"Gaza Pier sinking" Topic

The U.S. was forced to suspend the delivery of aid to its temporary "floating pier" on the coast of Gaza on Tuesday after rough weather caused the structure to break apart.

Four vessels that had stabilized the pier broke off due to choppy waters earlier this week, but officials said the pier was still operational. That is no longer the case as of Tuesday…

Fox News: link

And Pentagon confirms no aid has reached Palestinians from the pier. (Contrary to other reports.)

$300 USD some million pouring down the drain

But a priceless metaphor.

Good.

Does the pier have a name? Should we name the pier after its sponsor? 🤔

Why would I cheer an American failure? Especially when tens of thousands of people are starving to death. Do you really dislike America that much that you think of cheering this?

Mocking something that we openly decried as folly on this board when it was first announced is not the same thing as "cheering."

None of us dislike America; but most of us dislike the idea of providing food that will sustain Hamas. If they want to avoid a humanitarian disaster, they should surrender. Believe me, the Israelis will treat them far better than they would have been treated, were the situation reversed.

Nine pound round +1

Yep +1 9 pound !

BTW … CENTCOM is still doing supply drops as I had heard in a report.

Regardless many will still die from starvation, lack of medical supplies, etc., etc. Who to blame ? Hamas & Iran are the guilty parties.

Nine pound round for the win. I love America – not Hamas.

9lb +1

It was a politically motivated idea. An attempt to try to appease the discontent on many college campuses and their Islamic voters. Many of us feared additional unnecessary US casualties and taxpayer expense with no return from Muslims in the Middle East and little chance of the supplies reaching the actual people.

In the first week after the pier was built, they were able to bring in about 90 trucks per day that were supposed to then drive to warehouses where the aid would be distributed. However, in the first week only 70 trucks out of around 500+ actually got to the warehouses! Why the U.S. just didn't use an Israeli port where the distribution could be better controlled is hard to fathom, outside of building the pier for optics.

However, in the first week only 70 trucks out of around 500+ actually got to the warehouses!

According to the original link above, the Pentagon says NO aid reached Palestinians from the pier.

I had heard that and even saw footage of the trucks near the pier IIRC. Well with the large number of Palestinians starving etc. It would have been good optics in an election year. To show the US is doing everything it can to save starving moslem women and children. Could mean more votes …

Aegis, they didn't use an Israeli port because all border crossings from Israel into Gaza were closed (at the time of it's Inception).

Part of the reason for building it was, I'm sure, to pressure the Israelis to open some border crossings.

May it's a stealth pier and it pops up when no one is around. .

That's probably classified Shark 630 …

Maybe the fate of the pier was simply "an act of God." In this case, an act of the God of Israel.

Grattan54, I get it. It's not so much the failure or that some sound AntiAmerican. I don't believe they are for a second. And many are vets. It's the mirth when some bad idea flops."We told you so"…." This would never happen under so and so" is sometimes implied. A time honored tradition, but sounding more political these days perhaps.

On the big picture side, there are real questions now about the conduct of this war going forward. A poll this week says 62% of Israelis do not believe Hamas will be defeated, almost the reverse of last fall. And the civilian casualties and suffering only help recruit more terrorists for Iran to play with at this point IMO. Netanyahu may not get out of this one without losing his job. If the government swings back to the center at some point, there might be a settlement.

But what about Iran? These guys have been the core issue since Beirut, IMO.

But what about Iran ?

As I post here on another thread …

Yes, that has been predicted a number of times how close they are to having nukes. It didn't help any by the US Gov't giving them millions or billions of $ over the past 3 years. And playing soft ball with them. This is a gov't(?) that rapes & kills women for not wearing their hijabs "correctly(?)". You want them to have nukes?

The very last thing the world needs is a fundamentalist islamic theocracy getting deployable Nuke WMDs. If Iran has them than KSA will want some, etc., etc. I do see having a nuke arms race in that region is a big no go. Where some believe if they themselves are killed when killing infidels, they will go to some sort of "Paradise" …

Nuke WMDs in the hands of a fundamental theocracy, is a mighty terrifying scenario. I can think that it will be easy for them to build the nuclear mines that the Chinese focused on in the 1970s when they lacked delivery systems.

TimePortal +1 Again … who in the US thought it was a good idea to keep giving Iran $ ?

From Military.com -

The port at Gaza …

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