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Shipping firms MSC and CMA CGM are latest to suspend passage through Red Sea
Follow up to this story from yesterday.
[IsraelTimes] Two more major shipping firms, Mediterranean Shipping Company and CMA CGM, said on Saturday they were suspending passage through a Red Sea strait vital for global trade after Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
i rebel attacks in the area.

The announcement by Italian-Swiss giant MSC and La Belle France’s CMA CGM follows a similar decision on Friday by two of the world’s largest shipping companies, Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd, in response to a warning by the Iran-backed Iran's Houthi sock puppets
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
 rebels.

The Houthis, who control much of Yemen, said they were targeting vessels to pressure Israel over its war with Hamas
...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
 in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
 Strip.

A CMA CGM vessel with ties to Israel came under attack in the Indian Ocean in November.

The new statements came after a ballistic missile fired by Houthis slammed into a cargo ship, the MSC Palatium III, on Friday in the Red Sea near the strategic Bab el-Mandeb Strait, following another attack only hours earlier that struck the Al Jasrah, setting it ablaze, authorities said.

The two missile attacks escalated a maritime campaign by the Iranian-backed Houthis.

The attacks endanger ships traveling through a vital corridor for cargo and energy shipments for both Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
and Asia from the Suez Canal out to the Indian Ocean.

The Houthis say their attacks aim to end Israel’s war with the Hamas terror group. However,
if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well...
 the links to the ships targeted in the rebel assaults have grown more tenuous as the attacks continue.
Posted by: trailing wife 2023-12-17
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