• Sami@lemmy.zip
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    5 months ago

    How do you get the materials in to build a pier? That should answer your questions if they are in good faith.

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      5 months ago

      The US military is building the floating pier with materials they get from the US taxpayer. If you’re trying to argue it’s a waste of tax dollars, its not.

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        5 months ago

        I’m talking about the logistics of physically bringing in the building materials

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          They already have methods and resources to build temporary piers, as logistics is a crucial part of war fighting.

          A ship with the resources and egineers needed to build a temporary was basically already waiting to go when this decision was made.

          So the logistics is already a solved problem.

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            A crucial part of warfighting? They are building a port purportedly to feed the people that their closest ally is deliberately starving by denying aid that Israelis have engineered to be necessary for their subsistence.

            Do you think the ships will not be docking in Israel and that nothing will be transported by land through crossings? The same crossing that Israel uses to move their armed forces, weaponry and supplies through on a daily basis. Somehow those crossings will be completely off limits for the same US military that helps Israel coordinate a lot of their military operations and logistics.

            I don’t understand how you can fail to see the absurdity of this situation. It’s been 7 weeks since they announced their plans and so far no construction has begun and a ship has had to return to the US due to a fire. Even if they do get something built, there will still be the need to operate and deliver the aid from the pier to the interior of the enclave with… trucks.

            • 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】@lemmy.world
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              5 months ago

              Yes, building floating piers and bridges are basic Army functions and the US military has been doing it for hundreds of years since inception, literally back to the Revolutionary war.

              Yes, the same roads the IDF uses will connect to the pier, and they will use trucks to distribute the supplies, obviously. How else would they do it? What other roads would they use?

              Yes, it has been seven weeks of a plan they said would take at least eight weeks.

              Man, you really should approach your news diet more rationally.

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                5 months ago

                The same roads they can use to let in aid trucks without any of these theatrics. Should the UN officials also “approach their news diet more rationally”? Please realize that outside of your western bubble you are completely isolated in your viewpoints on the ongoing ethnic cleansing.

                • 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】@lemmy.world
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                  5 months ago

                  Apolitical UN employees and everyone else should stop reblogging every single unattributed report from Hamas members and sympathizers no matter how sensational and unbelievable the claim is.