Analysts: The Houthis and Israel in a battle without decisiveness policy

Occupied Jerusalem- With the passage of two years since the start of the attacks of the Yemeni Ansar Allah group “Houthis”, Israel fails to achieve a strategic resolution of what it calls the “Southern Front”.

The ongoing attacks from Yemen included the launch of dozens of drones and missiles, in a way that showed real weaknesses in the Israeli defense and security system, including the disruption of Eilat airport and its port, and the infrastructure capacity to withstand in front of unconventional threats.

The last days witnessed an unprecedented escalation in the Houthi attacks, as 3 drones were intercepted within half an hour in the regions of Eilat, Dimouna and the Dead Sea, while the sirens of warning in the city of Eilat and the Wadi Araba area in anticipation of any infiltration.

This escalation shows the size of the challenge facing the Israeli occupation army, especially after the traveler hall at Ramon airport was injured by a suicide bomber from Yemen, which resulted in the wounding of 8 people and material damage, without monitoring systems that the plane can classify as “hostile”.

According to Israeli analyzes, the current challenges exceed the mere confrontation of individual attacks, as they are linked to Israel’s relative isolation after stopping American support in the Red Sea, and the difficulty of making decisive strategic decisions amid the accumulation of threats.

On the other hand, the Ansar Allah group benefits from all delay, taking advantage of the Israeli response gaps, which reflects the continuation of the conflict without an end, despite the huge military spending and the intense role of the Israeli Air Force in targeting the Houthi sites in Sanaa and Hodeidah.

Israeli readings and analyzes are reviewing these attacks the reasons why confronting the dangers posed by the Houthis on the southern Israeli front is difficult, while the group continues to use every opportunity to deepen its impact on Israel.

Without decisiveness

“The Houthi group continues to use every opportunity to deepen its impact on Israel, taking advantage of the relative isolation facing the latter after the US support stopped in the Red Sea,” says the Middle East Affairs analyst in the Haaretz newspaper, Tsafi Barayel.

As the UAE and Saudi Arabia did before, Barayel adds, “The United States has stopped its direct military activity,” leaving Israel facing the Houthis alone, making any attempt to expand the circle of targets or launch wide air strikes insufficient to achieve strategic decisiveness.

According to the Israeli analyst, the ongoing attacks of the Houthis show that they are not just an extension of Iran or a regional pressure tool, but rather an independent political and military entity capable of investing any opportunity to achieve internal and external gains, as the Houthis continue to attack goals they considered “Israeli”, which justifies their continuation of work according to their own interests.

Various conflict

In this context, Israel depends – according to Bailer – a strategy similar to the strategy of former US President Joe Biden, dependent on “deterrence and disruption of capabilities”, but it did not achieve its goals, as the strikes against the Houthis did not constitute a real deterrent.

He pointed out that it is sufficient to penetrate one missile or plane for the Israeli air field to prove the Houthi ability to challenge Israel, which makes the conflict different from traditional wars between two army that seek to victory in a specific area.

Barail believes that the Houthis depend on their local resources, benefiting from the war to enhance their influence internally and threaten Israel externally, which makes the military decisiveness far and ensuring their continued activity in the Red Sea for a long time, supported by their capabilities to manufacture missiles and aircraft locally, and invest any opportunity to achieve their regional goals.

In short, according to the Israeli analyst, Tel Aviv found herself facing an independent and strategic entity, not dependent on direct external support, and takes advantage of every delay or hesitation to achieve gains, which makes any vision of a rapid or strategic resolution a long -standing matter in the near future.

Assignment

“Two years after the start of the Houthi attacks, Israel is still facing repeated unrest that threatens its economy and vital infrastructure, with the disruption of airports, ports and digital structure”, which reflects its failure to achieve strategic decisiveness despite the great military spending.

According to Amait, the Houthi attacks cost Israel huge sums without resulting in tangible results, while the Israelis remain forced to resort to frequently safe shelters, and the economy is directly affected by the disruption of ports and vital services.

In addition, Amait adds that “the Houthis depend on large local resources, and they have the ability to stay long,” benefiting from the weakness of the Yemeni state and the lack of external resources allocated to them. This allows them to convert the war into a dual tool: the continued threat to Israel and the enhancement of their political influence internally.

Limited effectiveness

The same reading is adopted by Dr. Michal Yaree, from the University of “Ben Gurion” in Beersheba, as she considers that the main difficulty facing Israel against the Houthis stems from the lack of understanding and nature of the organization.

The Houthi attacks, which sometimes seem “suicide”, says Ya’ari, a specialist in the affairs of the Gulf states – in an interview with the newspaper “The Marker” – that it “does not follow the traditional military logic”, which makes the hypotheses of deterrence and pressure that Israel adopts is limited.

Ya’ari adds that military strikes, including targeting ports and power stations and the assassination of senior officials, did not affect the ability of the Houthis to continue the attacks, stressing that the organization is based on a system of operating different from other organizations such as Hezbollah, which increases the difficulty of dealing with them.

She pointed out that even after waves of Israeli strikes, the land attack on the Houthi areas in Yemen remains a difficult and complex process, given the distance and limited logistical capabilities.

In conclusion, the experiment shows that the Israeli army is facing difficulty in the face of an armed organization with a high resilience, and the ability to exploit every loophole to deepen its impact on Israel, which confirms – according to Ya’ari – that the military decisiveness is far -reaching, and that the Houthi attacks will continue as a key threat to the Israeli economy and infrastructure for a long time.