The Houthi leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi pretended to reveal Israel's secret plans for the region.
According to him, Israel plans to invade some 50 miles into Syria to reach Suwaida, where they will meet with the American "occupiers" who supposedly hold vast swaths of land there. From there they will establish what he says they call
"David's Corridor" to reach the Kurdish sections on the Euphrates.
The ultimate Zionist goal (with the Americans) is to take over Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia, according to al-Houthi.
This is a pattern. Arabs accuse Israel of planning something that no sane Israeli is interested in doing, and then they take credit for dissuading Israel with their might and perseverance when Israel doesn't do what it never planned on doing in the first place.
It started with the rumor of the Mufti of Jerusalem that has never ended - that Jews were planning to demolish the Al Aqsa Mosque and build a new Temple there. This rumor is over a hundred years old, and the Arab masses still believe it, even though Israel could have destroyed Al Aqsa and the rest of the Muslim sites a thousand times over by now. But the reason, we are told, is because clerics tell believers to go there and "defend Al Aqsa."
The Greater Israel rumor is fueled by the crazed claim that the two blue stripes on the Israeli flag symbolize the Nile and the Euphrates - says that Israel plans to expand to encompass most of the Middle East. Israel having given back land it controlled for peace is not proof the accusation is wrong - it is merely proof that Israel makes tactical moves to make it look like it wants peace when its real goals of domination are obvious.
Or the perennial favorite that Israel is "Judaizing" Jerusalem. In fact, Israel protects Muslim archaeological treasures and has discovered and preserved some important ones in Jerusalem.
No rumor is too bizarre for the Arab antisemitic world not to believe. Israel controls the weather! Israel has weaponized viruses to sicken Muslims! Israel sends Palestinians
chewing gum that will make them sex-crazed! Israel steals organs from dead Palestinians! Israel has a weapon that vaporizes Gaza civilians!
When the rumors don't pan out, that proves not only that the strong Arab world can stop these plans, but also that the Jews are too weak and frightened to implement them fully.
After all, the thinking goes, if the Arabs had this power they wouldn't hesitate to commit genocide on the Jews; when the Jews don't do the same to Arabs there must be a logical reason that fits in with their projection.