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[-] davel@lemmy.ml 34 points 4 months ago

Who still believes the pier was meant to be anything but an expensive public relations distraction at best.

[-] filister@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

Do not forget that the US also used this pier to station 1000 military personnel. So in my eyes this was just a pretext to deploy those people on the ground.

[-] Zehzin@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The pier is gonna be real useful to ship away the displaced

Or would be if it worked.

[-] oakey66@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

I have to find it but I read something that mentioned that the pier was to be used to displace Palestinians in the future.

[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works -4 points 4 months ago

I do. They are delivering hundreds of tons of aid, even if netanyahu and the IDF are being real pieces of s*** about letting it get delivered.

It helps biden's image, but to call it a "public relations distraction at best" is absurdly narrow-minded and dismissive.

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 9 points 4 months ago

Is this the same Biden who told us last October that he saw photos of beheaded babies? The same government that continues to evade calling this what it is: a genocide? The same one that continues providing the materiel for this genocide, which could not continue without it? Keep on drinking the Kool-Aid.

[-] TheOubliette@lemmy.ml 8 points 4 months ago

The US could force open Southern Gaza borders any time he wanted to using diplomacy alone. The border where Israeli citizens are preventing and destroying aid. The border where aid shipments have arrived for years and where there is an efficient system for delivery.

Building a temporary pier is not a serious attempt to deliver aid. Nor was airdropping big boxes, at least one of which killed someone. They are PR and a cover for small-scale military entry and egress.

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

They are delivering hundreds of tons of aid,

Are they? AFAIK the pier was a failure as soon as it started operating, and if the IDF isn't letting aid get delivered then what was even the point?

[-] lnxtx@feddit.nl 11 points 4 months ago

So they will open additional crossings? Right? Right...?

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 months ago

Best I can do is crush more starving people by dropping aid from the sky.

[-] SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 9 points 4 months ago

Didn't it get smashed up a few weeks ago?

[-] n2burns@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 months ago

It's literally in the article:

...the U.S. announced on May 28 that it had suspended operations so repairs could be made.

The United Nations said on Friday it had still not resumed transportation of aid from the pier to U.N. World Food Programme warehouses.

[-] SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago

Bold of you to assume I read the article.

I mean, I did, but clearly that bit didn't stick....

[-] lnxtx@feddit.nl 5 points 4 months ago
[-] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago

Fixed it for a little while so they could use it as as military outpost for the hostage rescue-massacare. Bonus war crime points for hiding IDF soldiers in aid trucks for the ambushes.

[-] pingveno@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It should be noted that the evidence there is that a helicopter involved in the raid took off from a beach near the pier. So slim to none. And it doesn't even make sense, how would the pier be useful for a military operation?

[-] SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 months ago

Yeah...that tracks. Ffs.

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