A new US-run pier off Gaza could help deliver 2 million meals a day – but it comes with security risks
A new US-run pier off Gaza could help deliver 2 million meals a day – but it comes with security risks
This isn’t the first time the US military has turned to building a pier to help reach people during times of war or other crises.
*U.S. Military delivers meals to Palestinians.*
*IDF shoots Palestinians leaving with their meals using U.S.-delivered weapons.*
America: "We're helping!"
I read America's voice as Ralph Wigum. Which feels about right given our braindead approach to this war.
There's part of WW2 I didn't know about until I visited the Holocaust memorial/museum in DC--that Germany tried to deport the Jewish people first, which led to the US Congress voting against offering refuge to 20,000 Jewish children that could have been sent to the US. This is just one example of shit I wished I would have learned in school.
That action of denying asylum during WW2 came to mind immediately when I think about how poor our track record continues to stand when it comes to offering enough refuge to people blatantly (US Afghanistan exit), or via back-channels (Gaza), affected by our foreign policy choices.
The US could at any point have assisted with getting aid into Gaza over land. All they'd need to do is tell Israel to back off and lift their blockade.
Instead this gives a US base in Gaza. Obviously we are going to take this option.
All they needed to do is tell Israel
The feds can't force Texas to stop shooting migrants you think they can force Israel to stop doing anything they're set on?
We could have also put our foot down and refused to give Israel any more weapons but nah.
IDF might identify it as a Hamas military outpost?
I mean, at least according to the article, the opposite
Let me help you:
the pier could become a target for Hamas or other Iranian-backed proxy groups in Gaza or elsewhere that still have mortar, rockets, drones and other ways to harass or attack the ship.
It also could lead to stampedes for the aid. Twelve people drowned off Gaza’s northern coast trying to retrieve food from the Mediterranean Sea on March 26, 2024.
thanks, didn't really need help.
You missed my point. The article is sooo eager to point out that Hamas could attack, they're forgetting that the IDF could as well. And in more pointed fact, of all the attacks on aid convoys.... and aid camps and anything associated with relief... it's been IDF. including the "stampede" that was caused by Israeli tanks opening fire and running over civilians. details.
Pay no attention to the millions of starving children....
Biden couldn't even wait for congress to ban aid to Gaza, he had to go around them and do it by executive order so the forced famine could get started.
Fuck any politicians who take AIPAC money to support a genocide.
UNWRA losing funding is catastrophic, they were one of the only functioning aid groups in Gaza and the Biden administrator just tossed them in the dumpster as soon as Israel made a lazy, unsourced claim about a couple of employees who supposedly had connections to Hamas (that UNWRA immediately fired after the baseless accusations were made anyways).
It’s too bad genocide Joe can’t get it through his head that he is directly enabling mass murder. I love when he airdropped supplies into Gaza, I can’t imagine a more humiliating way to avoid the question of why an ally of the US won’t let the US deliver aid to an ongoing genocide with ….trucks …….on pre-existing roads…..
Why did you have to airdrop the aid into Gaza, Biden? Who is stopping you from loading up a bunch of cheap, normal trucks and just driving them into Gaza to directly deliver aid? Why won’t you do anything about the people who are forcing you to deliver aid to a mass starvation event via airdrops?
Maybe let the aid trucks go in?
Fuck Israel.
Yes, just what the world needs. More US military bases on foreign soil!
Glad aid will finally get in. But all of this could have been done half a YEAR ago by just letting trucks in. Gaza is not a remote Pacific island nation with no way in. They are a land strip with land borders. One with a nation they the US has supposedly the best parternship in the world with. The others the US has relations, albeit not as great, but they are supportive to let aid in as well.
The US and Israel are complicit in the genocide and famine. They are functionally one government now and each deserves the totality of blame of the other.