Friday, July 11, 2025

Houthi Escalation in the Red Sea

"We are now with grave concern seeing an escalation in the Red Sea with attacks on two commercial ships earlier this week by Ansar Allah, resulting in civilian loss of life and casualties as well as the potential for environmental damage."
United Nations special envoy Hans Grundberg
 
"We remain deeply concerned for the welfare of the crew members in the custody of the Houthis, as well as for those currently unaccounted for."
"Their safety and swift release must be a priority for all involved."
Ellie Shafik, head of intelligence, UK-based maritime risk management company Vanguard Tech 
 
"[The US state department condemns the attacks on the Magic Seas and Eternity C, which] demonstrate the ongoing threat that Iran-backed Houthi rebels pose to freedom of navigation and to regional economic and maritime security."
"The United States has been clear: we will continue to take necessary action to protect freedom of navigation and commercial shipping from Houthi terrorist attacks, which must be condemned by all members of the international community."
U.S. State Department
 
"After several months of calm, the resumption of deplorable attacks in the Red Sea constitutes a renewed violation of international law and freedom of navigation." 
"Innocent seafarers and local populations are the main victims of these attacks and the pollution they cause."
Arsenio Dominguez, secretary-general, International Maritime Organization (IMO)  
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A crew member being rescued on Wednesday age 48 hours afloat. Photograph: Diaplous/Reuters
 
The Yemeni Houthi terrorist group is back at it again, attacking civil shipping in the Red Sea. Two ships were attacked, some of their crews dying in the attack, others taken prisoner, others still rescued from the water after having spent two days clinging to life-support systems. Liberian-flagged Eternity C cargo ship sank on Wednesday with only six of its 25 crew aboard rescued, according to a European naval force in the Mideast.
 
Three of the crew on the Eternity C were killed, the most serious assault by the Houthis in the maritime trade route to date. A route that once had $1 trillion in cargo pass through every year. Houthis targeted over 100 ships with missiles and drones from November of 2023 to December of 2024 in their campaign of support to the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip during the Israel-Hamas conflict.
 
During a brief ceasefire in the war, the Houthi terrorists, supported by the Islamic Republic of Iran, halted their attacks. They were earlier targeted by an intense campaign of weeks of airstrikes ordered by U.S. President Donald Trump. The sinking of the bulk carrier Magic Seas in another earlier attack on Sunday, and then the attack on the Eternity C, raises new concerns relating to the ongoing safety of the Red Sea as a shipping route.  
 
Ships had gradually been returning to the Red Sea following the U.S. airstrikes. Today, Israel launched a series of airstrikes against the Yemeni port of Hudaydah in reprisal against the drones and missiles sent by the Houthi forces into Israel. "Due to the terrorist Houthi regime's use of seaports for its terrorist activities, we urge all those present at these ports to evacuate and stay away from them for your own safety until further notice," IDF Arabic spokesperson Avichay Adraee wrote on X.
 
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 According to the European Union naval mission in the Red Sea, the ship's crew was comprised of 22 sailors, among them 21 Filipinos and one Russian, along with a three-member security team. During the hours-long attack on the ship, three people were killed. The ship had been attacked with rocket-propelled grenades and small arms. Two drones and two drone boats carrying bombs to strike the vessel were later used, sinking the Eternity C, on Wednesday.
 
Like the Magic Seas struck several days earlier, the Eternity C had likely been targeted over its owners conducting business with Israel. Neither vessel had requested an escort from the EU force. While the EU force was still searching for those on board with private industry rescuers, a Houthi military spokesman claimed the attack in a pre-recorded message Wednesday night.  
 
The Eternity C sinking after the attack
The Eternity C sinking after the attack Photograph: Houthi handout/EPA
 
 
 

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Sunday, December 03, 2023

"All Out For Gaza"

"[Jews were] lying [about the attacks]."
"Is it possible that if they are lying about these events and creating a false genocide, it is likely they may have lied about certain details of a previous big genocide [Holocaust] that may have occurred?"
Toronto4Palestine
 
"In the last several days, we have witnessed the active decolonization of Palestinian land led by the Palestinian resistance."
"May the memory of our martyrs continue to guide us on the steadfast path to liberation."
Palestinian Youth Movement 

"The most prolific organizer [of 'pro-Palestinian' solidarity marches in the wake of the October 7 attack on southern Israel] has been the Palestinian Youth Movement, a group active in both the United States and Canada. It was the PYM that marshalled the first wave of celebratory "All Out for Gaza" marches that appeared in all of Canada's major cities in the immediate hours after the October 7 massacres."
"And in the dozens of events held since, the protests have included everything from displays of the swastika to children leading open calls for "intifada" as the "only solution."
Tristin Hopper,  journalist, National Post
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It is well enough known that the terrorist Palestinian group Hamas which governs Gaza orchestrated a savagely sadistic day of slaughter in southern Israel on October 7, when its operatives flooded into Israel at the Gaza border to begin a massacre of Israeli civilians, mass rape of girls and women, killing of infants and children in a sadistic orgy of psychopathic hatred. Then it was revealed unsurprisingly, that Palestinian Islamic Jihad was also involved.

And finally came the realization of ordinary Palestinian civilians opportuning themselves by following the terrorists into the breaches of the separating walls at the border to commit their own atrocities on Jewish families in the border towns, villages and kibbutzim. While Israel has been induced to commit to a temporary ceasefire in the hopes of having at the very least women and child hostages returned to Israel, the plight of a ten-month-old baby, his 4-year-old sibling and their mother gripped the nation.

The three  were to have been returned to Israel in an exchange of hostages for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. Hamas informed Israel they were unable to locate the three. They followed that up with saying they were in the hands of another terror group. And finally, that they were dead. That other group was the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, notorious decades ago for its plane hijacking and murders of Jews. The family, it appeared, died at their hands. Their father, taken hostage separately, was forced to watch a video of his family's death.

Finally, Hamas refused to release any more of the Israeli women, some ten in number along with several children. Speculation is that they are either dead or close to death; the terrorists gang-raped women to death, breaking the pelvic bones of some and others taken hostage for use as 'sex slaves'. None of this happened, however, according to Palestinians in Canada, organizing mass protests in the streets of Canadian cities, accusing Israel of genocide and celebrating the courage of Hamas and others.

Now it has been revealed that affiliates of the PLFP have been directly involved in many "ceasefire" and "stop the genocide" mass rallies clogging Canadian streets. Bearing in mind that Hamas, PIJ and PLFP are listed terrorist groups in Canada. The Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network headquartered in Vancouver and founded by Khaled Barakat, a leader in the PFLP's Central Committee has been actively arranging protests. 

Germany, following Israel's example, listed Samidoun as a terrorist entity amidst a nationwide crackdown on 'pro-Hamas' organizations. German Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser spoke of Samidoun as having an "antisemitic, inhuman world view, particularly repugnant". Yet in Canada the group has achieved federal non-profit status as a charity. In May they posted images of protesters in Vancouver there to affirm "the right of Palestinians to carry out popular and armed struggle to liberate Palestine from the river to the sea".

It has also been busy as a key organizer of Canadian anti-Israel rallies following the very first hours after the October 7 attacks. Former B.C. Civil Liberties Association head Harsha Walia praised the "Palestinians on hang-gliders" responsible for the massacre of over 200 young people attending a musical festival close to the Gaza border, in Israel. Other groups have been organizing waves of "ceasefire" and "stop the genocide" mass rallies.

Social media channels have been rife  with such groups posting open praise for terrorism in the months leading up to October 7, followed by ecstatic celebrations as the initial details of the massacres reached the public. A frequent organizer in the Greater Toronto Area, Toronto4Palestine hailed news of the October 7 terror attacks as acts of "heroic resistance", that "has shaped a new precedent for our national liberation struggle".

And the Palestinian Youth Movement ranks as the most influentially busy of the groups in organizing events publicized as "ceasefire" or "peace" rallies, while at the very same time the group has openly supported Palestinian terrorism; their ultimate goal to see Israel violently destroyed; a carbon copy of the Hamas manifesto of its reason for existence as a death cult.

And the federal government in Ottawa, of Justin Trudeau? Well it hesitates to 'take sides', deploring the horrific atrocities committed by Palestinians against Israeli Jews, while at the same time warning Israel that its response to the constant threats, attacks and this final barbaric episode, must be measured, that the lives of Palestinians must be held as sacrosanct as those of Jews were not.

So no action to stop the constant rallies in support of Hamas and other Palestinian terror groups which fly the flags of fascist terror groups outlawed in Canada (wink-wink), for fear of alienating a large voting bloc. In view of which, Canadians will perhaps eventually get around to asking themselves and then posing the question to their government:  
Why has Canada permitted the importation into the country of people as immigrants, migrants and refugees who bring with them these hateful ideologies, and why are they allowed to air them so aggressively in public?

Oh, right, I plumb forgot! A majority of Canadians has expressed -- through several nationwide polls -- their extreme concerns over the situation of citizens, presuming to be Canadian and expressing and acting on these issues in a morally indefensible way, not reflective of the general Canadian feelings that there are indeed two sides; one a nation of democratic values that upholds universal laws of justice, the other an uncivilized, barbaric rabble for whom crimes against humanity is just business as usual.
"As the morning dawns on 7 October 2023, the resistance is rising throughout occupied Palestine, smashing the siege on Gaza with a comprehensive offensive confronting the occupier by land, air and sea, the resistance fighting to advance return and the liberation of Palestine."
Samidoun Network
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