Israeli ambitions in Bab al-Mandab Strait 1967 - 1995

Abstract

Yemen was and still is strongly present in the agenda of Israeli ambitions because of its strategic location and control of the Bab al-Mandab Strait, which is considered a complex of regional security and a link between East and West. Israel's ambitions were reinforced after the ominous Balfour Declaration in 1917, which gave them an alternative homeland in Palestine. Occupied after centuries of diaspora and wandering, and before the promise was issued, Yemen was one of the countries circulating among the Jews to establish their promised state, due to religious heresies claiming the existence of the Sulaymani Temple in it, and the Israeli presence in Bab al-Mandab dates back to the sixties of the last century, specifically when Britain decided, and on the impact of the blows of the resistance Yemen and the expansion of the size of the commando operations, the departure from Aden and from the southern governorates of Yemen. Before that, Israel had woven the threads of the relationship with the state of Ethiopia, and benefited from it in finding a foothold for it in the southern Red Sea region, by renting Ethiopian islands, followed by attempts to expand and expand to control on the Bab al-Mandab Strait .                                                                                     

        Israel's interest in the situation in Bab al-Mandab, which represents the key to entering the Red Sea in relation to dynastic politics, is not new, as it has always presented itself as the coastal state of that vital region of the world. Not to make any adjustments in the balance of power across the Red Sea so that the Israeli hand remains active in that vital region of the world