Houthi forces seized Perim Island in Bab al-Mandab after government troops withdrew. [1] The Guardian filed the island on Friday. [1] This paper printed the island, not a closed lane. Monday's new island is Hanish. Do not recapture Perim. Perim is not Hormuz.
Mokha was Thursday's port. Hanish is Monday's archipelago. Bab al-Mandab remains a strait, not a closed lane in this file. Salalah's postponement is the Gulf table, not this mouth.
Straits stay open by custom, deterrence, and nobody's interest in closing them. Perim changes the watch, not the water. Ships keep passing until someone says otherwise.
The week's Red Sea file now runs Thursday to Monday: Mokha's port, Perim's island, Hanish's archipelago. Each sits on its own date in this paper. A reader who wants one big seizure has to flatten four days; the map refuses.
Flattened maps mislead; dated entries don't. Monday keeps the dates. The water stays open.
Open waters stay open; Monday's stay. Staying is the update. Dates hold the map.
Dated entries refuse one big seizure; Monday keeps Perim as Friday's island. Mokha was Thursday. Hanish is the other Monday page.
Friday still owns Perim. Monday's named island is Hanish, and this page will not recapture Bab al-Mandab's rock because another archipelago fell. Mokha remains Thursday's port. Ships pass the strait until a file says they do not.
Friday still owns Perim. Monday's named island is Hanish. Mokha remains Thursday's port.
Friday still owns Perim. Monday's named island is Hanish. Ships still pass Bab al-Mandab.
Friday still owns Perim. Monday's named island is Hanish. Ships still pass Bab al-Mandab.
-- PRIYA SHARMA, Delhi