Subject: Re: WHY does Israel have to wait for
Don't need to and nobody here is proposing that. You just keep bringing it up anyway.

Because they're the ones that are directly attacking the ships. They're the ones against whom direct military force is justified, and has relatively low consequences. So we could eliminate the immediate threat (at least for a while) by directly intervening in the Yemeni civil war and crushing the rebels.

The fact that we're not doing that means that the harassment of global shipping lanes in the Red Sea is not an important enough interest to support a military invasion of Yemen. Which makes it very unlikely that we're willing to "pay" much of a price to eliminate that harassment against Iran, either. Which makes any threat that we will (or have to) take action against Iran without direct provocation pretty empty.