still remember.

          So those 2 Russian oil tankers were actually owned by Israel? A few other “connected to Israel” ships I remember were 1 officer on board a UK ship was from Israel and some business guy was a member of the board in the company that owned another ship. The vast majority of ships getting attacked have come from or gone to Saudi Arabia and India.

          They are just doing Somali pirates 2.

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      They don’t get to launch missiles at any ships lol, that’s terrorism regardless of their stated motive.

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      9 months ago

      They literally hit a ship a while back heading to Iran - they “say” they were only targeting ships to Israel but in practice they’re targeting every ship that goes through the area.

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      9 months ago

      Got it, when Houthis attack British civilian ships, it’s the Jews’ fault.

      /s

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        🙄

        It’s the UKs fault for the unlimited support and defense of Israel’s genocide (not “the Jews” but specifically the settler-colonial Zionist entity literally created from the British mandate). We supposedly have a duty under the genocide convention to prevent genocide, after all.

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          The Houthi flag literally displays the words “Curse upon the Jews”. And that flag is 20 years old.

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                And anti-Semitism is not an excuse for genocide.

                The Houthis having problematic views about Jews doesn’t change the fact that their attacks are directly motivated by the genocide. If Israel stops the genocide, the Houthis stop attacking. Simple as.

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                  Hard to believe, considering that Houthis also attacked US vessels in 2016

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                  If Israel stops the genocide, the Houthis stop attacking.

                  That’s a weird way to spell “as soon as Iran stops fighting a proxy war against Western interests, the Houthis stop attacking”

                  The Israeli actions merely provide pretext.