What a Pathetic Bunch of Cry-Bullies Israel’s Enemies Are

If I had spent a large chunk of the past two years firing missiles into France, at some point I’d expect a missile back. I would know, even in the delirium of my Francophobic violence, that the French would target me for death one day, and what’s more that they would have every right to do so. So what’s with all the wailing and rushing for the fainting couch following Israel’s decapitation of the Houthi terror group? This is a virulently anti-Semitic militia that has been terrorising the Jewish State with bombs and drones for two years straight. Israel’s strike back is not a ‘war crime’, as the moral illiterates of the Israelophobic mob would have you believe – it’s justice.

It was an extraordinary hit. It took place on Thursday. The IDF fired missiles directly into a building in Sanaa, the capital of Yemen, in which the top dogs of the Houthis had gathered. It is now confirmed that the Houthis’ self-styled ‘prime minister of Yemen’, Ahmed Ghaleb Nasser al-Rahawi, was killed. So, it seems, was much of his cabinet. The Saudis, long-time opponents of the Iranian-backed Houthis, believe Rahawi’s foreign minister, justice minister and his ministers for youth, labour and social affairs were taken out, too. Leading Houthis survived, including Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, the supreme commander of this regressive Islamist outfit. But there’s no question: Israel has dealt a devastating blow to the Houthis.

The outrage was instant and idiotic – even by the standards of Israel’s haters. Listening to howls of ‘war crime!’ from the usual quarters in the West, you could be forgiven for thinking IDF troops had stormed the Cabinet Office of some innocent, democratic government and put a bullet in the head of the assembled lawmakers. ‘Israel apparently can wipe out entire governments of
Middle Eastern countries’, opined Mehdi Hasan. Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks frothed that Israel has ‘just murdered [the] prime minister of Yemen and their entire cabinet’. It couldn’t be clearer, he said: Israel is a ‘terrorist state’. Journalist Abby Martin got tens of thousands of retweets when she said Israel can now ‘murder’ literal prime ministers with ‘zero consequences’. If Yemen had ‘killed Netanyahu’, she said – what a striking switch from the word ‘murder’ to the word ‘kill’ – then the ‘nukes would already be flying’.