It is not difficult; it is obvious. Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis are tools at the service of Iran's geopolitical designs, one of which is the destruction of the Jewish State, as their leaders repeatedly declare. Neither Hamas is interested in the Palestinians, nor Hezbollah in the Lebanese, nor the Houthis in the Yemenis; on the contrary, they are ready to sacrifice their people for the pleasure of the ayatollahs. In the current situation, after the massacre of October 7, the three have joined forces in their quest to attack Israel daily, putting "their people" in the line of fire.
Hamas, founded in 1987, states in the preamble to its founding charter that its goal is to “destroy Israel” and rejects peace processes leading to an agreement between the parties. Two years after Israel’s full withdrawal from Gaza in 2005, Hamas expelled the legitimate government of the Palestinian Authority and turned the territory into a terrorist den whose sole purpose has been to attack civilian targets in Israel. Millions of dollars that have flowed into the coffers of the Hamas government in Gaza have been used to develop its terrorist infrastructure, abandoning the two million Palestinian residents to their fate. With the aim of sabotaging rapprochement between Jerusalem and Riyadh, Hamas carried out the massacre of October 7 in Israel, kidnapping 255 people, including women and children, initiating a war that Israel never wanted.
Hezbollah, created in 1982 by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard in the midst of the civil war in Lebanon and the military presence of Syria and Israel on the territory, has become the most powerful proxy of Tehran. It intervened in the civil war in Syria to save the genocidal Bashar al-Assad; in Iraq, it supported the Shiite militias; and in Yemen, it supported the Houthis. In 2006, Hezbollah launched an unprovoked war against Israel, taking with it the Lebanese people, who had no desire or reason for such a war, just as it has been doing since October 7. Lebanese politicians implore Hezbollah to stop its attacks, aware that it does not depend on them but on the ayatollahs.
The Houthis, named after the tribe’s leader, Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi, and also known as Ansar Allah—supporters of God—have as their motto: “God is great, death to America, death to Israel, curse on the Jews, and victory for Islam.” In 2014, during the so-called Arab Spring that brought down the long presidency of Ali Abdullah Saleh, the Houthis, backed by Iran, took control of the capital Sana’a and large swathes of the country despite negotiations being held under UN auspices. Saudi Arabia and a coalition of nine countries attacked the Houthis to restore the country’s legitimate government in a war that has left just under half a million dead and plunged Yemen into the worst humanitarian crisis on the planet.
Since October 7, the Houthis have activated a very sophisticated arsenal from a country where there is nothing to attack Israel from 2,000 kilometers away and to attack ships sailing through the Bab al-Manda Strait towards the Suez Canal. Finally, Israel, exercising its right to self-defense, responded to the Houthis' attacks and sent a message that it would react to any aggression on its territory, no matter where it came from.
Easy to understand: three proxies of Tehran drag their countries into wars that only they want, sacrificing their people and carrying out the orders of the supreme leader. The international community, whatever it is, washes its hands and condemns Israel.
This editorial was originally published in Spanish in El Espectador.
