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.
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Just what do they think was going to happen at this floating pier in a war zone? Peaceful stuff?
resupplying the Fakestinian terrorists so that they can continue turning Israeli territory into their own terror-tory
1. aiding the enemy again (like how USA aids PLO Occupying central Israel, Hezballah attacking Israel from the north, and Iran threatening nuclear attacks on USA and Israel and Arab countries)
2. not even needed to aid Hamas terrorist Occupation of gaza. Israel has built or enables several routes, roads, and even a sea lift to facilitate “aid” into the region
3. looks 1000 percent like another setup to create more warfare....thinking Gulf of Tonkin but this provocation is far more flagrant
let’s get that idiotic pier out of there, it is positively dangerous!
and more fundamentally, let’s get our USA government back on the right side of justice, morality, and history. All of this support and aid for Islamic murder gangsters is DISGUSTING and will avail America not one whit
It is an unwritten rule that you try to be as civil as possible during war because that enemy that you are killing may eventually surrender and you can have peace. The losers will accept your demands and you can go back to your fields and factories and carry on with life.
The problem with Hamas and in general Islam, is that they do not want peace. Never! Their religion tells them that if they die a martyrs death, they will be rewarded in heaven. You cannot negotiate with that. Never!
With that kind of attitude, you can never have peace so the alternative is that you kill as many as possible. A dead martyr is no longer a threat.
This is a sad fact that people, in the civilized world, do not realize. They don't realize it until they are confronted with the threat themselves.
All I can say is that I am not the one who has to make the ultimate decision. We all sit back in our arm chairs and give our opinions. The person who gives the orders or is ordered and carries out those orders is the hero. But we all live from the consequences and have ownership in these ultimate decisions.
Humans and humanity suck! There is no way around it. Well there is a way to forgiveness and it is our only hope.
As was obviously intended by Joe's handlers, all just a part of the disruptive Chaos agenda.
...DOD said that none of the hundreds of metric tons of aid delivered across the pier to Gaza had made it to Gazans.
But large parts of it did make it to someone, much to the delight of the anti-MAGA's throughout the Executive Branch.
With U.S. personnel in the field, this pier action was worse than Obama's pallets of cash.
The idea is to make it easy for your enemy to surrender. If they know their fate is most likely death if taken prisoner, that only stiffens their will to fight. The Nazis found that out the hard way in Russia. If they treated the Ukrainians and Russians better, the Red Army would have capitulated.
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.
You can’t fix stupid.
Killing the top leaders will do little to stop the terrorists.
There are plenty in the pipeline to replace those killed.
It’s the same trope about killing Hitler (pick your time)
There would be others, maybe more competent and more evil than Hitler.
That’s a $320 million pier?
Exactly. Good point. If the now enemy values its own life.
The ongoing conventional war with Japan would have been horrible. Probably the worst in all of humanity. But the Japanese people were willing to fight to the death. Every last person. Dropping the bomb was unfortunate but necessary because the end result was surrender it actually saved lives. It was horrible all the way around. But necessary.
Sadly, there will never be peace for Israel. It is a religious war with a totalitarian theocracy. And in the end, Israel will be destroyed... almost.
Whack-A-Mole
What is really important is that the MIC made money and spread it around to the well-connected political parasites in the Fed. It doesn’t matter that the mission is stupid and ultimately fails.
Great to have some good news - praying Netanyahu gets all of them...
Incremental involvement. Just as planned.
Kill one. Ten more step right up. They are in a holy war and those killed will be feted as martyrs. They believe their dead pals are in heaven. Regardless of whether that’s true or not, that’s what they believe.
You mean to tell me that it’s Jo Pedo’s Hammies who are injuring and wounding Jo’s military guyz over there making the pier?
“...American troops injured in non-combat accidents...”
Sounds like a combat situation to me.
“Accidents”? Not freaking hardly...
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