Officials are poised to begin ferrying badly needed humanitarian aid into the enclave besieged over seven months of intense fighting in the Israel-Hamas war.
  • filister@lemmy.world
    23·
    1 month ago

    You do realise that if Israel wanted they could have flooded Gaza with humanitarian aid, and all those equilibristics with air drops and floating piers would not have been needed, right?

    This is in a way like an open admission for the US that their closest Middle East Ally is using hunger as a weapon of war and they are trying to appear the good guys, while sending even more weapons to Israel to “defend” themselves.

    • CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.workEnglish
      42·
      1 month ago

      I do not think the US or Israel actually have good intentions, but I doubt that the pier has anything to do with off-shore oil or gas exploitation. What purpose would it serve when the oil or gas could be brought to a fully developed port that already exists?

  • NeuronautML@lemmy.ml
    153·
    1 month ago

    The US as a country is wholly complicit in this genocide. Both their major parties are 100% in support of genocide. Their universities are investing millions in weapons factories that create the tools of the genocide. Their taxpayer dollars go towards directly funding the genocide. This after the 20 years long wars they caused in the middle east with the countless suffering caused by that.

    I am disgusted at Israel and the US. Never forget what the US really is. How can any of us from “third world” countries see the US as anything better than the worst that China and Russia have done ? They’re all cut from the same cloth.

  • oakey66@lemmy.world
    131·
    1 month ago

    Looking forward to the pier being used to import settlers and bombs to further decimate Gaza. Because at this point I have no faith in the Biden admini Doing anything right when it comes to this genocide.

  • livus@kbin.social
    111·
    1 month ago

    Empty optics only work if people are not paying attention to facts. I don’t think that’s going to happen here.

  • GrymEdm@lemmy.world
    9·
    1 month ago

    As much as the “hurt with one hand, help with the other” approach bothers me, I really hope this enables sufficient aid to safely reach the civilians who so desperately need it.

    • livus@kbin.social
      141·
      1 month ago

      Sorry to burst your bubble but it’s technically incapable of enabling sufficient aid.

      • the US plan is to start with 70 trucks worth of aid and ramp it up to 100 trucks

      • even before the war Gaza needed about 400 trucks of aid, that was when people still had homes and hospitals

      • there are IDF outposts on each side of the pier meaning it could become a choke point just like the crossings

      • the IDF have reinvaded the North where the worst of the famine is

      • the closing of the Rafah crossing means famine conditions are rapidly worsening in the South as well now.

      • once people are actually starving, you need aid workers to distribute aid.

    • macniel@feddit.de
      131·
      1 month ago

      You mean makeshift targets for the most moral army on this god given planet, right?

  • Crikeste@lemm.ee
    91·
    1 month ago

    You get: A pier

    We get: to kill 15,000 of your children

    Why are you yelling, you unhinged antisemite?

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
      51·
      1 month ago

      While many more death happens as a result of US sending Israel weapons and doing political cover for them. It’s like if I gave my friend a gun to shoot you and rob you, then came by to put a bandaid on your wound as you’re bleeding out.