Points of Clarity | Parallels Between Hamas and the Houthis?

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• Points of Clarity | Parallels Between Hamas and the Houthis?

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  So the various non-state actors, the militias that have proliferated over in the region over the last four decades are willing to take the kind of consequences, lose human lives, lose territory, lose their arsenal because they have drawn attention to their movements, their causes. They have the Houthis, for example, have a lopsided leverage over international commerce now because of their attacks on shipping.

  Hamas is gaining attention for the Palestinian cause in a way that probably hasn't been focused in over a decade. And so to them, getting the international community involved in their causes is worth the price that they have been paying.