The Houthis and The Hague - with Nadav Eyal

Call Me Back - with Dan Senor

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🗓️ 13 January 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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In recent days, two big stories have gotten a lot bigger. The U.S. and U.K. have launched air and missile strikes against Houthi targets in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen on Thursday and today, marking a significant response after the U.S. Government warned that this Iran-backed (and Iran armed, trained, and financed) militant/terrorist group would be held responsible for its attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea. But how did the Houthis -- rather than Hezbollah -- find themselves as the primary Iran-backed proxy responding to the Hamas-Israel war? And what does U.S. and U.K. action against them tell us about this war? Is it widening? At the same time, Israel finds itself at the International Court of Justice, having to defend itself againt the charge of committing genocide against the Palestinians, because of Israel's response to Hamas's attempted genocide. Our guest is NADAV EYAL, who joins us from Europe, having just been at the Hague, where he was covering the court proceedings. He is a columnist at Yediiot. Eyal is one of Israel’s leading journalists, and a winner of the Sokolov Prize, Israel’s most prestigious journalism award. Eyal has been covering Middle-Eastern and international politics for the last two decades for Israeli radio, print and television news. He received a master’s degree from the London School of Economics and a law degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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0:00.0	South Africa said yesterday, more than a million people were ordered to leave their homes immediately
0:06.7	and with no warning. And today an attorney for the Israeli Justice Department
0:12.1	said the Israelis have notified the
0:15.0	Palestinians in northern Gaza where to evacuate and when to evacuate three weeks
0:21.1	before the ground operation, so they will have enough time to evacuate down south.
0:28.0	So these are not factual errors.
0:30.7	This is basically misleading the court and trying to use the court as a weapon for what?
0:36.9	To achieve a Hamas victory. It is Friday, January 12th at 11 p.m. shortly after news broke of new military strikes in
0:58.7	Yemen by the U.S. and the UK.
1:01.4	It is 6 a.m. on Saturday, January 13th in Israel. In recent days two big
1:08.7	stories have gotten a lot bigger. In the Middle East, the U.S. and the UK, as I mentioned, launched air and
1:15.2	missile strikes against Huti targets in the Huti-controlled areas of Yemen on Thursday
1:21.6	and today, marking a significant response after the US government warned
1:27.1	that this Iranian armed trained, financed, supervised militant group, the Hutis, would be held responsible for its attacks
1:36.7	on commercial shipping in the Red Sea, which has incredibly disruptive impact on the global economy.
1:45.0	Non-operational partners working and supporting this U.S. UK operation
1:51.0	include Australia, Canada and the Netherlands and Bahrain.
1:57.0	Interestingly, laying low for now, seem to be the Saudis and the Emirates.
2:01.8	They are not officially part of this operation in any capacity.
2:05.6	The Hutis are a Shiite Islamist militia or terrorist organization whose namesake leadership
2:11.3	is drawn largely from the Huti tribe, their religious leader, has the same name.
2:16.0	It emerged as an opposition movement to then Yemen President Ali Abdullah Sala, who they accused of corruption, and being backed by Saudi Arabia and the U.S.
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