Biden's building Hamas a nice Freedom Dock by which he can deliver taxpayer-paid goods so that they can be distributed among Hamas terrorist fighters in their spiderholes.
CMDR Salamander, quoting terrorist news service Reuters:
The U.S. military will build a temporary port on Gaza's Mediterranean coast to receive humanitarian aid by sea, President Joe Biden said in his State of the Union speech on Thursday.
Planning for the operation, initially based on the island of Cyprus, does not envision deployment of U.S. military personnel in Gaza.
Relax, guys, Democrat-dominated military planners "do not envision" US soldiers being deployed as "peacekeepers" and palace guards and human shields for Hamas, so what are you worried about? What more reassurance do you need than "does not envision"?
Biden's announcement came as he seeks to cool anger among many in his Democratic Party over his support for Israel in its offensive in Gaza since Oct. 7, given the steep toll on civilians in the Palestinian enclave.
Oh, that. Why I'm sure Biden made this decision without any concern for the Michigan polls.
The post has good details about how the Army's navy (yes it has its own small navy) goes about erecting a port.
This will take about 1,000 personnel to accomplish. I don't know a single maritime professional who thinks this is a good idea given the location and conditions ashore, but orders are orders....
As for my general thought on doing this? I'll avoid the politics as much as I can, but I have concerns.
Generally speaking, no operation starts out on the right foot with a lie.
"We're not planning for this to be an operation that would require U.S. boots on the ground," said a senior administration official.
I'm not mad at the official. They are just making sure their statement is in line with higher direction and guidance. President Biden was clear in his SOTU speech;
The United States has been leading international efforts to get more humanitarian assistance into Gaza. Tonight, I'm directing the U.S. military to lead an emergency mission to establish a temporary pier in the Mediterranean on the coast of Gaza that can receive large shipments carrying food, water, medicine, and temporary shelters.No U.S. boots will be on the ground.
You cannot build a pier, even JLOTS, without putting boots on the ground. Just look at the above picture again.
Did no one brief the President or those who approved the speech even this one little slide? [See slide in CMDR Salamander's post.]
I feel real sorry for the Operational Planners.
In an area thick with poorly controlled hostile forces with everything from snipers to ATGM, how do you work this force protection problem?
What are your ROE if you take fire? What if you are confronted with a wave of people wanting refuge on the ship? What if ship's company goes missing ashore?
Meanwhile, our Deep State is attempting to engineer another Color Revolution like the ones they led in Ukraine and Egypt.
This time, the target for Regime Change is Israel, because Netanyahu is angering the Hamas Wing of the Democrat Party (which is pretty much the entire Democrat Party).
The US intelligence community assesses Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's "viability as a leader" to be "in jeopardy," according to its annual report on the national security threats facing the United States that was presented to Congress on Monday.
"Distrust of Netanyahu's ability to rule has deepened and broadened across the public from its already high levels before the war, and we expect large protests demanding his resignation and new elections," according to the report. "A different, more moderate government is a possibility."
Doesn't he look tired?
So what are the Palestinians doing to justify this level of Regime support?
Oh, well, what they always do -- plot terrorist bombings against innocent civilians.
Eylon Levy
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BREAKING: Israel just thwarted an immediate Palestinian suicide bombing.
In a joint IDF and ISA counterterror mission, Jenin resident Muhammad Jabar was eliminated in the town of Zeita while on his way to Israel to carry out a suicide attack in the immediate future. Jabar was armed with a weapon and a ready-to-use explosive device.
Meanwhile, three Palestinians were arrested in Italy for plotting a terror attack. The attack was planned for another country; maybe Israel, but who knows? Why would they have to plan an attack on Israel from Italy? They have terrorists right next door to Israel.
Italy arrested three Palestinians suspected of planning terrorist attacks in an unspecified country, Italian police reported on March 11. In the Italian city of L'Aquila, the suspects allegedly established a cell connected to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, an armed group linked to the Palestinian faction Fatah. Israel, the European Union, and the United States have designated the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades as a terrorist organization. "The suspects engaged in proselytism and propaganda ... and planned attacks, including suicide attacks, against civilian and military targets on foreign territory," Italian police said. Israel has requested the extradition of one suspect, who was already wanted, and Italy is reviewing the request.
"It is rare for terrorist organizations such as the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades to orchestrate schemes to target civilians on foreign soil. However, this heinous plot serves as a stark reminder that this group and its affiliates in the West Bank and Gaza are not 'resistance fighters,' as they claim to be, but cold-blooded terrorists with the sole purpose of inflicting death and destruction." -- Joe Truzman, Senior Research Analyst at FDD's Long War Journal
Meanwhile, Hamas' sister terrorist organization Hezb'allah, also funded and directed by Iran, is ramping up terror attacks during Ramadan, a holiday in which cowardly westerners have decided they may never attack Muslim terrorists, while Muslim terrorists gladly use the holiday for attacks on the West.
So much for that strange demand that Israel observe Ramadan during its war against Hamas and other Islamist terror networks. Hezbollah has 'celebrated' Ramadan by increasing the pace of its attacks in the north of Israel, ramping up the intensity of both sides. Overnight, Hezbollah launched over 100 rockets at Israel, prompting another round of answering attacks on their positions:
[Jerusalem Post:]
Israel responded with several strikes on Hezbollah infrastructure in Lebanon after alarms sounded in the Galilee and the Golan Heights as two barrages of at least 100 rockets in total were launched at northern Israel on Tuesday morning, the IDF reported. The first round contained 30 rockets, and the second round contained 70.
Crashes were reportedly sighted in open areas near Ein Kuniya, Snir, Sha'ar Yashuv, and Kfar Szold.
Hezbollah said it fired these Katyusha rockets in response to Israeli bombardment of the Bekaa region Monday night, Reuters reported.
The IDF responded by attacking rocket launch posts in Lebanon that had fired towards the North. A military compound in the Khiam area was struck, and terrorist infrastructure in the Bint Jbeil area was also struck on Tuesday, the IDF reported.
Consider Hezbollah's explanation an example of the Mom He Hit Me Back! genre of spin. Hezbollah has launched rockets at northern Israel since the start of the Gaza operation, clearly wanting to divert some of Israel's defenses to its north to slow down the offensive against Hamas in the south. It has worked to some degree but not nearly enough, as Hamas' rapid collapses in Gaza City and Khan Younis proved. The attacks on Bekaa on Monday came as retaliation for attacks by Hezbollah, and so on ad infinitum, or at least ad October 7.