Bombs over Yemen.
On the birthday of our greatest peacemaker the United States is involved in at least three wars.
“We can no longer afford to worship the god of hate or bow before the altar of retaliation. The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever-rising tides of hate. And history is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path of hate.”
—Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence. Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City.
As we start the new year the United States is involved in at least three wars.
Billions of dollars that are urgently needed for schools, affordable housing, healthcare or food for the hungry are instead going to wars in Ukraine, Gaza and now the bombing of Yemen.
Joe Biden is the latest President to drop bombs on Yemen.
Obama and Trump also ordered the bombing of Yemen.
What would Dr. Martin Luther King say?
Biden justifies the bombing of Yemen because of the Houthi attacks on shipping in the Red Sea that is supplying Israel’s war on Gaza.
It is an extension of the war on Gaza, a war that is spiraling out of control, which is what wars often do.
Speaking with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now! Shireen Al-Adeimi, a Yemeni American assistant professor at Michigan State University explains what the Houthi’s intensions are.
And they have been very clear about why they’re doing this, and they are doing this in support of Palestine, in support of the people of Gaza. And they have repeatedly said that all of these attacks toward these ships that are either Israeli or going towards Israel will stop once the Israelis stop their war on Gaza, and specifically, actually, preventing the food and medicine from entering Gaza — so, essentially using a naval blockade in the Red Sea to prevent the blockade against civilians in Gaza. There’s also — last week they announced that this was also in accordance with their obligations under genocide prevention, Article I of genocide prevention, which says that states should have an obligation to prevent genocide. And so that’s what the Houthis have been saying. That’s what Ansar Allah have been saying.
And the U.S. has mobilized troops in the region to defend shipping, global shipping, essentially, and specifically the Israeli economy. So, the coalition they put together, I think it’s called Operation Prosperity Guardian. And so we have more troops, more U.S. presence in the region in the last few weeks in order to protect the waters from these Houthi attacks.
Representative Ro Khanna of California:
