Der Pier des US-Militärs in Gaza soll 320 Millionen Dollar kosten; Beteiligt sind etwa 1.000 US-Soldaten

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-militarys-pier-gaza-cost-320-million-2024-04-29/

36 comments

  1. That will be blown up in a month or two by palestinians.

  3. Why? Send those money to Ukraine is better than this.

  4. Great. Can’t wait for all this to be blown up the second we stop guarding it. A helpless population.

  5. Apparently Hamas doesn’t want the Palestinians to have any aid as they mortared the site over the weekend.

  7. America pays Americans to build 320M pier that will be destroyed. America will then pay more Americans to protect the pier using American weapons and equipment.

  9. There won’t be positive news. Reuters will be reporting “Palestinian falls and cracks head open on badly made US port!”

  11. > A senior Biden administration official said last week that humanitarian aid coming off the pier will need to pass through Israeli checkpoints on land.
    That is despite the aid having already been inspected by Israel in Cyprus before being shipped to Gaza. Israel wants to prevent any aid getting to Hamas fighters that boosts their war effort.

    I don’t quite understand what this pier is supposed to change about the status quo. So the aid has to go to Cyprus, be inspected by Israel there, then go to an Israeli port, so it can be inspected at a checkpoint again and then shipped from the Israeli port to the pier?

  12. The United States Military should not be building this port.

  14. What a waste of money and time.

    I’d rather not be supporting the type of people that live in Gaza, if they are so keen on their terrorist government let them fend for themselves.

    Any troops positioned to defend this silly pier will be targets for Hamas, I don’t see how will be materially different than the exiting entrances that Hamas simply steals the food from.

  15. Let them starve and then they might revolt against Hamas. I don’t want my taxes going to this

  16. 320,000,000$. Palestinians really are the most privileged refugees. I still can’t get out of my mind that they’re going to start another suicide war as soon as an opportunity is available. And then back to asking for more aid and ceasefire and being victims

  17. Why don’t UN peacekeeping troops get involved?

  19. Of course it has. And it will only operate for a few months. Great

  20. All this money, all this effort, a 1000 of our service members for what? So these ungrateful fucks can shoot at us?

    Why is the US bending over backwards here?

  21. Don’t worry guys, in a couple months when we inevitably deploy troops to defend this thing, we can listen to all the college kids scream at *us* for being genocidal. They might even demand completely one-sided ceasefire, where they’re indignant that we aren’t just sitting there and letting them kill us.

  22. We really should take the sunk costs out of the math… We certainly aren’t hiring anyone new to do this work.

  25. If it weren’t so dangerous, I’d wish that they’d employ Gazans to build and maintain it. I’m sure there’s several people there who could use a job

  26. Yeah, last time UNICEF built a water pipeline to Gaza, it was all dug up, cut up and used to build the rockets.
    Can’t wait to see what those crafty folks do with the pier….

  27. I suspect this is how tax dollars get laundered into dark projects.

  28. Stupid outlay of taxpayers cash. Utterly disgusting. You know how many people that could feed in Gaza and elsewhere?

  29. Will be a total waste. We should spend that money in Hati, Belize or Guatemala where that level of aid would be appreciated and put to good use.

  30. It’s much cheaper to just drive the trucks from Jordan, where the U.S already have bases straight into Israel and into Gaza. The $320 million cost can be spent on more food & medicine.

  31. Good on the Arabs for changing warfare when we thought nuclear would be a deterrent. Outsmarted once again.
    The lessons of the first world war are lost.

  33. So we supplement Israel’s military that bombs Palestine who we then supplement.

    Jesus fuck.

  34. Win win for USA and Israel, I’d say.

    1. If Hamas attacks USA troops, then USA would have reason to actively help Israel in the war.

    2. Now USA can provide aid directly to the Palestinians. Something Hamas was either not capable or not interested in doing well.

  36. What a waste.

    All this is on the shoulders of Hamas and their supporters.

    Palestinians should have overthrown them years ago.

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