Houthi strikes unconnected to economic crisis

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The Houthis’ actions against Israel are most likely not connected to the years-long economic crisis in Yemen, former Israeli Deputy National Security Advisor Charles David Freilich says.   #Yemen #Houthis

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00:00Yemen is obviously feeling the effects of a profound economic crisis, one of the worst

00:06humanitarian disasters in the world. And I'm just wondering whether that as well is meaning

00:13that Houthis are under domestic pressure for bringing about such misery for the people

00:20that live there.

00:21One would think so and one would hope so, but the Yemeni economic crisis has actually

00:30been going on for many decades and certainly for the last decade. So I don't think it's

00:35directly related to the war. One could make the argument that one of the ways that the

00:41Houthis might want to address it is by directing domestic opinion externally, diverting people's

00:50attention from their domestic difficulties. I don't imagine that that's a significant

00:56reason for what's going on or whether it will have too much of an impact on Yemeni public

01:05opinion.

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