The U.S. military finished installing a floating pier for the Gaza Strip on Thursday, with officials poised to begin ferrying badly needed humanitarian aid into the enclave besieged over seven months of intense fighting in the Israel-Hamas war.
The final, overnight construction sets up a complicated delivery process more than two months after U.S. President Joe Biden ordered it to help Palestinians facing starvation as food and other supplies fail to make it in as Israel recently seized the key Rafah border crossing in its push on that southern city on the Egyptian border.
Fraught with logistical, weather and security challenges, the maritime route is designed to bolster the amount of aid getting into the Gaza Strip, but it is not considered a substitute for far cheaper land-based deliveries that aid agencies say are much more sustainable. The boatloads of aid will be deposited at a port facility built by the Israelis just southwest of Gaza City and then distributed by aid groups.
“You take some flour. We made a floating pier for you.”
“And you take 1 billion dollars in arms to kill those you starve to death.”
Don’t be surprised if the U.S. claims they were attacked by Hamas and the U.S. gets dragged into the war.
Not happening, the US genuinely wants nothing to do with Fighting Israel’s bullshit
Never gonna happen.
G.I. Joe is the clown, and you are in his circus. If he doesn’t say it is genocide, then it isn’t genocide, and the Western news media won’t call it a genocide either. The psy-ops continues.
Oh no, now the U.S. is Hamas too!
The US has been Hamas ever since they said they were holding back bombs that might be used in Rafah.
But then decided to send another billion in weapons to Israel.
Their cognitive dissonance is astounding.
As an American, I would just like to say I’m fucking infuriated by how my government is handling this shit.
It’s not that Biden doesn’t give a shit. It’s that Biden agrees with Bibi that the people living in Gaza are Dirty Others who must be kept in line with the threat of force.
Biden is the one who decided, against Congress orders, to hold back the bomb shipment. The GOP was actively drafting legislation to push them out over his head when he allowed it through trying to skip becoming a Republican talking point… but I really wish he didn’t capitulate to the GOP’s desires so easily.
I don’t agree.
I think this is honestly just the typical boomer “back Israel to the hilt because Jewish people got absolutely fucked by the Holocaust”, while simultaneously flat out ignoring the fact that Israel != all Jewish people.
I’d at it’s more 'there are two regional powers here, Israel and Iran. The more aid we give Israel the easier it makes Iran"
And that zero-sum game thinking is idiotic.
Frankly, if we (read: mainly the US and the UK) made amends with Iran (and I know precisely how enormous of a conditional statement that is), and successfully ameliorate and rationalize their policy towards Israel (i.e. convince them to call off their own frankly genocidal policy towards Israel), that could be the the start of the path towards a much more robust peace in the middle east. It’ll likely take several generations to mellow things to a truly sustainable and reasonable level. But something like that might, I believe, be the start of the path to lasting peace in the Middle East - or at the very least, significantly diminished violence and conflict.
Joe Biden is a Zionist, he has admitted this. He loves Israel more than America. Look how he is trashing America’s image for Israeli nationalism. The Israeli government considers Palestinians subhuman. I wonder if Genocide Joe considers them subhuman as well.
There have been images of aid being unloaded onto the piers for over a week.
It’s not like they would wait for it to be 100% to start unloading flour and socks. The last touches were probably to secure the offloading of heavier and/or specialized equipment.
I hope everyone understands that this entire project is a facade, designed to provide Biden and his administration with a hook on which they can hang claims of deniability without actually meaningfully hampering Israel’s genocide campaign.
the aid trucks will be unloaded on the shore in an area secured by Israeli forces […] Israeli forces will be in charge of security on the shore
Right … those same Israeli forces that have refused to let aid trucks into Gaza, have refused to let aid trucks move through Gaza, who have let Israelis loot burn and destroy aid trucks, who have deliberately and repeatedly targeted aid trucks and aid workers, repeatedly killing them? Those Israeli forces? I’m sure this’ll be fine …
