US military pier starts moving towards Gaza
US military pier starts moving towards Gaza
The U.S. military has started moving a pier towards the Gaza coast, a U.S. official said on Wednesday, one of the last steps before the launch of a maritime port promised by President Joe Biden to speed the flow of humanitarian aid to Palestinians.
The U.S. military opted to pre-assemble the maritime pier at Israeli port of Ashdod earlier this month due to weather conditions at the Gaza site where it will now be installed.
Officials hope the pier can be anchored to the coast of Gaza and aid can start flowing in the coming days.
"Earlier today, components of the temporary pier ... along with military vessels involved in its construction, began moving from the Port of Ashdod towards Gaza, where it will be anchored to the beach to assist in the delivery of international humanitarian aid," a U.S. official said.
It’s kind of ironic they assembled it in Israel.
Wtf is even the fucking point? If we're gonna give Israel the weapons to genocide them with one hand why even bother with this fake bullshit "aid" with the other hand? Is anyone fooled by this?
International politics is complicated. Would you actually rather them just let civilians starve to death as well?
That is what they are already doing by allowing Israel to keep the border crossings closed.
This pier is as useless as letting the civilians starve to death because none of that aid will reach them because Israel only agreed to the port if they also get to dictate what goes through.
ie they built a new a closed on arrival marine aid route that will likely get bombed by the IDF anyway.
We are. By letting the idf control what goes through the port, it will do nothing to help. As such we are letting them starve to death and remain facilitation genocide.
Look man, the problem with arguing with these people is that they are hard stuck. Biden could tell us exactly what the issue is, take his entire staff to Gaza, put on an apron, and begin filling bowls with soup, and people will be like, "HE ISN'T GRABBING A GUN AND FIGHTING BACK"
It'd be funny if it wasn't so tiring and sad.
I play both sides, that way I always come out on top.
As much as I despise lemmy.ml, you passed the ocular patdown. Have an upvote
It so they can export the natural gas they are going to steal from Gaza
There's a nonzero chance Israel bombs the pier "accidentally" and then maybe we'll see some shit.
They settled for a few mil and called it a day
Israel already has the weapons it is using in Gaza. They get rid of the old stock first. Way cheaper to drop them than decommission then. They already have all the weapons they need to obliterate all of Gaza. They have not done so.
USA has the freedom to fly over Israel and airdrop food, build a floating pier to send boats, I suppose with Israel approval, but can't have trucks driven into Gaza. There is a very weird relation going on.
The US, and likely Israel, want no US military on the ground. The risk of an international incident is too high with Israels indescriminate bombing.
Thats why the air drops and the pier exists. Even US soliders driving aid trucks, or maybe especially US soldiers driving aid trucks, would cause huge issues for both countries, even as it would likely save lives overall.
One "accidental" airstrike on a US military aid convoy and you have real shit happening. Not to mention Hamas, fucks that they are, would be glad to kill some Americans if they could.
Its a 70+ yr mess, and ain't no one is solving it unless everyone involved is on board.
Israel wouldn't "accidentally" hit a US aid convoy, they know that would jeopardize military aid. The current gov might be genocidal assholes but they're not that stupid.
Hamas wouldn't just blindly kill Americans, they're also not blindly stupid and they know they'd quickly lose support from younger Americans. Plus that would piss off the Kremlin and they'd get an earful from Iran.
Armed boats and planes are a lot more difficult for Hamas terrorists to hijack and commandeer versus an unescorted slow moving heavy transport truck.
Where are the trucks right now?
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The entire force and best efforts from the United States military took over a month to build a pier and cost millions of dollars? Why the fuck did it take so long and cost so much?
You should have quoted fir the job
Had to get the pain and suffering out first.
This your first encounter with the government?