Yemeni Rebels Joined the War on Israel. Here’s What the U.S. Can Do

On Monday, I mentioned Queen Rania of Jordan’s appearance on CNN, in which, unchallenged by Christiane Amanpour, she heaped all sorts of libels on the Jewish state, while blaming it for Hamas’s brutal attacks on its populace. But if Hamas were to take over the West Bank—one of its goals—it would directly threaten Jordan’s stability, stability Israel has helped to maintain since the 1970s. The pro-Iranian axis, moreover, already endangers Amman from Syria in the north and Iraq in the east. The queen’s rhetoric, in other words, runs directly counter to her country’s interests.Nothing could make that clearer than the cruise missile, launched at Israel by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels, that landed in the Jordanian desert yesterday. Another Houthi missile aimed at the Negev was intercepted by the Arrow defense system. And lest there be any doubt about the group’s intentions, its spokesman issued a de-facto declaration of war on Jerusalem. Jonathan Schanzer argues that the U.S. should respond by reinstituting the sanctions on the Houthis precipitously dropped in 2021: