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Posted: 4/23/2024 5:26:53 PM EDT
[Last Edit: michigan66]
Cross posted from Israel-Gaza War thread.
Pentagon says construction of pier off coast of Gaza to begin ‘very soon’ Link The United States will begin construction “very soon” on a pier to boost deliveries of desperately needed aid to Gaza, the Pentagon says Tuesday. “All the necessary vessels are within the Mediterranean region and standing by,” Pentagon spokesman Major General Pat Ryder tells journalists, referring to the watercraft carrying equipment for the pier project. “We are positioned to begin construction very soon,” Ryder adds. The facility will consist of an offshore platform for the transfer of aid from larger to smaller vessels, and a pier to bring it ashore. Plans for a pier off the coast of the Palestinian enclave were first announced by US President Joe Biden in early March as aid deliveries were held up on the ground. US officials have said the effort will not involve “boots on the ground” in Gaza, but American troops will come close to the war-torn territory as they construct the pier, for which Israeli forces are to provide security on the ground. Update 4/25
An under-construction pier for a U.S.-led project to bring aid into the Gaza Strip has come under fire, forcing U.N. officials to take shelter there, Israeli and U.N. officials said. No militant group immediately claimed responsibility for the assault, which the Israelis described as a mortar shell attack. Authorities said that no one was wounded. The attack marks a shaky start to the construction of the pier, a project that the U.S. is spearheading to surge humanitarian aid into Gaza. A Hamas official told The Associated Press that the militant group will resist any foreign military presence involved with the port project. |
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FL, USA
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Posted: 4/23/2024 5:32:34 PM EDT
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FL, USA
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Posted: 4/23/2024 5:34:57 PM EDT
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Not very smart to do.
Oh yeh, lets build this nice thing in the middle of a war. |
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Posted: 4/23/2024 5:35:20 PM EDT
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Be a shame if the dock blew up in a tragic boating accident after all that hard work. Of course, given Bidens track record it will probably never get done and take billions to "keep it on track".
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Posted: 4/23/2024 5:38:50 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By jeepnstein: Be a shame if the dock blew up in a tragic boating accident after all that hard work. Of course, given Bidens track record it will probably never get done and take billions to "keep it on track". It would be so much better if it were a huge storm with hig winds and rough seas that tore it up and sunk it. It would be biblical |
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Posted: 4/23/2024 5:51:49 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By michigan66: Cross posted from Israel-Gaza War thread. Pentagon says construction of pier off coast of Gaza to begin 'very soon' Link The United States will begin construction "very soon" on a pier to boost deliveries of desperately needed aid to Gaza, the Pentagon says Tuesday. "All the necessary vessels are within the Mediterranean region and standing by," Pentagon spokesman Major General Pat Ryder tells journalists, referring to the watercraft carrying equipment for the pier project. "We are positioned to begin construction very soon," Ryder adds. The facility will consist of an offshore platform for the transfer of aid from larger to smaller vessels, and a pier to bring it ashore. Plans for a pier off the coast of the Palestinian enclave were first announced by US President Joe Biden in early March as aid deliveries were held up on the ground. US officials have said the effort will not involve "boots on the ground" in Gaza, but American troops will come close to the war-torn territory as they construct the pier, for which Israeli forces are to provide security on the ground. |
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Posted: 4/23/2024 5:55:50 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By Iamhere: Not very smart to do. Oh yeh, lets build this nice thing in the middle of a war. Originally Posted By jeepnstein: Be a shame if the dock blew up in a tragic boating accident after all that hard work. Of course, given Bidens track record it will probably never get done and take billions to "keep it on track". |
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TX, USA
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Posted: 4/23/2024 5:57:40 PM EDT
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We're broke but gonna send Billions to other places. Seems legit
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Posted: 4/23/2024 5:58:19 PM EDT
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Idiots
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USA
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Posted: 4/23/2024 5:58:48 PM EDT
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The US can try and play peacemaker all it wants, there is some real hatred on both sides, between Jews and Palestinians/Arabs.
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Posted: 4/23/2024 5:59:32 PM EDT
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 They’re going to build that pier so many times.
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Posted: 4/23/2024 6:03:14 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Inneedofhelp: The US can try and play peacemaker all it wants, there is some real hatred on both sides, between Jews and Palestinians/Arabs. Do you even Great Uniter, Bro? |
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Posted: 4/23/2024 6:05:30 PM EDT
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How much will THIS cost my great-great-grandchildren?
 Even if it is ever completed (doubtful) the Palestinians will just figure out a way to kill Jews with it. |
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Posted: 4/23/2024 6:11:06 PM EDT
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How far we have come so quickly. Joe is a weak POS. More proof that the ultra-left is really the destroy america party.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/25/hamas-funding-sanctions-treasury.html |
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Posted: 4/23/2024 6:12:03 PM EDT
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They've taken such good care of the infrastructure in Gaza to date, why not?
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Posted: 4/23/2024 6:21:12 PM EDT
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Perfectly good port facilities are available in Egypt and Israel.
Hamas has a goal of destroying America. This project puts US servicemen at risk for no good reason. It’s incoherent foreign policy driven by beltway bubble activists. If we really wanted to help those poor people in Gaza, we’d help get rid of Hamas and install a democratic government. [/s] |
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Posted: 4/23/2024 6:25:27 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By jeepnstein: Be a shame if the dock blew up in a tragic boating accident after all that hard work. Of course, given Bidens track record it will probably never get done and take billions to "keep it on track". 
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Posted: 4/23/2024 8:05:41 PM EDT
[Last Edit: michigan66]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Kilroytheknifesnob: Perfectly good port facilities are available in Egypt and Israel. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Kilroytheknifesnob: Perfectly good port facilities are available in Egypt and Israel. Lots of people are saying the same thing. Iranian TV, among others, thinks it's a plot to ship the people in Gaza to Cyprus and from there to Europe and the US. Others think it's a plot to steal oil and natural gas. Palestinians have written poems telling people to avoid the pier--link here. Continue The Storm "O people of Gaza, surround [the enemy] and kindle/A storm in every city/Do not agree to the sea pier [i.e., the temporary U.S. port]/Or to planes that do not help you fight/But only force food upon you. Cartoon showing how some see the pier:  A Palestinian wrote the following in a Qatari newspaper--link to Arabic language site which you can translate into English. Mar 09, 2024 US President Biden announced the construction of a temporary naval pier off the coast of Gaza to receive aid ships coming from the Cypriot port of Larnaca, and the US army will carry out this task. One missile fired by the resistance in the Gaza Strip at this American pier (temporary port), or at the ships coming to it, will lead to its complete destruction, if the goal of its construction was to end the authority of Hamas and turn the Palestinian incubator against it, and to displace the people of the Gaza Strip to Europe in implementation of Netanyahu’s plan. These missiles are available in abundance, in addition to the frogmen's weapon, which is fully prepared to destroy this pier, and there are many precedents for it in this regard. If this expertise does not exist among the resistance factions in the Gaza Strip, it can be imported from Yemen, which is very happy these days, whose naval forces succeeded in closing Bab al-Mandab, and whose missiles and drones attacked American military ships in the Red and Arab Bahrain. |
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Posted: 4/23/2024 8:12:13 PM EDT
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Biden will get the Nobel for this…
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Posted: 4/23/2024 8:27:06 PM EDT
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The US building a pier into Israel.
Hmmm... yeah. Hamas is going to fire so many rockets at it. US personnel will get killed. It will be another colossal fuckup by our woke as fuck State Dept - just like the Kabul fiasco. |
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VA, USA
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Posted: 4/23/2024 8:28:04 PM EDT
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Palms have been greased, the graft has gone through, and the grifting shall soon begin.
Wonder much money and blood those assholes intend to throw into the fire on this boondoggle? |
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Posted: 4/23/2024 8:29:16 PM EDT
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Remember the $100 million + greenhouse complex built for the Hamas folks? They looted it down to nothing within 24 hours. I see the same thing happening with this dock.
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NC, USA
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Posted: 4/23/2024 8:57:13 PM EDT
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The dock is not to unload aid to Hamas.
The dock is to load ships with thousands of Hamas/Gazans for a return trip back to the US. |
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Posted: 4/23/2024 9:17:32 PM EDT
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I understand this is just an old expired pier that needed to be replaced anyway, so we actually benefit from this expenditure.
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NC, USA
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Posted: 4/23/2024 9:38:43 PM EDT
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For opsec reasons I cannot divildge who or where or when...but SOON, very soon. I have a personal acquaintence who will be building that pier.
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USA
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Posted: 4/23/2024 9:45:32 PM EDT
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More American tax payer dollars wasted in the Middle East.
Terrorists will soon be using the pier for their own purposes. |
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Posted: 4/23/2024 9:46:13 PM EDT
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It will probably sink.
The curse of Biden. |
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TX, USA
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Posted: 4/23/2024 9:46:19 PM EDT
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This is cluster fu#k of epic proportions. A fixed temporary position broadcast all over the neighborhood. And 1/2 the shit they need will be in the water in hours.
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Posted: 4/23/2024 9:54:59 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By jeepnstein: Be a shame if the dock blew up in a tragic boating accident after all that hard work. Shayetet 13 to the underwater courtesy phone please. |
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OH, USA
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Posted: 4/23/2024 9:56:45 PM EDT
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Will this "aid" consist of sewer pipes, sugar and other materials that can be used to fabricate rockets?
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KS, USA
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Posted: 4/23/2024 9:57:49 PM EDT
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Hamas definitely won’t blow it up.
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NY, USA
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Posted: 4/23/2024 9:58:08 PM EDT
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That just means that the last remaining kickbacks are just about put in place.
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Posted: 4/23/2024 9:58:51 PM EDT
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No boots on the ground, but Seabees will be on that pier…
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Posted: 4/23/2024 10:04:02 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Moyockgunner: For opsec reasons I cannot divildge who or where or when...but SOON, very soon. I have a personal acquaintence who will be building that pier. One of my coworkers son is being shipped over there. My coworker is not happy. |
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Posted: 4/23/2024 10:04:15 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Makarov: How much will THIS cost my great-great-grandchildren? Even if it is ever completed (doubtful) the Palestinians will just figure out a way to kill Jews with it. Awe, don't worry there buddy, your grandchildren will be the last Americans to remember anything that used to be called freedom. After that it'll be much like Venezuela is today. The kids there now have no idea how great Venezuela used to be. |
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Posted: 4/23/2024 10:05:20 PM EDT
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My dumb stupid ass government at work at the extreme retardation level.
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Posted: 4/25/2024 11:07:00 AM EDT
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Update 4/25
An under-construction pier for a U.S.-led project to bring aid into the Gaza Strip has come under fire, forcing U.N. officials to take shelter there, Israeli and U.N. officials said. No militant group immediately claimed responsibility for the assault, which the Israelis described as a mortar shell attack. Authorities said that no one was wounded. The attack marks a shaky start to the construction of the pier, a project that the U.S. is spearheading to surge humanitarian aid into Gaza. A Hamas official told The Associated Press that the militant group will resist any foreign military presence involved with the port project. |
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USA
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Posted: 4/25/2024 11:17:53 AM EDT
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Aid to the gypsy terrorists?
Keep blowing it up. |
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Posted: 4/25/2024 11:22:46 AM EDT
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Next they will send Marines in to protect it, and away we go!
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FL, USA
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Posted: 4/25/2024 11:50:30 AM EDT
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Hamas doesn't want aid getting in that they cannot control.
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