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Intentional waste of time and money. Complicity at its most craven. It's unforgivable.
A coalition of countries needs to drive aid trucks with armed escort into Gaza. Dare Israel to fucking kill some of their "allies" soldiers instead of shooting children and women who are running away or sleeping.
Agree, but it would be nice if at least one of those is a NATO member country
Egypt won't let them through
No, it's Israel that has been closing the crossings.
Are you saying Egyptian officials or reporters are blatantly lying? Can you give a source for your claim?
Israel has been the one consistently slowing or completely stopping aid since the beginning. This is not a question, Egypt is not the problem here.
Since Israel seized control of the Gazan side of the Rafah crossing on May 7, aid has been blocked, with supplies piling up in Egypt and the Strip teetering close to famine.
[CNN]
Fighting and bombardment continued on the outskirts of the southern Gaza city of Rafah as Israel said the key Kerem Shalom crossing had reopened for aid. [...] The US said that while the crossing was open again, aid could not get through "because of logistical and security concerns" on the ground.
The UN had expressed alarm on Tuesday over what it called Israel's "choking-off" of Gaza's two main aid arteries, after Israeli troops took full control of the Palestinian side of the nearby Rafah crossing with Egypt.
[BBC]
This has been Israel's story since this latest stage of the genocide began back after Oct. 7. They stop tents getting through because "tent poles can be used as weapons".
And just in case people have forgotten, this is what Gaza looks like. You're trying to tell me that it's the Egyptians who are blocking aid? Israel is supposedly this great ally to the West, why are they not letting the needed aid through any of the other three borders they control completely? Having to go through Egypt or build a fucking entire port would indicate that Israel is entirely uncooperative with western aid efforts. Air dropping aid is the kind of thing we've done historically when there is enemy territory preventing us driving it in by land.
Zionists need to understand that there is no hiding what Israel has been doing to Palestinians any longer, the old deflections simply do not work. The genie is out of the bottle.
This is not a question, Egypt is not the problem here
Did you see that picture of Egypt putting down concrete blocks to block their side of the Rafah crossing
Did you read the statements from Egyptian officials that they're keeping the crossing shut, hoping this pressures Israel to retreat?
They wouldn't need this pier if, you know, we stopped funding Israel to continue this genocide.
But Biden will literally never do that...
He's spent 50 years saying he would never hold them accountable for anything if it means even slowing aid down.
Hell, when Obama was prez and Biden was just the VP. biden publicly shit talked Obama when he threatened to cut aid to Israel due to their human rights abuses.
Biden made a big deal about how the only thing that works with Israel is giving them everything they want and holding them accountable would backfire.
Obama was smart enough to not listen, and Israel toned it down.
Joe learned absolutely nothing from that. Or worse, has always known it's bullshit and still does.
I really thought in 2020 I was done playing "is the president honestly this stupid or lying?"
But it looks like we'll keep playing till 2028 at least
Closing border points and instituting a blockade of food is fairly inexpensive, they could and probably would continue to do that without our bombs and shells.
We wasted months not giving them aid to build this pier...
It cost 320 million dollars, and lasted a fucking week.
And Palestinians are still starving to death.
I legitimately don't know if it being such a giant waste of time and money was intentional.
With the shit Biden openly says, it's hard to believe there's not worse shit he's managing not to say. If not, isn't saying whatever horrible pro genocide shit that pops into your head one of the reasons trump is bad?
trump is obviously worse, but running a campaign on that makes a genocide ok won't get a Dem in office.
I legitimately don’t know if it being such a giant waste of time and money was intentional.
If the purpose was to bring aid to the Palestinians, they'd just open the border crossing.
Rather, everything we see is consistent trying to create the appearance of doing something to help, but making sure you don't actually affect the famine.
everything we see is consistent trying to create the appearance of doing something to help, but making sure you don’t
That's the most we get these days. With pretty much any topic.
At most we get some breadcrumbs for optics right before elections, but never any real work towards real solutions.
It's why not paying attention and just voting "blue no matter who" should never be a plan except for one election in a blue moon where something crazy just happened.
This is Trump's 3rd election now, if the DNC can't find a good candidate that can beat Trump and give Dem voters what we want, then we need new people running the DNC.
If the DNC won't change, we need a whole ass new party.
Going along with this bullshit isn't helping anyone.
The absence of evil isn't good. It's just the absence of evil.
We need politicians actually willing to do good things. Hell, it's not even "absence of evil" the good guys are funding genocides these days.
It's just "slightly less evil".
At most we get some breadcrumbs for optics right before elections, but never any real work towards real solutions.
It’s why not paying attention and just voting “blue no matter who” should never be a plan except for one election in a blue moon where something crazy just happened.
I'm voting blue no matter who because I am paying attention to Republicans trying to burn the country to the ground. I'll take half assed non-improvement over malicious self destruction, thanks.
May your self righteousness sit easy with your soul, while the right clicks each ratchet of the Overton window.
Voting ‘blue no matter who’ empowers that action - both with and without of your party.
Then you're just incentivizing Dems to keep the status quo and never actually change anything for the better. This also ensures the Republican party will still exist forever since they're the only alternative for someone who wants to vote but not for Democrats.
if the DNC can’t find a good candidate that can beat Trump
Hell if they don't just tell Biden what he needs to do to win. They must be collecting data that tells them how wildly unpopular Biden's actions are among the people they need to vote.
While I definitely agree with your general sentiment, how do you contend with the 66% of voters who think Israel is justified in this war, and the nearly 40% who think the way it is waged is acceptable? Wouldn't the electoral risk be even more dire if you alienate them?
I'm not asking that rhetorically, I think it's a genuinely hard problem.
Congress voted in favor of munitions aid. The State Department reported inconclusive evidence of war crime. It would be unprecedented for Biden to alter existing contracts without support from one of these branches, and would likely be challenged in the Judiciary Branch in the form of an impeachment hearing for bad faith or personal agenda.
We pay tens of trillions of dollars annually for the most informed State Department in the world. POTUS doesn’t decide based on information outside of our own intelligence, not news, the UN, the ICC, or the ICJ. Biden needs to pressure Blinken for a more thorough investigation, including the most recent “accidents” in civilian occupied areas, to provide a concrete platform for amendment or withdrawal of support.
TL;DR: POTUS doesn’t make decisions on international affairs based on polls.
The money wasn't wasted, it went directly where it was intended for. The pockets of multi billionaire defense contractors.
I legitimately don't know if it being such a giant waste of time and money was intentional
It was either that or colossally incompetent.
Given that it had to go through several rounds of approval before being announced and every independent expert pointed out that it would be much less effective in itself than delivering aid by truck while doing nothing to keep the IDF from controlling it, that's highly unlikely, though.
It's a very transparent PR stunt that they almost certainly knew wouldn't make a dent in the deliberately induced starvation.
When I said "why the fuck didn't 'oceans could be rough' come up as a possibility to them" yesterday, I got a bunch of people defending the U.S. military over this.
I'm curious if the defenders will come back into this thread.
Edit: It's been 10 hours, so I'm guessing the answer is no.
The US military should know this. They should be able to build piers like this while under active fire. This is one of the things we need for a world war style invasion (think WWII d-day)
That's what I said. I was told things like "they wanted to do this fast, so they had to do it this way" and "this was only meant to be temporary."
"Fast" means apparently taking months to build a floating platform.
Both are invalid - sure it needs to be fast - which is why they should practice this. Temporary means they plan to pick it up after practice. They should do yearly drills in different parts of the world (obviously with permission of the host country) just to prove they can.
There's literally no reason I can think of to build a pier in the ocean without a strong storms contingency plan.
Exactly. Either you can tear it down before the storm hits (good weather prediction needed) then rebuild it fast afterwards; or you build it to withstand storms. I guess there is the just scrap it after every storm - but then you need to rebuild it fast and cheap which this wasn't.
Fell apart or was sabotaged?
I would think they work fine everywhere else and defended vigorously. This story sounds like a half truth.
We need more transparency about why it failed.
Yeah man, I was in the Navy on a LHD, shit comes with helicopters and even an amphibious landing craft, and the US pretty much always has one in the area.
There was never a single need for the dock, it was always a stalling tactic.
Like, there is just no valid reason the US ever needs a fucking dock to get equipment/supplies onto the shore.
For fucks sake, we were "air dropping" aid out of airplanes from bomb height like care packages in Call of Duty....
We could have been sitting it down directly into a controlled forward operating base and letting the aid be distributed like civilized people instead of whoever shows up with weapons first gets all of it.
Nothing about any of this has made sense if Biden actually wanted to help and not just make it look like he was helping.
The US military is not this incompetent
The dock was always about being seen to help resolve the humanitarian crisis, but not actually get anyone linked to US policy inanywayshapeorform involved directly on the ground in Gaza.
Like others have said, if the US/Egypt/Arab nations actually wanted to solve the famine? Aid convoy with military escort. “We’re gonna help these people, try and stop us” and let the IDF fafo. Hamas may not play along, but they have and are coordinating with aid agencies all the time for convoys.