This is CBSI on the World, Bill Rajo, my colleague and co-host, and we're speaking with David

Daoud of FD about matters of the arms of the octopus while the brain negotiates.

Headlines in these last hours, Greek ship hit by Houthis near Yemen. Crew safe, but vessel sinking. And Israel

launches strikes against Houthi rebels after attack on Liberian bulk carrier in the Red Sea.

So we have a strike on Haudai Dha port of Yemen. We have the Houthis firing missiles again.

And we have no clarity whatsoever about any of this action except for the Houthis are not solved.

David, are the Houthis the new, new Hizbalah?

Now and again, they would be lobbing a rocket into northern Israel to keep everybody unhappy.

That was the way Iran liked it before the war.

It looks like the Houthis are now operating in that fashion.

Are they completely secure in Yemen, not possible to get in there and cut them off from supply?

Well, look, they have a domestic productions capability.

This is something that, you know, I remember Hezboa's former leader,

Hassan Nostrallah, or former Secretary General, or rather, Hassan Nostrullah,

used to mock people about saying, you know,

you think these Yemenis can't produce their own ballistic missile.

Apparently Iran has given them the know-how.

We know that we're Hezbollah trainers throughout the last decade in Yemen,

building up Houthi's capabilities. So they have the ability to produce the weapons and to use them on

their own. They don't need the Iranians necessarily to go through with that. So, you know, that that makes

them a perpetual problem. Now, are they to the level of the threat of Hezbollah? I think they're

there to harass right now. One ballistic missile a week, you know, while occasionally some

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