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@kbin.social
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    10 months ago

    Taking land to make distance from the people trying to murder them for 70 years. Making a massive security apparatus to protect themselves from the people trying to murder them for 70 years.

    If Arab nationalists and Palestinians weren’t trying to murder Jews, none of this would have happened, they seem addicted to it. This war could be over tomorrow if they released the hostages and surrendered, but clearly they prefer violence against Jews to peace.

    If you want to know why they’re in enclaves and why they don’t have many freedoms, it’s because of all the Jew murdering and refusal to pacify themselves. They want unreasonable unattainable goals, to destroy Israel and take all their land, and they are willing to employ violence until they get it, which means violence forever evidently.

    Choosing violence when you can’t win by violence is a bad idea.

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      10 months ago

      It’s okay to take away freedom from children because their grandparents and a neighbor fought against Israel

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      Israel is the one who took land away and tried to murder people.

      That land was promised to the Palestinians. Israel waged a terrorist campaign against Britain to steal it.

      Israel started this, end of story.

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      >If Arab nationalists and Palestinians weren’t trying to murder Jews,

      the problem isn’t their jewishness, and i know this because israel has muslim, christian, and atheist governmental members.

      the problem is their israeliness.

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      10 months ago

      >Taking land to make distance from the people trying to murder them for 70 years

      why do you think they are trying to murder them? did something happen 74 years ago?