Gotta grab the offshore resources
this post was submitted on 15 Mar 2024
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I’m not sure what point this is trying to make but as an American taxpayer, I’m fine with my money going toward unnecessary construction if it means there are no more excuses in the short term and if it means we are better suited for the longer term recovery effort.
Trucks are great, going through neighboring countries is great, but just look at the scale of destruction and the number of people: they’re going to need a lot of help, and for longer than they’ll hold everyone’s attention. Ships are great at that.
So, on a major highway, about in the middle? Israel has no excuse to inspect or block, no excuses about the possibility of weapons or terrorists. And it’s separated from the city a bit, so no more “oops”. If you gotta be stuck with one distribution point, that seems like a good choice
The question is what is the goal here. Is it to help Palestinians or israel?
Trucks are great. In fact they are so great that there's 2000 outside the gate waiting to get in.
The recent shipment equaled 12 trucks. Gaza needs more than 500 trucks a day.
So far, we have a tiny wharf, that can accept a barge. The bigger wharf will presumably accept a ship.
Trucks can bring stuff from neighboring countries. The ships had to be local, or already shipped from elsewhere. A ship can come directly from other countries
2,000 trucks will be inspected one by one, causing delays. There’s lots of opportunities for weapon and militant smuggling, which Israel will create measures against. A ship will be inspected once, offshore, with little opportunity for smuggling.
Trucks are on local roads in local towns, in the crosshairs of trigger happy Israelis. A ship on a wharf is farther separated
The goal is to get aid to Gazans, but we need to face reality on the obstructions. We don’t need to blame an action we disagree with but get around it. Ships can get more aid to Gaza ’s from far off countries, and with less reason for Israeli interference
Would Israel really interfere less?
Israel has had control of the sea and air space since the blockade, preventing humanitarian aid shipments from arriving and enforcing a 6 nautical mile zone for only fishing boats. Even with international pressure, good chance they will delay these shipments as they have the trucks.
Humanitarian Aid trucks have always been inspected by the IDF since the Blockade, and used it to limit basic necessities and reject many items Israel deemed 'dual-use.' Yet with those restrictions they allowed in more than 500 aid trucks a day to help with the humanitarian crisis caused by the blockade. Israel's prevention of humanitarian aid is deliberate and controlled.
Even when the IDF is letting aid trucks in now, they still prevent many basic necessities. The port may help but millions are on the brink of starvation, with dozens of people already dying of starvation. They need those aid trucks now, the US absolutely has the soft power over Israel to do so.
Your arguments are weak, you're also playing a guessing game, while people are suffering. Smuggling might be an issue, but the bigger fucking issue is the famine...
No, I’m not saying smuggling weapons is an issue, I have no way of knowing. I’m saying that Israel will use that as a reason for slow inspections and other delays, legitimate or not. I’m saying they can’t use this excuse for a ship coming directly from a neutral country where the whole ship had been inspected by them
The question is what is the goal here. Is it to help Palestinians or israel?
We already know the answer to that. They aren't ready to give up on their precious little Zionist crusader state just yet.
Reminder that this pier was Netanyahu's idea.
I feel like this source might have its own agenda to push
Years before the Gaza war, Israel Katz, now the Foreign Minister, had drawn up plans for a maritime route via Cyprus involving a floating island.
The project was never executed. But he revived it after the war began on October 7.
Israel is blocking aid trucks and making America pay for irrelevant construction projects.
The Jerusalem Post is an israeli outlet so it's shooting itself in the foot here. Also the fact that this plan already existed and does not seem to actually resolve the hunger crisis in any meaningful way says a lot.
Yeah the 3 paragraphs about how delicious Ritz crackers are was confusing as hell.