Biden’s Gaza pier project was an ambitious effort to open a direct channel to Gaza under U.S. military control and cut Israel out of the loop. It was also an utter disaster leading to one death and, we now know, 62 injuries.
The pier approach had not been intended for these conditions. Whoever chose to come up with and implement the idea had no understanding of the practical realities and the results were costly and horrendous.
During the mission, 62 personnel were injured, the Defense Department Inspector General said in its report, far more than previously disclosed. Army Sgt. Quandarius Stanley was critically injured in May 2024 in an accident involving a forklift aboard a Navy ship; he died five months later at a Veterans Affairs hospital.
The report underlines the questionable value of a mission that cost an estimated $230 million but failed to accomplish the goals outlined by the Biden administration and Pentagon officials. The pier mission ran for three months, but it was functional for only about 20 days.
More than two dozen watercraft and other equipment were damaged, causing about $31 million in repair and maintenance costs, the inspector general report found, citing numerous failings.
That’s on top of the $230 million mission cost.
Now there’s a lot of people on social media accusing Israel of getting America into wars, but Americans didn’t die or were injured fighting for Israel. They died and were injured trying to send supplies to ‘Palestinians.’
Israel doesn’t run American foreign policy. Islamic terrorist supporters do.
Daniel Greenfield
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
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