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Attack on Norwegian Tanker Underscores Houthi Threat to Red Sea Shipping — as Biden Administration Bides Its Time

‘What we need is kinetic attacks against Houthi targets in Yemen and IRGC targets in Iran,’ one analyst tells the Sun.

Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Ryan U. Kledzik/U.S. Navy via AP
The USS Carney in the Mediterranean Sea in 2018. Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Ryan U. Kledzik/U.S. Navy via AP
BENNY AVNI
BENNY AVNI

America is yet to put forward a credible non-diplomatic challenge to a major threat to global shipping, as Yemen’s Iranian proxies, the Houthis, claim an attack on a Norwegian tanker, which its apparent faulty intelligence indicated was carrying oil to Israel. 

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BENNY AVNI
BENNY AVNI

Benny Avni is a columnist who has published in the New York Post, WSJOpinion, The Daily Beast, Newsweek, Israel Radio, Ha’Aretz, and others. Once New York Sun, always New York Sun.

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