PAYBACK: Israel and U.S. Strike Deep Into Yemen

PJ Media ^ | 05/05/2025 | Stephen Green

[SeekAndFind]

Houthi terrorists got a lucky shot at Israel on Sunday with a missile strike near Ben Gurion Airport, wounding four — and the IDF wasted no time in striking back at prime Houthi-held real estate in Yemen.

Details are still a bit thin, but the videos are... explosive.

Reports vary — between 30 IAF jets and up to 50 in a joint operation with the U.S. — but either way, it was big. Sorting out the discrepancy during a breaking story isn’t easy, and not even the official statements are much help.

A just-released statement from Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu seems to confirm a joint action, but without enough detail to be certain. “I can’t elaborate on all of that," Netanyahu said. "The US, in coordination with us, is also operating against them. It’s not ‘one and done.’”

“We acted before," he said, "we will act in the future too.”

Here's local video just uploaded to X and other platforms, purportedly of a Yemeni "cement factory," hit by today's airstrikes.

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While I don't hold a Ph.D. in How Stuff Burns, that doesn't look to me like the way a cement factory would burn. Cement just kind of sits there, you know? That's its one job. Two, if you count "not burning" separately.

On the flip side, in a war where one side is composed of terrorists who hide their deadly missile stashes in concrete bunkers, a cement factory seems like a legitimate target.

Another legit target is Yemen's port at Hudaydah, right at the top of the list. Israel hit it four times in 2024, starting with a major airstrike in July targeting a power station, an oil refinery, and fuel storage facilities.

[dennisw]

Glad that you are aware of this twelver mythology. Muslim wacko-ism at its best. I will look more at the well that you mention.

[zeestephen]

rellic - I have no idea what you are talking about.

You need to sign up with another web site to comment?

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Incessant signing in cuts into Free Republic traffic.

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Sign in one time - and, just leave it alone.

[SaveFerris]

I did a basic look for the well behind the Jamkaran Mosque

I found some basic pictures but didn’t find any right off that were clear enough - I only made an initial effort on that search - so I may have to try again unless someone beats me to it and finds some great pictures

It’s a large circular monument that maybe(?) has a hole for the well - I may take another shot for pictures - I found a good one but not with the detail that I had hoped for

[dennisw]

With Grok3 you must rephrase queries. So now I get>>>>>

The well that Twelver Shia Muslims pilgrimage to is closely linked to the belief in the Hidden Imam, Muhammad al-Mahdi, who is the twelfth and final Imam in Twelver Shia Islam. According to tradition, after going into occultation (a state of hiddenness to protect him from persecution), the Imam is believed to be in a kind of suspended state and will return at the end of times to bring justice.

One of the most significant pilgrimage sites associated with the Hidden Imam is the Jamkaran Mosque near Qom, Iran. Local belief holds that the twelfth Imam is spiritually present there, and many Shia faithful visit the mosque and its well to pray and drop written requests for help, hoping the Imam will read them and intercede on their behalf.

Another important site is in Samarra, Iraq, where the Hidden Imam is said to have disappeared. There, a cellar or basement-sometimes referred to as the “Gate of Occultation” (Bab-al Ghayba)-is considered sacred, and Shia pilgrims gather to pray for the Imam’s return.

These pilgrimage practices reflect the central doctrines of Occultation (Ghayba) and Return (Raj’a) in Twelver Shia Islam, emphasizing the ongoing spiritual presence and eventual reappearance of the Hidden Imam to establish justice in the world.

Would you like to know more about the rituals performed at these sites or the broader beliefs about the Hidden Imam?

[SaveFerris]

[One of the most significant pilgrimage sites associated with the Hidden Imam is the Jamkaran Mosque near Qom, Iran. Local belief holds that the twelfth Imam is spiritually present there, and many Shia faithful visit the mosque and its well to pray and drop written requests for help, hoping the Imam will read them and intercede on their behalf.]

MUCH better and closer to the truth - I may save that comment

[dennisw]

https://atlasislamica.com/jamkaran-mosque-and-the-wish-fulfilling-well/

[SaveFerris]

Thanks - I’ll check it out

[SaveFerris]

[Arnold Schwarzkopf]

Oh, now you’re making me think of one of my favorite Star Trek TOS ladies

Marianna Hill (nee Marianna Schwarzkopf)

Related to Stormin’ Norman Schwarzkopf

Not that I had a crush on Marianna back in the day

Nope, not at all...

Well...maybe...

Not saying she was just gorgeous in that Star Trek episode

Nope, not at all...

[SaveFerris]

The following will be very confusing to
the transgender Democrats but this
is a REAL WOMAN - unlike Barack Hussein Obama
and his Indonesian cross-dressing tranny-nanny

[Bookshelf]

You state: “How is it good news that we are fighting a war for Israel when Trump clearly said during his campaign that WE WOULD NOT be getting involved in foreign wars, especially in the Middle East. Promises made promises kept, right?”
I feel sure that Jefferson made the same promise.

[Candor7]

[SaveFerris]

I haven’t explored that website and probably won’t get to for a few days - but it seemed like it was claiming the box or something for tossing prayer requests down the well was destroyed (odd)

I find that very hard to believe but would be interesting to know more (including the translations of the words there)

Thanks for posting!

[nuke_road_warrior]

If you are going to fight a war, those four points must be implemented when commiting brave young men to deploy and fight. The US did not implement those actions against North Vietnam. The result was tens of thousands dead and maimed young Americans.

The difference of course was that North Vietnam's ally, the USSR, had nuclear weapons. The Houthi's ally, Iran, doesn't, yet. LBJ was scared spit less that if we used our total ability to damage North Vietnam's ports, transportation infrastructure, etc, the USSR would reply with nukes, thus the "Limited War" in South East Asia. Iran simply cannot be allowed nuclear weapons, ever.

[SunkenCiv]

Houthi terrorists got a lucky shot at Israel on Sunday with a missile strike near Ben Gurion Airport, wounding four... Netanyahu said... "We acted before, we will act in the future too." ... While I don't hold a Ph.D. in How Stuff Burns, that doesn't look to me like the way a cement factory would burn... Another legit target is Yemen's port at Hudaydah...

[af_vet_1981]

And related:

Benny Gantz: 'Palestinian state or withdrawals are delusional'
May 6, 2025

MK Benny Gantz spoke in Ofra today and declared that Israel needed to maintain control of all the land it has taken since the war broke out.

[EQAndyBuzz]

“Promises made promises kept, right?”

Attack American shipping, you directly attack America. So yes, Promises made and promises kept! Attack the American navy in international water, you attack America.

[PIF]

Also have a dud missile or two hit near the 12th Imam’s well. The wacko fundamentalist Ayatollahs will get the message to stop arming the Houthis.

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They will just say - if they say anything - that it was the will of allah, who is supreme and controls everything down to the subatomic level.

Rather hit it with a 2,000 lb bomb, which will utterly destroy the Well and their belief that the 12th Imam will emerge from it when he smells enough blood.

[PIF]

Better find a different AI as that one is so wrong about the 12ers its pitiful.

[Real Cynic No More]

The article is confusing and inaccurate; there's cement and there's concrete; cement is but a component of concrete. I wondered if the attack was on bulk cement, or if it was on structures built with concrete. There is no correction of the misnomer, nor clarification.

[bert]

We aren’t fighting a war for Israel.

We are fighting a war to insure trade lanes through the Red Sea

The bombs should be falling on Bandar Shapur.