Ces lointains houthis - 22/01/2024
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00:11 The tools, formerly known as Ansar Allah,
00:14 draw the attention of the Arab world
00:17 because of their attacks against ships in the Red Sea
00:20 as part of the pressure they exert against Israel.
00:23 In recent years, this group has appeared in the news
00:26 by taking over Sanaa, the capital of Yemen,
00:29 and leading the fight against the Arab coalition.
00:32 It is clear that with these actions against Israel and its American ally,
00:36 the tools have raised their visibility in the Palestinian territories.
00:40 Some prayers were heard for tools,
00:43 preachers in the Gulf congratulated them,
00:46 but without naming them.
00:48 They congratulated those who prevent merchant ships from reaching the Israeli coast,
00:52 those who do not hesitate to take it to the United States and Great Britain.
00:56 This is notable because until now, the Palestinian strategic horizon
01:00 was circumscribed to the Near-Eastern space,
01:03 Egypt, Lebanon, Iraq, Syria.
01:06 Even Palestinian Christians congratulated themselves on the commitment of the tools,
01:10 which are ultimately not well known in the region.
01:13 These testimonies of sympathy, of thanks,
01:15 finally, when you give yourself time to read them,
01:18 you realize that the religious question is almost annexed.
01:21 The idea is simpler, it is that Yemen is an Arab country
01:24 an Arab people, period.
01:26 It is as if there was a kind of imperial necessity,
01:29 an urgency, exceeding the hundreds of kilometers of distance
01:33 between Gaza and the areas held by the rebels.
01:36 So the Western debate on the informal links between the tools and Iran
01:40 is relegated to the background.
01:42 The Palestinian press almost never mentions it.
01:45 And on the tool side, when we read their official media,
01:48 because it is not a movement that is specially poured into freedom of expression,
01:52 the official media, the tools, are standing up
01:55 against the Israeli operation, the drama of the bombings in Gaza,
01:58 but their agenda remains mainly anti-Western.
02:02 A bit like a fusion, two agendas,
02:05 no longer making one agenda,
02:07 those who follow the Palestinian file will be surprised,
02:10 because this support for the tool movement is very specific to the Gaza war,
02:14 during the Intifada 1 and 2,
02:16 then the Israeli retaliation operations,
02:19 we had almost not heard them.
02:21 It is a new parameter that should be added to this near-Eastern scale,
02:26 whether factually or not,
02:29 the tools exist and today they intend to make it known.
02:33 (Music)