The US military has again removed the pier it built off the coast of Gaza due to seas it cannot handle, and the floating structure will be towed to the Israeli port of Ashdod, the Pentagon announced on Friday.
Since its construction, the pier has barely brought any aid into Gaza, as it’s frequently been suspended due to weather. The pier can only be safely operated in a maximum of 3-foot waves and winds less than approximately 15 miles per hour.
The US is considering not re-installing the pier since the aid shipments that it has delivered to Gaza have not been distributed to starving Palestinians. Aid has piled up at a nearby storage yard as the UN’s World Food Program suspended operations on June 9 after the Israeli attack on Nuiserat that killed over 270 Palestinians and freed four Israeli hostages.
On Saturday, the WFP announced that it started delivering some of the aid, but it’s unclear if the security situation will allow continued distribution. WFP spokeswoman Abeer Etefa told The Associated Press that clearing the storage yard is a one-time operation and that further operations at the pier will be assessed based on the security situation.
The AP report said that the UN is investigating whether or not the US-built pier was used in the Nuiserat massacre. Video that surfaced online showed an Israeli military helicopter operating near the pier during the operation.
Aid groups have denounced the US construction of the pier as a public relations stunt since the US could have instead pressured Israel to open more land border crossings, which is by far the most efficient way to get aid into Gaza.
Surely, the US can arrange aide as efficiently as they wage war.
One would think so, but apparently not. They've never managed it in my 63 years on this planet.
Imagine if trucks actually ran in bad weather.
OT: But I read that Massie’s wife passed.
How many more expensive "floating political balloon" that are designed not to float in Biden's supply?
They (real rulers) floated a political coup balloon, but so far the Biden family popped it.
Interesting to determine why:
A losing proposition for investors?
The rulers now want Trump?
Netanyahu, Mossad, AIPAC revenge for inadequate asskissing?
The Dems have an even greater more effective evil they want to replace Biden with?
Some in the deep state recognize the insanity of actions/direction that could end life on Earth?
Some truly terrible news about Biden is about to break?
Or, they never noticed the cognitive decline, or it became so obvious that the gaslighting jig of rightwing conspiracy plot was up?
I'll go with 2 & 6. "2" works for the ZioNazis; but Trump's earlier heresies disqualifies his commitment to the War Party. The Epstien tapes would destroy Biden; but then a (1) marketable sub as (2) reliably Zionist, and (3) commited to global hegemony needs to be found. It must be devastating losing so perfect a hor. And extremely doubtful his equal can be found.
??
I’ll offer a few: H Clinton, Pelosi, Schumer. To name a short few, there are certainly more.
Or, they did a collective facepalm and said "Damn, is he really that senile?"
No. These people were definitely covering. Have you seen all the videos at different events and speeches? His cognitive decline has been on full display for a while.
And it has been a joke internationally.
My comment was an attempt at satirical humor.
Sorry. I am especially intense after viewing dead children and grieving parents.
Comedy skits:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SBKQcSfVlck
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ApTyNOXUhSk
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx3NBiQhQxQ
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=A3KFCS1Q4rk
Hilarious.
Some of them are two years old. So only foreign comedians can see the reality but MSNBC, e tal can not? Gaslighters, all.
The pier is an excellent metaphor for the ridiculous the Biden/Blinken foreign policy.
Pentagon Pier should go to museum in DC so people can visit the masterpiece…!
Nah, someone might breathe and it would fall apart.
The pier can only be safely operated in a maximum of 3-foot waves and winds less than approximately 15 miles per hour.
So, like a normal day at our local beach.
If it wasn’t so diabolically evil, I could guffaw at it all.
It’s made out of glass enforced with eggshells.
It was built in a harbor in Wisconsin on Lake Michigan, where a two foot swell is considered fairly calm.
I suspect this gambit was proposed by the Pentagram. They paid to have the thing built in 2007, and it's been so useless that it's only been used once that I can find, for a war game in Honduras in 2013. They probably presented the idea in the hope that Hamas or the IDF would destroy it so they could stop storing the thing.
President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr.: "Folks, We're Americans!!! There's NOTHING we can't do!!!" (*Except build a functional pier off Gaza)
Let Donald Trump build the pier and it will be completed in two weeks, with his name emblazoned on it of course.
And if it’s anything like his other projects, it will be built of materials rejected as too defective for “public housing” and end up with the workers getting stiffed and Trump leaving his “partners” holding the bankruptcy bag.
Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue doesn't look too shabby.
the security situation
Translation: "We're being murdered by the IDF when we try to feed people."