The Red Sea Taken Hostage

U.S. President Netanyahu addressing the nation’s Congress in 2015.

“We cannot begin in a better cause nor against a weaker foe.” 

Those were Thomas Jefferson’s words in 1784 when faced with the challenge presented by the Barbary pirates off the coast of North Africa. As President two decades later he backed up his words and went to war.

It is easy to draw parallels to today’s situation in the Red Sea. But the Houthis of Yemen are not demanding money, or attacking U.S. ships. They do not want war with the United States.

They are merely asking an end to the blockade against Gaza by Israel, allowing food and medicine to reach the Palestinians. A humble and humanitarian appeal.

Those demands could change into something more politically meaningful in the near future if they succeed. That’s a real possibility. Acquiescing to terrorists is never a good idea.

But that’s exactly what the United States, England, and Europe have done with regard to IIsrael. They allowed terrorism and blackmail to dictate their policies in Palestine and the Middle East. In the process they turned fables into facts and victims into monsters.

Despite its rhetoric, the United States has proven it can not protect the freedom of navigation in the Red Sea because it has surrendered its mind, body, and soul to IIsrael.