And Yemen’s Houthis used our money to go to war against us.
In May 2024, the Biden administration announced that it was providing $220 million in aid to Yemen which the United States had been at war with since the start of that year.
Even while the US Navy was engaged in what the Associated Press would describe next month as the “most intense combat since World War II” with Yemen’s Houthi Jihadists, the U.S. Mission to Yemen boasted of having provided “nearly $5.9 billion” in aid beginning with the Obama administration, of being “the largest donor of humanitarian assistance” and urged that “other donors must join us in stepping up” to fund an Iranian-backed terror group at war with us.
A terror group whose motto, like its Iranian patrons, is “Death to America.”
One arm of the United States government, the Pentagon, was fighting the Houthis, while another arm, the State Department and USAID, were funding them. While Navy personnel on board US Navy vessels had seconds to prepare and counter Houthi strikes, State Department and USAID personnel worked to keep the Houthi’s Hodeidah port open so more “aid” could pass through it. The US Navy was not allowed to strike Hodeidah even though it was the Houthi lifeline for the weapons that the Houthis were using to attack American and other vessels.
The Biden administration had ended President Trump’s support for Saudi action against the Houthis and lavished a fortune on the terrorist areas because terrorist supporters and international groups had falsely claimed that Yemen was suffering from a deadly famine.
Before Islamic terrorist supporters, their leftist allies and international aid groups faked a famine in Gaza to save Hamas, #YemenFamine was trending on social media along with photos of wounded and starving children. Much as in Gaza, there was no famine. Rather the Houthis were seizing international aid which they then resold to create food shortages. The more aid came in, the more the Houthis seized. The fake famine was used to mount an international pressure campaign to end the attacks on the Houthis and send billions of dollars in relief to Yemen.
Massive shipments of urea, a fertilizer also used in explosives, were allowed into Yemen to help grow crops and stop the mythical famine. Even though urea was proscribed, the shipments were not interfered with in the name of ending the famine that wasn’t happening. Along with the urea came ammonium perchlorate which is used in rocket fuel. The rockets being fired at US Navy vessels were fueled by the famine lie. False claims of a famine were a tool of war.
By 2018, over $4 billion in humanitarian aid had poured into Yemen. The UN’s World Food Program, which would later invent and become the loudest voice promoting the Gaza famine hoax, operated 5,000 distribution sites to supposedly aid 10 million people whom it claimed were facing emergency conditions, but could only track 1 in 5 of its food basket allotments. --->READ MORE HERE
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Benjamin Netanyahu is likely missing the days of Genocide Joe Biden, when he had more direct influence over U.S. policy. Still, Trump's surprise deal with Yemen doesn't mean he is abandoning Israel, in fact, he might be setting it loose.
Israeli officials were blindsided on Tuesday as they heard the news reports of U.S. President Donald Trump’s agreement with Ansar Allah (also known as the Houthis). The deal, which will end the American bombing of Yemen in exchange for Ansar Allah ceasing its attacks on American ships in the Red Sea, was brokered by Oman completely without Israel’s knowledge.
It was a clear message that Israel’s position in Washington is not what Benjamin Netanyahu had hoped it would be when he backed Trump’s return against Joe Biden in 2024. Though we should be careful not to make more of this than it is, it is very likely that quite a few people in the Knesset and the Prime Minister’s Office are missing the days of Genocide Joe Biden.
Trump isn’t abandoning Israel
Earlier this week, the former Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren repeated a common Israeli mantra. “In times of crisis, we can receive foreign financial aid and reinforcement of our anti-missile defense,” Oren wrote. “But such measures cannot substitute for Israel defending itself, by itself, against existential dangers.”
This has been a frequent talking point for Israel and its American supporters, usually invoked when they are describing the level of massive military aid the U.S. should, in their view, be giving to Israel. Trump is now putting that standard into practice.
The sycophantic Senate Republican Lindsey Graham seemed to be one of the few members of Congress from either party who understood this.
“I think this is a step in the right direction. I appreciate it. I’m hopeful Iran understands that Iran and the Houthis are the same in our eyes. As to Israel, they don’t need to take any more of this shit from the Houthis or Iran,” Graham said.
While many understood that Trump had taken a step in pursuit of U.S. priorities, at least as he sees them, Graham stood out in understanding that Trump was also taking his now-familiar indifference to what other countries do, allies or enemies, as long as it doesn’t interfere with his own ambitions.
Graham gets that Trump was never bombing Yemen for Israel, but to stop Ansar Allah’s attacks in the Red Sea which were interfering with shipping. Given the effects of his tariffs, which are only just beginning to be felt, Trump wanted to mitigate the significant bump in shipping costs the Ansar Allah attacks had been causing.
Trump is now also concerned about the cost of the bombing. That is reflected less in terms of the financial cost—which is well in excess of a billion dollars just in the past six weeks—than in the supply of munitions. The American forces have dropped more than 2000 bombs on Yemen since Trump escalated the devastating attacks. That many bombs need to be replenished. The carriers and other American military assets that Trump has diverted to the region, both to carry out attacks on Yemen and to threaten Iran, also have to come from somewhere.
American military commanders are concerned that, to maintain these actions, the military will have to divert more resources from the Asian-Pacific region. For the U.S. military, being prepared for what they believe is an upcoming confrontation with China is far more important than Yemen or the imaginary threat of a nuclear Iran.
All of this and more went into the decision to strike a deal with Ansar Allah. But, while many have focused on the fact that the deal does not provide any relief for Israel from attacks from Yemen, most of them overlook the fact that it doesn’t restrain Israel in any way from continuing its attacks either.
Congressional criticism lighter than expected --->READ MORE HERE
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