U.S. Congress considers designating the Houthi militia a Terrorist Organization
The U.S. Congress is witnessing moves to restore the Houthis as a terrorist group following the terrorist militia’s attack on Abu Dhabi airport, which was condemned by all Arab and international communities, rejecting the actions of these terrorist groups.
Sen. Ted Cruz and a coalition of Republican foreign policy leaders have introduced new legislation that would reclassify the Houthis as terrorists.
He added: “The Cruz bill would direct President Joe Biden to designate the Houthis and all their affiliates as a terrorist organization within 30 days of passage of the bill”.
The Cruz bill is already supported by some of the leading foreign policy hawks on congress, including Sen. Tom Cotton, Marco Rubio, and Jim Inhofe, among others, and is expected to have more supporters in the coming days.
Designating the Houthis a terrorist group
The chairman of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee, Gregory Meeks, said he would consider reclassifying Houthi militias as a terrorist group.
Meeks said he would consider whether the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen should be reclassified as a terrorist group after a drone attack in Abu Dhabi last week
Meeks, the House of Representatives’ chief foreign policy democrat, told Jewish Insider: “I’m going to look at this very carefully and talk to administration”. He added: “I am very concerned and I condemn in the strongest terms the Houthis, the use of drones and the strikes against the United Arab Emirates. So that’s something we’ll look at”.
“My job is to make sure that humanitarian assistance can continue and make sure that it reaches the people, women, children and men who are not combatants”, Meeks said.
US President Joe Biden said during a lengthy press conference on Wednesday that the designation of the Houthis as terrorists was under consideration.
US Republican Congressman Mike Gallager said that the decision to declassify the Houthis as a terrorist group was a mistake from the start.
The Republican representative told Jewish Insider: “President Joe Biden’s administration has rescinded the designation of the Houthis as a terrorist organization. The Houthis thanked the president for storming the US embassy in Yemen last November and have now fired rockets in Abu Dhabi”.
He added: “The evidence is conclusive.. The president needs to reverse course, recognize reality, and reclassify the Houthis as a terrorist group”.
Houthi terrorist acts
Dr. Oqila Dabishi, director of the French Center for Research and International Policy Analysis, said the terrorist acts carried out by the Houthi militia do not reinforce the regional and American trends that began to emerge after the Biden administration resolved the conflict in Yemen peacefully.
She added that the Houthi terrorist attack in Abu Dhabi will have a reversal of all these trends, in light of Arab and Western condemnation of this attack because it poses a threat to security in the region, especially civilians. The attack also strengthens Tehran’s position that its terrorist arms or proxies may reach anywhere they want.
Such Houthi terrorist acts will affect U.S. allies, and the paper may be invested in the nuclear bargaining.
She noted that the solution is still difficult in the foreseeable future, because the effects of the attack and tension are still overwhelming, but this does not mean that things continue in this direction, and it is better to return to calm on all fronts, stressing that what the Houthi militia is doing is causing the serious deterioration of the humanitarian situation.
