The past year has witnessed a more out in the open proxy war between the two grow in Syria, but the role of both in Yemen has been more obscured: Israel has echoed U.S. charges that Iran supplies Yemen’s Shia Houthi rebels with ballistic missiles capable of hitting Riyadh, while the Shia rebels have accused the “Zionist” Saudis of massacring the civilian population as the kingdom’s covert intelligence sharing alliance with Israel has become public knowledge of late . While the two have waged what is largely up to this point a war of words in Yemen, trading accusations of operating in the shadows, Israel has now openly threatened to intervene off the coast of Yemen if Houthi forces block the vital waterway through which cargo ships bound for Israel pass from Asia. (Click to enlarge) According to a breaking Reuters story , “Israel would deploy its military if […]