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The ship was sailing from Turkey to India under a British flag and the ship is ultimately owned by a Japanese company. The Israeli company/billionaire is just a major stockholder in the Japanese company. Israel could care less about this ship.
The reason Israel and US will care is because this creates a risk of doing trade with Israel that passes through Suez Canal. This raises the cost of doing business with Israel, and puts US in a difficult position.
Hopefully, but knowing the US they would just redirect anti-piracy units operating in the Indian Ocean to the Red Sea. Or they would begin to arm merchant ships which itself is a big problem, but I doubt the US and Israel care much for international law.
Yemen is in no position to pose any sort of material threat to the United States. But also, why would they? The internationally recognized Republic of Yemen is a close US and Saudi ally, and essentially a puppet state. Further the Houthi movement has no standing navy, even auxiliary craft. What would they even do?
Suez is also the most vulnerable of the waterways in the world and the most important, historically every danger to imperialist control over it was met with swift and heavy handed answer.
The ship was sailing from Turkey to India under a British flag and the ship is ultimately owned by a Japanese company. The Israeli company/billionaire is just a major stockholder in the Japanese company. Israel could care less about this ship.
The reason Israel and US will care is because this creates a risk of doing trade with Israel that passes through Suez Canal. This raises the cost of doing business with Israel, and puts US in a difficult position.
Hopefully, but knowing the US they would just redirect anti-piracy units operating in the Indian Ocean to the Red Sea. Or they would begin to arm merchant ships which itself is a big problem, but I doubt the US and Israel care much for international law.
Even this risks deeper escalation though as Yemen will protect its own interests.
Yemen is in no position to pose any sort of material threat to the United States. But also, why would they? The internationally recognized Republic of Yemen is a close US and Saudi ally, and essentially a puppet state. Further the Houthi movement has no standing navy, even auxiliary craft. What would they even do?
Suez is also the most vulnerable of the waterways in the world and the most important, historically every danger to imperialist control over it was met with swift and heavy handed answer.
Indeed, so it’s hard for US not to respond to this.