The US military’s estimate of the cost to construct a pier on the coast of Gaza has risen to $320 million, Reuters reported on Monday.
The estimate is double what the military initially expected the project to cost. The construction has already begun and involves 1,000 US troops operating just off the coast of Gaza, putting them at risk of being targeted, which could lead to a major escalation in the US involvement in Israel’s slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza.
A staging area for the pier has already come under mortar fire. The attack didn’t hurt anyone, and only minor damage was reported, but the incident highlighted the risk of the project.
According to Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS), the $320 million price tag is what it will cost for the US to operate the pier for just 90 days.
“How much will taxpayers be on the hook once – or if – the pier is finally constructed?” he told Reuters. “For every day this mission continues, the price tag goes up and so does the level of risk for the 1,000 deployed troops within range of Hamas’ rockets.”
President Biden ordered the military to construct the pier for aid deliveries instead of pressuring Israel to open more land border crossings, which is by far the most efficient way to get more aid into the Strip. Israel will impose a strict inspection regime on aid shipments coming through the pier, requiring inspections before they’re shipped from Cyprus and again when the aid reaches the shore of Gaza.
According to a report from The Jerusalem Post, the idea to build the pier actually came from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who proposed it to Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides in October. A reporter for Israel’s Kan news said last month that during a meeting of the Knessett’s Foreign Affairs and Security Committee, Netanyahu suggested using the pier to remove Palestinians from Gaza.
What a waste of money. You think Hamas and Palestinians are going to thank the USA?
Thank the USA for what? Supplying the IDF with Baby-buster bombs that have blown up 15,000 Palestinian children?
Yes. If the pier is ever built and used to deliver food, water, and necessities, there will be an outpouring of gratitude heard around the world.
The pier is going to be used to march the Palestinians onto waiting ships to export them to other countries.
Exactly. Since Egypt will not allow genocidal plan to proceede by moving Palestinians to Sinai desert, US can find other willing recipients of Palestinian people.
Israel can and should open land transport, International Criminal Court ordered them so. So much for ICC.
Pier will also facilitate rebuilding Gaza for Israel. It just halpens to be at the end of the new road Israel build cutting Gaza in half, from Israel proper, theough Gaza to Mediterranean.
Why is inspection required at both ends — loading and unloading? Are US and UK not trusted? Of course we know the reason. So Israel can remove “non-allowable ” items such as medical equipment, anesthesia, pain kilkers, diapers and who knows what other things. You see, if Israel removes them, US and UK hands are clean.
There is another road built vertically to separate Rafaa from Khan Younis. Every road is surrounded by a kilometer “buffer” zone. What fior? In order to destroy as much of the city as possible. Unversity, hospitals, residential areas, cemetaries, national archive, libraries, schools, stores,. The entire infrastructure for living.
The objective of removing population has not changed as far as we can see today. US pier if anything will facilitate moving weapons straight into the theater. Cyprus has two British bases, both actually the territory belinging to UK, not Cyprus.
Colonialism is alive and well. Its obituary was written prematurely.
Exactly. Since Egypt will not allow genocidal plan to proceede by moving Palestinians to Sinai desert, US can find other willing recipients of Palestinian people.
Israel can and should open land transport, International Criminal Court ordered them so. So much for ICC.
Pier will also facilitate rebuilding Gaza for Israel. It just halpens to be at the end of the new road Israel build cutting Gaza in half, from Israel proper, theough Gaza to Mediterranean.
Why is inspection required at both ends — loading and unloading? Are US and UK not trusted? Of course we know the reason. So Israel can remove “non-allowable ” items such as medical equipment, anesthesia, pain kilkers, diapers and who knows what other things. You see, if Israel removes them, US and UK hands are clean.
There is another road built vertically to separate Rafaa from Khan Younis. Every road is surrounded by a kilometer “buffer” zone. What fior? In order to destroy as much of the city as possible. Unversity, hospitals, residential areas, cemetaries, national archive, libraries, schools, stores,. The entire infrastructure for living.
The objective of removing population has not changed as far as we can see today. US pier if anything will facilitate moving weapons straight into the theater. Cyprus has two British bases, both actually the territory belinging to UK, not Cyprus.
Colonialism is alive and well. Its obituary was written prematurely.
You’re probably right. But other countries ever refused to take them, and if they sent them to the United States, it’s just a matter of time before they start voting.
Is this a sarcasm?
no. Would you not be grateful? Perhaps I’m using the wrong word?
The US who supplied the money and weapons, the missiles, and everything else to Israel to finish them off?
You outdo yourself every time you make a comment. I can’t believe a chemist can be so utterly fucking dense.
Did the persecuted in Germany and other occupied territories thank Italy for being part of the Axis?
Would a jury of our peers allow this pier expenditure to happen? I’m afraid to ask.
Yeah, but who asked us?
Well…did I ask you? Try to keep up here.
“The estimate is double what the military initially expected the project to cost.”
Is anyone surprised?
I’ll reiterate: this pier is NOT for “aid”, nor is it for expulsion of Palestinians. It is a military logistical pier to replace Israeli ports and airfields once Hezbollah and Iran start bombing those facilities. It is intended to put US troops on the ground in Israel to support Israel in its invasion of Lebanon.
You heard it here first. If I’m wrong, I’m wrong. But I don’t think so. This entire affair was planned by Israel with the full connivance of the US neocons and the Biden administration. They will not stop until there is a total Mid-East war, no matter other analysts may tell you.
The possibility that this pier is just another form of aid to Israel had not crossed my mind. I guess I’m not surprised since it was Bibi’s idea in the first place.
But I consider it unlikely that Biden would be willing to spend American blood to prop up this regime.
Don’t be too sure. He aint’t The captain of the ship.
Correct. And frankly I think he will go along with it, regardless of the election, although he might hope it will happen after the election – which, given the pace of the conflict, it might.
“American blood” means absolutely nothing to politicians, even in an election year. Biden’s only concern is the election, but that won’t stop him from backing Israel to the hilt just as he has Ukraine. He may want to avoid committing large numbers of troops before the election, but he may be calculating that he won’t have to and he may be right given the pace of the conflict. But he’ll commit them afterward no matter whether he wins or loses. And so will Trump – or anyone else who gets elected.
The spilling of American blood may not mean anything to Biden during his second term. But it had some value in his first term. He has emphasized that in both Ukraine and Israel, we are not going to send our own people into battle.
What a waste of taxpayer money for this ridiculous pier…?!
I think of the pier as a symbolic hourglass. Biden would have us believe that when the pair is finished, and he plans to drag it out for as long as possible, the United States will be forced to act by bringing in food water and other necessities. Whether or not he will actually follow through, is a question yet to be answered.
I am sure Israel has plans for that pier becoming an Israeli asset when they settle Gaza
That is the whole point, but it’s being hidden from Westerners. Soros-funded NGOs will immediately go there to start picking up Arabs to send to Europe.
Spending money on “humanitarian piers” while spending more money to give bombs to the country that’s causing the humanitarian crisis in the first place. American foreign policy at its absolute peak of madness.
It’s another version of “We had to destroy the village in order to save it”.
More like an Ethnic Cleansing Pier.
The only good that will come out of this is drawing the IDF pigs into Hamas’s line of fire.
Good luck and good hunting, boyos!
Why can’t 500 trucks a day simply drive into the Gaza zone from Israel ? As the occupying power – it’s Tel Aviv’s responsibility to feed, house, and protect the population of Gaza. That’s international law.
Because Israel refuses to supply even essentials. A war crime
You are assuming that the US & Israel give a rip about international law.
“…Netanyahu suggested using the pier to remove Palestinians from Gaza.”
A reverse Ellis Island, then. Record Palestinians’ names, then ship off those tired, huddled masses yearning to no longer be slaughtered.
When the idiotic project is finished the cost will be over $700 millions and will be totally useless.
This is a stall tactic, allowing thousands more to be slaughtered and starved to death by the Zionist Terrorist in Israel. The pier will allow more Israeli THUGS to control part of Gaza and that’s it.
A great post by Jonathan Cook on what’s coming.
twitter dot com/Jonathan_K_Cook/status/1785268165997371786
Just read that. Everyone should. He’s one hundred percent correct how it will go.
“…during a meeting of the Knessett’s Foreign Affairs and Security Committee, Netanyahu suggested using the pier to remove Palestinians from Gaza.”
The real reason for the pier.
But it’s a moot point … because Israel will soon be gone.
Peace and then piers….
right. because uncle sam is a cool guy
This pier project is suspect. It could be used as pretext to get the US involved military in the fight on the side of Israel. The US could use any attack on the military by any one as an excuse to become military involved in the conflict to assist Israel in its planned genocide of the Palestinians.
“Netanyahu suggested using the pier to remove Palestinians from Gaza.” The real purpose of the pier.
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soo im assuming you guys aren’t big fans of Israel?