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[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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

Or would be if it worked.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Bold of you to assume I read the article.

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 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?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 5 months ago

Yeah...that tracks. Ffs.