In Fighting the Houthis, the U.S. and Israel Must Learn from Saudi Arabia’s Failure

On Friday night, a second Houthi missile struck the Tel Aviv area. It landed in a playground, wounding sixteen, although none of them seriously. On Saturday, the U.S carried out more extensive strikes against Houthi bases in Yemen. But these Iran-backed jihadists, Ron Ben-Yishai writes, are committed to “proving to the world that unlike Hizballah, Hamas, and Iran, they remain unscathed and continue to fight in support of Hamas” and expect after the conflict ends “to be recognized as the force that held maritime traffic, including oil trade in the Persian Gulf, in a stranglehold at a cost to the European consumers.”