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US Gaza aid pier to be permanently dismantled after operating for just 20 days – reports

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US Gaza aid pier to be permanently dismantled after operating for just 20 days – reports

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A quarter of a billion well spent /S
- Holy shit it was that expensive? Some defense contractor got a new yacht, I'm sure
  
  Years ago I attended a friend's sister's wedding who was marrying the son of a defense contractor from Houston in Vegas. This motherfucker rented out multiple conference rooms at Paris for the ceremony and reception, open bar and meal for hundreds of people, rented two-story penthouse suites at MGM for the wedding party and flew all the family out to be there. He had to have blown hundreds of thousands on this ceremony that was over in half a day. That's where a majority of our taxes go, to rich parasites like this. Think of every problem that the federal government just throws money at and you'll find people like this. This is why we pay so much yet little ever gets accomplished. We're all too busy squabbling with each other while they fleece us.
It was always a literal boondoggle.
It existed to give the illusion if doing something to help, it was the equivalent to burning the aid money slowly while starving children watched.
Fuck Biden for doing shit like this and then insisting if he's not president it has to be trump.
- If it's not Biden, it'll be Trump. That's the reality we're facing
  
  That's the reality they've given us.
  
  Yes, I thought it was clear that was what I was complaining about
  Fuck Biden for doing shit like this and then insisting if he’s not president it has to be trump
  It takes a special kind of evil to blatantly facilitate a genocide because you know if you're held accountable even worse shit gets done.
  They're both pieces of shit.
I always said that the aid pier was entirely performative, but that's even more pathetic than I was expecting
Wasn't it just a cover for that rescue mission?
- “Rescue mission”? You mean that one where they disguised US / Israeli military as humanitarian aid to get into a refugee camp to slaughter 274 innocent people?
  
  I get your point but it is disingenuous to ignore the fact that it was a rescue mission.
- Isreal borders gaza on two sides. Why would they need to land troops?
  
  Yeah, I misremembered the extraction operation where they took out hostages using the pier: https://apnews.com/article/pier-humanitarian-aid-gaza-israel-un-2465291ca9308f9d97e3cc51a8cab6c7
  And as a result I may have been uncharitable in my assessment.
  
  Why is any of this necessary? Israeli state would like Palestinians to not exist. US state couldn’t be tied more closely. Nothing about the various exploits there are what were being asked to believe, IMO.
Not that anything I say makes one god damn bit of difference, but I TOLD YOU SO
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A US military pier, built two months ago as a way to bring sea-borne humanitarian aid into Gaza, is to be permanently dismantled within a few days, according to a new report.
The Associated Press (AP) reported that the pier, which has had to be moved repeatedly to avoid bad weather, would be reconnected to the Gaza coastline on Wednesday but would operate for just the next few days before being disassembled by the US army and navy.
The pier scheme, first unveiled by Joe Biden in his State of the Union address in March, was always intended to be a temporary measure to complement the meagre amount of aid being allowed across land crossings by Israel, but US officials told Reuters in June it would last until August or September.
The eastern Mediterranean off the Gaza coast had been choppier in the summer months than had been expected with stormy weather making it necessary to move the pier in and out of position repeatedly.
Apart from a day’s operations to clear the backlog of humanitarian assistance on the beach, the WFP has continued to suspend its convoys pending a full security review.
Over its two months in operation, about 8,800 metric tons of aid has been unloaded off the pier, about 500 truckloads, equivalent to a single day of deliveries before the war began.
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