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At big fanfare, President Biden ordered a pier, an artificial harbor, to be built to deliver aid into Gaza. It costs $340 million – 1,000 US military personnel involved.

The Mediterranean was, since antiquity, known as the “sea without wind” – hence the use of galleys with oars. No hurricanes, no tempests, normally not even storms.

The US pier was designed to break down.

Operational for less than two weeks, before a bit of “choppy waters” in the sea-without-wind destroyed it completely.

Those two weeks of operation were a scandal too: The first week only 71 trucks came through – that is, 10 trucks per day. And those 10 trucks were totally disorganized in delivering the aid. There are two million people starving in Gaza, and they need 500 trucks per day just to survive.

The US is a scandal – all ballyhoo and no good.

As I wrote on 10 May 2024, the US pier was planned to fail. No clear authority. No distribution plan. No risk handling. Everything was disorganized by the USA from the start. The US helps Israel carry out its genocide and wants no aid going into Gaza. If the US wanted aid to save Gazans from starving to death, it could just have insisted on opening one or more of the border crossings.

The US pier thus fulfilled its political purpose – it showed false US pretensions to help dying Palestinians – and it failed to do so.

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Karsten Riise is a Master of Science (Econ) from Copenhagen Business School and has a university degree in Spanish Culture and Languages from Copenhagen University. He is the former Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Mercedes-Benz in Denmark and Sweden.

He is a regular contributor to Global Research.