Timidity has never been a successful Mideast strategy, which is why Israeli jets struck the Yemeni port of Hodeidah Saturday, igniting a Houthi stronghold whence the Iranian-backed terror organization gets most of its arms and conducts lucrative oil smuggling. Operation Long Arm, 1,100 miles away from Israel, is the opposite of America’s pin-prick strikes on the Houthi chokehold on Red Sea shipping. They have become a “clear failure.”