The “temporary pier” being built on the Mediterranean coast of Gaza is not there to alleviate the famine, but to herd Palestinians onto ships and into permanent exile.
By Chris Hedges
Piers allow things to come in. They allow things to go out. And Israel, which has no intention of halting its murderous siege of Gaza, including its policy of enforced starvation, appears to have found a solution to its problem of where to expel the 2.3 million Palestinians.
If the Arab world will not take them, as Secretary of State Antony Blinken proposed during his first round of visits after Oct. 7, the Palestinians will be cast adrift on ships. It worked in Beirut in 1982 when some eight and a half thousand Palestine Liberation Organization members were sent by sea to Tunisia and another two and a half thousand ended up in other Arab states. Israel expects that the same forced deportation by sea will work in Gaza.
Israel, for this reason, supports the “temporary pier” the Biden administration is building, to ostensibly deliver food and aid to Gaza – food and aid whose “distribution” will be overseen by the Israeli military.
“You need drivers that don’t exist, trucks that don’t exist feeding into a distribution system that doesn’t exist,” Jeremy Konyndyk, a former senior aid official in the Biden administration, and now president of the Refugees International aid advocacy group told The Guardian.
This “maritime corridor” is Israel’s Trojan Horse, a subterfuge to expel Palestinians. The small shipments of seaborne aid, like the food packets that have been air dropped, will not alleviate the looming famine. They are not meant to.
Five Palestinians were killed and several others injured when a parachute carrying aid failed and crashed onto a crowd of people near Gaza City’s Shati refugee camp.
“Dropping aid in this way is flashy propaganda rather than a humanitarian service,” the media office of the local government in Gaza said. “We previously warned it poses a threat to the lives of citizens in the Gaza Strip, and this is what happened today when the parcels fell on the citizens’ heads.”
If the U.S. or Israel were serious about alleviating the humanitarian crisis, the thousands of trucks with food and aid currently at the southern border of Gaza would be allowed to enter any of its multiple crossings. They are not. The “temporary pier,” like the air drops, is ghoulish theater, a way to mask Washington’s complicity in the genocide.
Israeli media reported the building of the pier was due to pressure by the United Arab Emirates, which threatened Israel with ending a land corridor trade route it administers in collusion with Saudi Arabia and Jordan, to bypass Yemen’s naval blockade.
The Jerusalem Post reported it was Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who proposed the construction of the “temporary pier” to the Biden administration.
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Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, who has called Palestinians “human animals” and advocated a total siege of Gaza, including cutting off electricity, food, water and fuel, lauded the plan, saying “it is designed to bring aid directly to the residents and thus continue the collapse of Hamas’s rule in Gaza.”
“Why would Israel, the engineer of the Gaza famine, endorse the idea of establishing a maritime corridor for aid to address a crisis it initiated and is now worsening?” writes Tamara Nassar in an article titled “What’s the Real Purpose of Biden’s Gaza Port?” in The Electronic Intifada. “This might appear paradoxical if one were to assume that the primary aim of the maritime corridor is to deliver aid.”
When Israel offers a gift to the Palestinians you can be sure it is a poison apple. That Israel got the Biden administration to construct the pier is one more example of the inverted relationship between Washington and Jerusalem, where the Israel lobby has bought off elected officials in the two ruling parties.
Oxfam in a March 15 report accuses Israel of actively hindering aid operations in Gaza in defiance of the orders by the International Court of Justice. It notes that 1.7 million Palestinians, some 75 percent of the Gaza population, are facing famine and two-thirds of the hospitals and over 80 percent of all health clinics in Gaza are no longer operable. The majority of people, the report reads, “have no access to clean drinking water” and “sanitation services are not functioning.”
The report reads:
The conditions we have observed in Gaza are beyond catastrophic, and we have not only seen failure by Israeli authorities to meet their responsibility to facilitate and support international aid efforts, but in fact seen active steps being taken to hinder and undermine such aid efforts. Israel’s control of Gaza continues to be characterized by deliberate restrictive actions that have led to a severe and systemic dysfunctionality in the delivery of aid. Humanitarian organizations operational in Gaza are reporting a worsening situation since the International Court of Justice imposed provisional measures in light of the plausible risk of genocide, with intensified Israeli barriers, restrictions and attacks against humanitarian personnel. Israel has maintained a ‘convenient illusion of a response’ in Gaza to serve its claim that it is allowing aid in and conducting the war in line with international laws.
Oxfam says Israel employs “a dysfunctional and undersized inspection system that keeps aid snarled up, subjected to onerous, repetitive and unpredictable bureaucratic procedures that are contributing to trucks being stranded in giant queues for 20 days on average.” Israel, Oxfam explains, rejects “items of aid as having ‘dual (military) use,’ banning vital fuel and generators entirely along with other items essential for a meaningful humanitarian response such as protective gear and communications kit.” Rejected aid, “must go through a complex ‘pre-approval’ system or end up being held in limbo at the Al Arish warehouse in Egypt.” Israel has also “cracked down on humanitarian missions, largely sealing off northern Gaza, and restricting international humanitarian workers’ access not only into Gaza, but Israel and the West Bank including East Jerusalem too.”
Israel has allowed 15,413 trucks into Gaza during the past 157 days of war. Oxfam estimates that the population of Gaza needs five times that number. Israel allowed 2,874 trucks in February, a 44 percent reduction from the previous month. Before Oct. 7, 500 aid trucks entered Gaza daily.
Israeli soldiers have also killed scores of Palestinians attempting to receive aid from trucks in more than two dozen incidents. These attacks include the killing of at least 21 Palestinians, and the wounding of 150, on March 14, when Israeli forces fired on thousands of people in Gaza City. The same area had been targeted by Israeli soldiers hours earlier.
“Israel’s assault has caught Gaza’s own aid workers and international agencies’ partners inside a ‘practically uninhabitable’ environment of mass displacement and deprivation, where 75 percent of solid waste is now being dumped in random sites, 97 percent of groundwater made unfit for human use, and the Israeli state using starvation as a weapon of war,” Oxfam says.
There is no place in Gaza, Oxfam notes, that is safe “amid the forcible and often multiple displacements of almost the entire population, which makes the principled distribution of aid unviable, including agencies’ ability to help repair vital public services at scale.”
Oxfam blasts Israel for its “disproportionate” and “indiscriminate” attacks on “civilian and humanitarian assets” as well as “solar, water, power and sanitation plants, UN premises, hospitals, roads, and aid convoys and warehouses, even when these assets are supposedly ‘deconflicted’ after their coordinates have been shared for protection.”
The health ministry in Gaza said Monday that at least 31,726 people have been killed since the Israeli assault began five months ago. The death toll includes at least 81 deaths in the previous 24 hours, a ministry statement said, adding that 73,792 people have been wounded in Gaza since Oct. 7. Thousands more are missing, many buried under the rubble.
None of these Israeli tactics will be altered with the building of a “temporary pier.” In fact, given the pending ground assault on Rafah, where 1.2 million displaced Palestinians are crowded in tent cities or camped out in the open air, Israel’s tactics will only get worse.
Israel, by design, is creating a humanitarian crisis of such catastrophic proportions, with thousands of Palestinians killed by bombs, shells, missiles, bullets, starvation and infectious diseases, that the only option will be death or deportation. The pier is where the last act in this gruesome genocidal campaign will be played out as Palestinians are herded by Israeli soldiers onto ships.
How appropriate that the Biden administration, without whom this genocide could not be carried out, will facilitate it.
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15 responses to “Israel’s Trojan Horse”
It is imperative and urgent that Hezbollah and the whole resistance movement, increase their efforts to obliterate the Zionist entity from the face of the earth. It is a labor of love in the eyes of the Lord, long live Palestine.
The $ponsors of your Zionist decoy ducKKK reside in Wa££ $t and the City of £ondon financial sorcerors’ prestidigitations.
Aiming at the decoy serves their mi$dir€KKKtiona£ purposes.
One at the time brother don’t be impatient. Israel out of the way will put a serious dent on world Zionism which is the final target.
“The “temporary pier” being built on the Mediterranean coast of Gaza is not there to alleviate the famine, but to herd Palestinians onto ships and into permanent exile.”
And to facilitate pi££age of the Gaza offshore Leviathan field by British Gas while enabling the development of that prime shorefront property potential identified publicly by Jared KKKU$hner on tv not too long back. The $h€ke£ cult sect behind its ma$KKK of Judaism is beginning to awaken honest Jews worldwide from their collective trauma of Adolf’s rendering of Fortress Europe judenrein. Nazism was armed and financed by Rockefeller (IG Farben was an offshoot/partner of Standard Oil), Du Pont, Ford et al, while IBM managed the logistics, hence the numbers tattooed on the tragets for ‘processing’ in their punchcard machinery of death death camps.
The U.S. plan to build a temporary “humanitarian” pier attached to a “floating harbour” to supply food to the starving population of Gaza if a rose. It will be finished and ready for use after the last Palestinian has died from starvation or disease. The real aim of this criminal charade is to ethnic-cleanse the Palestinians by orchestrating a “voluntary” migration. It is the reason the psychopathic murderous Jews in Israel are not opposing the pier but helping its construction. Indeed, a senior U.S. diplomatic source (https://shorturl.at/sET68) The Jerusalem Post on 10 March, that “Netanyahu took the initiative to establish maritime humanitarian aid for the civilian population in the Gaza Strip, in collaboration with the Biden administration,” In other words, “Biden was simply implementing a plan by Netanyahu, not actually initiating anything new”, said the source.
According to the source, Netanyahu discussed with President Biden the concept of “delivering humanitarian aid to Gaza via the sea, contingent on an Israeli inspection in Cyprus” on 22 October, just two weeks after the war on the Palestinians began.
The Zionist Jews residing in Israel are Old Testament savages with, thanks to Uncle Sam and friends, state-of-the-art twenty-first century military technology! That is a very dangerous combination…just ask a Palestinian, while you can still find one alive!
How do you deal with rabid, bloodthirsty savages hiding behind their religion as they exterminate their neighbors while, as usual, claiming to be the victims and the ones whose existence is imperiled???
Remember, it has been said: “A Jew is the sort of person who cries out as he kicks you!”
THEY ARE GOD’S CURSED NATION ON EARTH .. THESE MONGRELS WILL BURN IN HELL FOR ETERNITY. NO DEED IS GOING TO GET THEM PARDONED BY GOD ..
They have Never been a “Nation”, and Never will be. They are tribals. Dogs can relate to each other better than they, just like a Brooklyn Jew and a Polish Jew.
The absolute truth here is, except for activists, the World has failed the Palestinians living in Gaza up to this point. Imagine being a Palestinian in Rafah right now. Where is the heart and soul of governments around the world who have chosen not to confront Israel? What are the Palestinians wondering as they feel betrayed by the world? What are small children thinking, as they have witnessed death all around them? Where is the rest of the world? Why hasn’t the rest of the world confronted Israel with ultimatums? Are Palestinians the bottom fish of the world? There is no separation between Palestinians and the rest of the world. The U.S. Government is a monster in this cooperation. When I left Viet Nam as a medic, I knew the United States was the enemy. What an incredible awakening for me, and that is why my heart is Palestinian.
Implications are that Israel will take the Palestinians somewhere. Or. More preferably even, to bulldozer them into the drink.
Let’s cut the clown show and give back the Palestinians their land.
FREE PALESTINE
If the Israelis have their way, they are very inventive, they would pack all the Palestinians like sardines and push them into the Mediterranean, or inland into Iran.
ALL PALESTINIANS MUST MOVE TO ENGLAND .. SO CALLED GREAT BRITAIN TO BE NEW COUNTRY OF PALESTINIANS .. ITS THEM BRIT SH IT WHO STARTED THIS IN THE FIRST PLACE BY SIGNING BALFOUR DECLARATION WITH THESE ZIONISTS, ULTIMATELY HANDING OVER & FOR OCCUPATION OF THE PALESTINIAN TERRITORY TO THESE UNWANTED ZIONIST EXTREMISTS EXPORTED BY EUROPE. THESE MF BRITS EVEN WEAPONIZED THOSE WHO WERE BOOTED OUT OF EUROPE. THIS WHOLE SH IT IS A CREATION OF THEM BRITS .. HISTORY SHOWS THAT WHEREVER THESE BRIT SH IT ANIMALS COLONIZED & RULED, AT THE END THEY LEFT BEHIND KILLINGS, FUEDS, BLOOD FLOW & AGONY.
The zio project is making all it’s funders, supporters, defenders and apologists look like the genocidal accomplices they are. These creatures for 8 decades have done nothing positive. They are destructive, degenerates and demented beyond repair. And what these geniuses don’t get is the path that they are paving will be worse for their kith and kin, for generations to come. The mythological illusion presented of higher intelligence is exposed by their sheer stupidity and is never going to be returned…..the zio project is on its last leg. Good riddance
LONG LIVE RESISTANCE
LONG LIVE PALESTINE
The floating pier is more optics then a solution. The Biden administration continues to support genocide and ethnic cleansing while promoting aid distribution which is more photo op than substance. These two governments ( US and Israel ) are straight out of Nazi Germany.