US should add to Israel’s Houthi strikes

In response to a Houthi missile attack on Israel, the Israel Defense Forces launched air strikes against numerous Houthi positions in Yemen. The strikes, which involved dozens of aircraft, sought to destroy Houthi port facilities and storage depots.

There’s a lesson for the United States in this. If Washington wants to build momentum toward ending Houthi missile attacks on and hijackings of international shipping in the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea, it should impose far greater military punishment on the perpetrators. The U.S.’s current responses have been weak, ineffectual, and shaming.

Houthi attacks began shortly after the Hamas invasion of Israel last October. They have cost the global economy tens, if not hundreds, of billions of dollars in additional insurance, travel delays, and

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