Posted on 05/24/2024 9:05:42 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The U.S.-built temporary "humanitarian pier" on Gaza's Mediterranean coast — announced by President Joe Biden in his March State of the Union address and completed last week — has quickly turned into a chaotic, dangerous place.
In addition to American troops injured in non-combat accidents, the pier is not moving aid to residents in the enclave at the level hyped by Pentagon officials. Earlier this week, the Department of Defense said that none of the hundreds of metric tons of aid delivered across the pier to Gaza had made it to Gazans.
Even worse, the pier has been the target of attacks by terrorists in Gaza — and now defensive U.S. weapons are being activated to protect the floating aid delivery platform.
U.S. forces are having to directly engage Hamas rockets because the terrorists are trying to destroy the pier.
Now ask yourself...why would they want to destroy the pier that exists only to send food into Gaza?
Makes you think, right? https://t.co/zAzyCRCqvs— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) May 23, 2024
In April, terrorists launched a mortar attack on the marshaling area where the pier connects to land in the Gaza Strip during its construction. The mortar caused minimal damage and the Washington Post said U.S. servicemembers weren't in harm's way — a generous assessment given American troop's presence immediately adjacent to a war zone filled with terrorists who'd celebrate a successful hit on a U.S. target — but it highlighted the shortsightedness of Biden's plan.
Now that the pier's construction is complete, American C-RAM systems to intercept incoming fire have been set up because Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and other Iran-backed terrorists continue to attack humanitarian aid — not that pro-terrorist voices would admit the inconvenient truth that terrorists are the ones disrupting aid delivery.
The U.S. pier is not the only entry point for humanitarian aid being attacked by terrorists. On Thursday, the Kerem Shalom border crossing between Israel and Gaza near Rafah was attacked by Hamas for the fourth time this month following attacks on May 5, 9, and 12. The first attack killed four IDF soldiers.
🚨🚨🚨Hamas just fired at Kerem Shalom, the main humanitarian aid crossing into Gaza.
Hamas will do anything to prevent aid from reaching the people of Gaza.— COGAT (@cogatonline) May 23, 2024
At Kerem Shalom, "hundreds of trucks continue to cross into Gaza daily to provide humanitarian aid to Gazans," noted Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) Adjunct Fellow Seth Frantzman of the crossing. "This is important as the IDF expands operations in Rafah and in northern Gaza. The aid provides for Gazan civilians even as Hamas terrorists continue to target the aid crossing," he added.
Joe Truzman, the senior research analyst at FDD's Long War Journal, emphasized the fact that "Hamas attacks on locations that facilitate aid to the people of Gaza continue because international pressure has failed to prevent the terrorists from doing so. Meanwhile, Israeli military operations in the Rafah area have so far failed to stop Hamas from firing on Kerem Shalom," a "crucial hub" for humanitarian aid distribution in Gaza.
For a minute there I thought they were staging a CIWS system on the beach.
And there was MacArthur’s Inchon landings in 1950 to deliver aid to civilians in Pyongyang...
Yikes!
Bad guys acting like bad guys! How unexpected. /s
Another Biden Bungle
The only attention that the U.S. should give to that pier right now consists of making sure that several 2,000 pound bombs land on it within the next 15 minutes. Alternatively, I am quite sure that the Israelis could give us a helping hand with that.
Ungrateful pucks, they shouldn’t be given the right time of day.
Let ‘em.
They elected them.
And reelected them.
And reelected them.
Since 2006 I believe.
They do not fear them. They are them.
“Do we need to kill them all so we can safely bring them food?”
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I’m not sure, but every reasonable hypothesis needs to be tested in order to verify its validity.
They need to recruit security guards for the pier from Ivy League schools. They need to put up or shut up.
“Mission creep’’. Where have we seen this before?
Oh yeah. Yeah, now I remember. Vietnam! A place called Da Nang. We had an airbase there.
Marines were sent in March of 1965 , just to ‘’guard the airbase’’.
Yeah. Boy. What a night out that was.
Uh huh, who didn’t see this coming??? Anyone???
Holy Crap, Batman! U.S. military now engaged in shooting war with Hamas!!!
Yet ANOTHER Joe Biden war!
Has it occurred to anyone in the DoD, at any level, that maybe, just maybe, no one in the Pentagon has the foggiest idea about what is happening in Gaza? Maybe one of our intelligence officers with a fancy Ivy League education should spend a few months shadowing their counterpart in the IDF or the Shin Bet and try to acquire a fundamental understanding of what’s really going on. After seeing the movie Lawrence of Arabia and reading The Seven Pillars of Wisdom. And maybe the Israel-Arab Reader by Lacqueur.
Gee, who didn’t see this coming?
CIWS on a truck?
Had no idea
If it doesn’t have chocolate chips, it cannot be a ‘cookie’.
It would be interesting if the pier has to be defended with F-35s. The college campi would get all messy again.
Boondoggle is the name of the pier. The Boondoggle Causeway.
Blinken & Bidet should take a walk on the pier...
Forgot the [/s] tag.
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