US to set up temporary port on Gaza coast for aid delivery
US to set up temporary port on Gaza coast for aid delivery
In his speech to Congress, President Biden will say a temporary pier will transport supplies from ships to the shore.
Watch it get bombed because “hamas”
That'll be a US military post, and Netenyahu is already on Planck thin ice with the Biden Admin for how much shit this war has put him in stateside, I would not underestimate at all the possibility of a cold war style "incident" sweeping a more compliant Israeli government in if Bibi tried something as spectacularly stupid as to openly attack US military personnel
Oh they won't kill anyone at the post. They'll wait until they're leaving with the food aid they've been given and then kill them.
It's not going to be a US Naval Base. There's no way to do without at least Marines and SPs on the ground and Biden already said no boots on the ground. My money is the Navy dropping it and leaving it
Wouldn't be out of character for them.
I always think people give the US too much credit when they're like "we could end this with a phone call" because things are complex and the US isn't like omnipotent.
And then we just announce we're inventing a new port and fuck you we're using it.
I mean that's not easy either honestly. We dont have "fold up" ports that can handle cargo ships, which is looking like what we need. Its going to take time to get this working.
What we do have though is a stunning amount of logistical expertise in war zones and more cargo planes than fucking god. We sure as shit can be doing no stop aid drops the entire time this port is being built, and we should be.
True, but our 300 or so c130s can’t fly international from the US straight to the Middle East. Granted there’s plenty of US airbases that are closer, but Air drops are likely to come from a naval operation as much as an air operation. Get a fleet positioned defensively with an aircraft carrier that supports something like the C2-A greyhound and then create a constant supply line for air drops while the fleet defends creation of a militarized seaport.
In the meantime, support more airdrops through https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muwaffaq_Salti_Air_Base which I think is the best route for immediate and steady aid. It requires multiple cargo trips to get there and then to Gaza but then now we’re getting into Israel claiming Jordan is “providing support to their enemy”
The thing is: We could end it with the lack of a phone call. All we have to do is nothing. Not send them new weapons, not show up to the UN and veto ceasefire resolutions.
Biden: Alright, you're going to stop this right now.
Netanyahu: No, we're not.
Biden: We'll withdraw all aid. We'll sanction you.
Netanyahu: Lol. You're going to burn your one "ride or die" ally in the middle east? The one that has nukes? We'll stop providing you with intel and assisting you in any "stabilizing" of the region. Maybe I'll give Xi and Putin a call -- I'm sure they'd love us as a friend. Maybe they'll send some experts to "inspect" some of these new toys you sold us, like the F-35.
Biden: ... shit.
UN resolutions are pieces of paper unless a power is willing to actually deploy power in service of it. I don't see Russia or China invading Israel, and nothing is stopping any country from throwing whatever sanctions at Israel they like.
Thank God Biden is actually doing something humane about this. It's infuriating Trump keeps talking about wanting to kill all the Palestinians
Yeah I sincerely hope ol' Joe is done with just the talking and is actually starting the walking with this.
Yeah good ol' genocide Joe is still sending Israel guns and money, he's helping Israel a lot.
Inb4 Israel begins sending in tactical knife murderers to keep killing Palestinians inside the very obvious "this is a safe zone and we fucking mean it this time" that this would represent.
Netenyahu has the choice now to let it fucking go already or to torpedo US Israeli relations by attacking US military personnel.
As though we wouldn't continue giving them unconditional support even if they did attack US military personnel.
Fun fact: That has already happened! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident
Inb4 Israel begins sending in tactical knife murderers to keep killing
Oh so now you want Israel to adopt the Palestinian methods of terror?
That was past israel. Israel went from small scale terror attacks to current full Nazi terror attacks
"Look, we don't actually mind the port, but we need the security of knowing Gazans have to walk over a rickety bridge with trap doors trying to avoid being eaten by crocodiles and sharks with friggin laserbeams."
Netenyahu, probably.
20 bucks says Israel uses cluster munitions to hit the beach around the temporary port.
That's a weird spelling of stampede.
"Temporary"
Normandy Beach is still littered with Mulberry harbour chunks
Fuck yeah beach landings
There's thousands of trucks filled with food on the border. How about uhhhhh
Sea deliveries from Greece?
The port will take "a number of weeks" to set up, officials have said, and will be able to receive large ships carrying food, water, medicine and temporary shelters. Initial shipments will arrive via Cyprus, where Israeli security inspections will take place.
So Biden is waiting a few more weeks so everyone in Gaza can starve to death first.
What if I told you they're going to continue with trucks and air drops and add the port too
Lol this has to be satire. Yeah dude Biden is not only directly in charge of these aid deliveries, but he's also personally holding up the trucks so he can delay it for a few more weeks.
Get a fucking grip.
Delaying, dissembling, airy promises, highly publicized symblic actions and sending muppets around to tell people that not voting Biden is the same as voting Trump, have been the Biden's Adminstration techniques to try and contain the damage from their unwavering support for the Genocide by the guys talking and acting the most like Nazis since the actual Nazis.
Even the arguments of the muppets going around trying to excuse this shit boil down to this, plus the texbook whataboutism of claiming that other nations are doing the same thing as America (the "I'm kicking the little kid on the floor because these other guys are doing it too and if I stopped he would still be kicked anyway so I'll keep on doing it" line of 'argument')
The only way for Biden at this point to believably dispel the Nazi-lover image he has show by unwaveringly supporting Israel in its active commiting of a genocide along etnic lines is to not just cut all US support to Israel but to actually sanction Israel, and I mean do it, not just say it, as Biden, whilst smoother at it, is clearly as much a baldface liar as Trump.
Everyone at the side of the water....hmmm doesn't sound like a final solution style genocide. But it does remind me of a magical book with a guy who can fly into burning bushes, walk on wet feet, and get drunk on water. I think he is supposed to teach them how to fish while walking next to water walls or something.
<amphibious assault ship vibes intensify>
How fast could China build a fully functioning hospital during the height of the pandemic?
We can build a port faster than a few weeks
Weren't they like tents with equipment inside?