Though Gaza remains at the heart of Israel’s regional aggression, the Red Sea is an increasingly critical theatre in the fighting. This was dramatically illustrated over the past week by violent escalations between Israel and Yemen’s Houthis, who on Friday for the first time hit central Tel Aviv near the US consulate. The Israelis retaliated the following day with their first-ever large-scale air raid on the Yemeni port of Hodeida, bombing oil and gas depots, a power station, and cranes, all of which Israel alleges are used in Houthi military operations. That in turn quickly prompted the Houth…