GAZA aid pier falls apart

Is committing genocide on a group of people ok because of 10 /6 ? Didn’t they have info of what was happening well before 10/6 .

a reply to: Onlyfewdaysleftguys
I think you’re confused. Do you know what happened on 10/6? Nothing.
You need to read the post I was responding to, then maybe it’ll make sense to you.

The topic of this being a genocide has been beat to death, good luck with that.

originally posted by: watchitburn
a reply to: network dude

-Biden say "No boots on the ground"
-Builds a pier for $500 million without Congressional approval.

-Pier gets attacked by Hamas, falls apart and drifts away. Troops watch from the beach.

Every single thing this regime does turns to sh!t.

It's a completely unmitigated clown show.

Every single time.

The pier was attacked by Hamas? I thought it said it was a storm that wrecked it? I'm interested to know what the truth is, did Hamas attack the pier and what troops sat on the beach and watched?

originally posted by: JAY1980
The easiest solution would be to stop creating conditions in Gaza that would required the aid pier in the first place.

Just a thought...

Excellent example of the American government creating the problem then offering a half ass'd solution to fix it.

To the people only laughing at the Biden administration over this:

You do realize this reflects badly on the whole country not just the Biden administration?

It's the American army corp of engineering that are incapable of building a simple pier. These are the guys who built the hoover damn. You all act as if the walking corpse that is Biden is out there swinging a hammer or something.

You laugh at Biden while the world laughs at you...

yes, it's my fault Joe Biden is trying to make the Muslims in Dearborn love him again. I feel so dirty.

You are aware that the war being discussed is between Israel and HAMAS, right? HAMAS attacked Israel and declared war on them. it was in the news.

originally posted by: TheMisguidedAngel
The pier was attacked by Hamas? I thought it said it was a storm that wrecked it? I'm interested to know what the truth is, did Hamas attack the pier and what troops sat on the beach and watched?

Both are correct.

The Pier was attacked by Hamas previously AND now, after it has been up and running for about a week, it fell apart and sank.

Here is the thread talking about how it was attacked by Hamas - ATS Thread

a reply to: network dude

Essentially a “sinking ship”, just like the US in its current status.

originally posted by: DAVID64
Just to drive my point home.

www.foxnews.com...

While the pier has been used to transfer roughly 569 metric tons of aid into Gaza, none of that aid had been delivered to Palestinians as of last week, the Pentagon confirmed.

And to just double or quintuple the colossal failure of this perpetually and hopelessly broken administration...569 metric tons is about 1/20th of a single average sized cargo ship today! So this means, this $500m of US taxpayer money has only facilitated the unloading of less than 5% of a single cargo ship...once!

That is sad, pathetic and infuriating beyond any words I have in my vocabulary!!!

a reply to: TheMisguidedAngel

... I thought it said it was a storm that wrecked it? I'm interested to know what the truth is...

If I am not mistaken, a storm and heavy seas were reported as being a reason the pier could not be used for unloading for a period of time, but I haven't seen any reports that the pier was significantly damaged by the storms.

However, the pier is built in a very exposed location which is certainly not the best place to build a pier.

What I really wonder is why they didn't send in one of the US Navy Expeditionary Transfer Docks like the USNS John Glenn which was put into service in 2014 at a cost of $1.6 billion TAXPAYER dollars, never commissioned by the USN, and then removed from service less than a year later in 2015, and put into drydock????

The US government is the most wasteful enterprise on this entire planet! It's just unimaginable how much money, OUR money, these politicians waste!! And, this is not a partisan statement; they ALL do it!

originally posted by: Flyingclaydisk
a reply to: TheMisguidedAngel

... I thought it said it was a storm that wrecked it? I'm interested to know what the truth is...

What I really wonder is why they didn't send in one of the US Navy Expeditionary Transfer Docks like the USNS John Glenn which was put into service in 2014 at a cost of $1.6 billion TAXPAYER dollars, never commissioned by the USN, and then removed from service less than a year later in 2015, and put into drydock????

The US government is the most wasteful enterprise on this entire planet! It's just unimaginable how much money, OUR money, these politicians waste!! And, this is not a partisan statement; they ALL do it!

Not familiar with that ship or what it does but that’s insane. More well spent tax dollars, arghh.

Didn't we learn in WWII that you couldn't just build a temporary dock you also needed a breakwater built around the temporary dock.

en.wikipedia.org...

Mulberry harbours were two temporary portable harbours developed by the British Admiralty and War Office during the Second World War to facilitate the rapid offloading of cargo onto beaches during the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944. Designed in 1942 and then built in under a year in great secrecy, within hours of the Allies successfully creating beachheads following D-Day, sections of the two prefabricated harbours and old ships, to be sunk to create breakwaters, were being towed across the English Channel from southern England and placed in position off Omaha Beach (Mulberry "A") and Gold Beach (Mulberry "B").

buff.ly...

It would be wise of the Biden administration to come out and be like "Well, it turns out Israel wasn't kidding, it's hard as # to provide these people aid."

They hit the #ing pier with mortars. The shipments have been getting attacked. I saw an interview with multiple Gazans who said they don't even want the aid.

a reply to: YourFaceAgain

Hamas-linked website warns Palestinians not to work with Israel'

www.reuters.com...


GAZA, March 11 (Reuters) - A Hamas-linked website on Monday warned Palestinian individuals or groups against co-operating with Israel to provide security for aid convoys amid the five-month-old war in the Gaza Strip.
Those who did would be treated as collaborators and be handled with an iron fist, the Hamas Al-Majd security website said, quoting a security official in Palestinian militant forces.

Wonder how Hamas feels about US aid?

a reply to: Lazy88

If this isn't proof of what I've been saying about the distinction between Hamas and Palestine, then I don't know what is.

Palestine = people
Hamas = TERRORISTS!

originally posted by: FlyersFan

originally posted by: TheMisguidedAngel
The pier was attacked by Hamas? I thought it said it was a storm that wrecked it? I'm interested to know what the truth is, did Hamas attack the pier and what troops sat on the beach and watched?

Both are correct.

The Pier was attacked by Hamas previously AND now, after it has been up and running for about a week, it fell apart and sank.

Here is the thread talking about how it was attacked by Hamas - ATS Thread

Thank you

originally posted by: Flyingclaydisk
a reply to: TheMisguidedAngel

... I thought it said it was a storm that wrecked it? I'm interested to know what the truth is...

If I am not mistaken, a storm and heavy seas were reported as being a reason the pier could not be used for unloading for a period of time, but I haven't seen any reports that the pier was significantly damaged by the storms.

However, the pier is built in a very exposed location which is certainly not the best place to build a pier.

What I really wonder is why they didn't send in one of the US Navy Expeditionary Transfer Docks like the USNS John Glenn which was put into service in 2014 at a cost of $1.6 billion TAXPAYER dollars, never commissioned by the USN, and then removed from service less than a year later in 2015, and put into drydock????

The US government is the most wasteful enterprise on this entire planet! It's just unimaginable how much money, OUR money, these politicians waste!! And, this is not a partisan statement; they ALL do it!

I was just going by the quote in the article and in the original post about a storm or "rough weather" causing the pier to fall apart. The quote is from the fox News article linked on the main post.

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

Thanks for the other info about the US Navy Expeditionary Transfer Docks that were never really used though. That's just mind-boggling that anything like a movable dock would cost $1.6:Billion dollars!!

originally posted by: DAVID64
a reply to: network dude

Why are we sending billions of dollars to everyone but the tax paying American ? We're bailing out every other country but our own. Homeless Vets and just homeless people are taking over, billions spent to house and feed an out of control immigration crisis and the average American is barely getting by.

FJB and the Democrats.

humanitarian aid might seem like we're just giving away stuff for free but in reality its not free, governments accept debt in exchange so we make a return on those costs plus interest, its all profits for our government in the end.

originally posted by: Flyingclaydisk
What I really wonder is why they didn't send in one of the US Navy Expeditionary Transfer Docks like the USNS John Glenn which was put into service in 2014 at a cost of $1.6 billion TAXPAYER dollars, never commissioned by the USN, and then removed from service less than a year later in 2015, and put into drydock????

those ships still have to use this dock and one is already being used for this operation, the USNS Benavidez, so what are you even arguing?

here

a reply to: network dude

Not necessarily, I'm thinking they can be resourceful. I mean really Network Dude, are there stupid people doing this?

originally posted by: quintessentone
a reply to: network dude

Not necessarily, I'm thinking they can be resourceful. I mean really Network Dude, are there stupid people doing this?

it appears to be stupid people in charge of this. If they were smart, it wouldn't fail in such epic proportions. it did.

originally posted by: namehere
humanitarian aid might seem like we're just giving away stuff for free but in reality its not free, governments accept debt in exchange so we make a return on those costs plus interest, its all profits for our government in the end.

Our government is accepting debt from the people of Gaza in return for the aid? If that's true, you know we will never get paid back for that aid. It's a financial black hole.

originally posted by: namehere

originally posted by: DAVID64
a reply to: network dude

Why are we sending billions of dollars to everyone but the tax paying American ? We're bailing out every other country but our own. Homeless Vets and just homeless people are taking over, billions spent to house and feed an out of control immigration crisis and the average American is barely getting by.

FJB and the Democrats.

humanitarian aid might seem like we're just giving away stuff for free but in reality its not free, governments accept debt in exchange so we make a return on those costs plus interest, its all profits for our government in the end.

so it's our version of Belts and Roads that China does?