Gaza Pier performing like Joe

Remember we saw the other day that Joe Piden’s Gaza support pier was having problems, and that some of the support craft were washed ashore?

Apparently that ain’t the half of it. Over the last few months we – meaning  Joe and friends – have dumped $320,000,000 into this floating pier designed to help the poor huddled masses of Palestinians caught in a war zone their leaders created. They elected Hamas, Hamas started  a war they shouldn’t have (both from a moral point of view and from a you-don’t-mess-around-with-Jim ya-picked-on-the-wrong-victim point of view. One must suspect their sole goal was to sacrifice tens of thousands of innocent civilians in a (pretty successful) campaign to turn Israel into an international pariah. But I digress.

Joe Biden decided to bend over and appease the leftist rabble he counts on for support, so that we had to build this floating dock so supplies could be brought in for relief for Gazan unfortunates (apparently forgetting that every dollar Hamas doesn’t have to spend on feeding the citizenry is another dollar they can pay for more Iranian weaponry.)

The pier, which cost $320 million, had only begun operating on May 17 when heavy seas forced the maritime shipments to stop one week later on May 24, two days before part of the pier disconnected. It is unclear when shipments will resume.

The temporary pier, called the Joint Logistics Over the Shore (JLOTS), requires very good sea conditions to operate. CNN reported previously that JLOTS can only be operated safely in a maximum of 3-foot waves and winds less than approximately 15 miles per hour.

Daniel Dieckhaus, the director of USAID’s Levant Response Management Team, told reporters Thursday that there were “thousands and thousands of tons” of aid waiting in Cyprus to be delivered through the maritime corridor. But those shipments are now paused with the temporary pier inoperable. CNN

Not entirely sure it is helping much anyway – multiple sources report that even when the trucks are loaded and able to get off this floating (well, part of it is) boondoggle, little to no aid can be distributed.

In the days after the pier became operational on May 17, trucks were looted as they made their way to a warehouse, forcing the U.N. World Food Program to suspend operations. After officials beefed up security, the weather turned bad. American officials had been hoping that the sea surges would not start until later in the summer.NY Times

So close to a third of a billion bucks now needs at least a week’s worth of repairs (elsewhere, naturally) before Joe can properly support Hamas can help the Gazans any more.

Gotta say, this column being about a Biden boondoggle, just made my 700th feel appropriate.

Category: "Your Tax Dollars At Work", Biden, Gaza 2023