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A Gaza Sea Port Theater
The stupid idea of building an 'emergency' sea port in Gaza gets sold as being somewhat in defiance of Israel's genocidal blockade of Gaza:
The details for the pier and causeway plan, President Biden’s latest idea to get around Israel’s blocking of aid deliveries via all but two land crossings, were outlined by the Pentagon press secretary, Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder, in a news conference on Friday.
Aid organizations have welcomed the plan, which was announced on Thursday, days after the U.S. military began airdropping supplies into Gaza.
The whole idea of the port is in fact an Israeli one:
The plan for a maritime route to Gaza via Cyprus to provide humanitarian assistance for Palestinians was initiated by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in collaboration with US President Joe Biden, a senior diplomatic source told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday night.
"Netanyahu took the initiative to establish maritime humanitarian aid for the civilian population in the Gaza Strip, in collaboration with the Biden administration,” the source stated.
According to the source, on October 22, two weeks following the war's outbreak, Netanyahu discussed with President Biden the concept of "delivering humanitarian aid to Gaza via the sea, contingent on an Israeli inspection in Cyprus."
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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.
Biden is again following Netanyahoo's plans.
The route through Cyprus will allow for a more stringent Israeli control and easier shutoff of all supplies for Gaza. It will allow Israel to shut off all land routes into Gaza while burdening others with the consequences and costs of doing so.
The bigger idea behind this is that Israel will no longer be held responsible for its occupation of Gaza.
Biden could of course easily press Israel to change its behavior and to open all land routes to Gaza. The withholding of all U.S. military and financial support, even for only a week, would do wonders in that regard.
Alas Biden has been a livelong racist and Zionist and is way too old to change his ways.
Posted by: pq | Mar 12 2024 21:53 utc | 60
RE: “Which nations will step in to help the Resistance and force the Zionists to cease their Genocide and begin the process of dismantling Occupied Palestine?”
Posted by: karlof1 | Mar 12 2024 15:46 utc | 22
In your reply to karlofi you write:
– What is needed is NOT for nations to step in to support Palestine but for those nations that have been supporting Israel to step OUT: European countries, US, Canada, Oz.
– The Global South has stepped in to the extent possible but the entire legal disorder is set up to ensure that it can’t do anything without Israel’s neighbours setting their own houses on fire first.
Most people understand that those supporting Zionist Israel can end the genocide and its colonial, racist, supremacist expansions project by stopping their support. The supporters and enablers of the genocidal attack on the Palestinians have, however, demonstrated in word and deed that they will not, and have no intention of ending their complicity in the ongoing mass murder operation and the ever-evolving schemes to ensure Israel’s existence and domination in the region.
Therefore, you are wrong.
The ‘Global South’ (a highly loaded colonial-mind set-term that should be abandoned) has not done anything effective.A dispassionate look at the big picture clearly shows that both sides – the criminal minority of rich states in decline, and the majority, which includes some powerful and wealthy states, are using the existing order, including the UN SC powerlessness, as a cover. The first, to continue their support for the destruction of the Palestinian people, its historical monuments, places of worship, of education, of medical treatment, of culture and leisure, its productive land, in fact, its entire capacity for life and survival. The second just resort to the use of strong condemnations and hollow calls for stopping the carnage. But they never say WHO is supposed to stop it, and how.
I say, it is THEY. Because it is their foremost human and moral duty, and because THEY are stronger in every sense than the criminal, genocidal minority.
The responsibility squarely is on the majority. The majority does not want TO DO anything, for various reasons none of which are capable of releasing it from the responsibility, nor sparing it the ETERNAL SHAME and IGNOMINY it deserves based on human, moral and divine imperatives.
Only the Resistance Front is fulfilling its human and Godly duty to protect the innocent and unarmed from genocidal destruction and the diabolical aims of the mass murderers.
– On Russia, you are also wrong. Russia’s position on the settlement of the Palestine question has been publicly, clearly and repeatedly stated.
Based on its own interests, it has been active in (futile, UN-based quasi-legal) attempts to stop the mass murder.
It has also announced its wish to be a mediator, which is unlikely given the developments.
Russia is a European and Asian country in every respect. Russia belongs in Europe and Europe should embrace it.
But colonised, neoliberal and now fascist Europe is rejecting Russia and waging war on Russia alongside the US.
Hence, Russia was forced to turn its back on Europe and forge deeper ties in Asia, and elsewhere.
All that has been elaborated by Russian officials including Putin.
If the Western criminal regimes do not blow up the planet, Russia will one day again embrace its European identity and reclaim its place in Europe.
An important place, and a rightful place. We Europeans need Russia and all it means and has to give to our common, human future.
Posted by: JB | Mar 13 2024 11:46 utc | 91
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