US President Joe Biden (Reuters)
In his State of the Union address last week;
The world was surprised by US President Joe Biden’s decision to quickly establish a military seaport in Gaza.
To facilitate the delivery of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip.
Only a few days passed until the Israeli newspaper “Jerusalem Post” published on March 11, 2024, quoting a high-ranking Israeli official, that “The plan to establish a sea route to Gaza via Cyprus to provide humanitarian assistance to the Palestinians was initiated by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in cooperation with the American President.” Joe Biden,” two weeks after the outbreak of war, that is, five months before President Biden’s decision.
So why did Biden delay so long?
What are the real motives for this project?
If Netanyahu is keen to deliver humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, why has he delayed the introduction of ground aid until now?
What does Netanyahu aim to achieve through early planning to establish a port in the Gaza Strip?
What is the relationship of this project to the war goals that he has announced and has not yet announced?
What happened that made Netanyahu and Biden rush to establish the port?
Lie without limits
It was not just an idea that Netanyahu presented to President Biden, but rather it was an integrated plan that Netanyahu began working to implement early. The newspaper reported, citing its high-ranking source, that Netanyahu presented the main lines of this strategy to Cypriot President Christodoulides, at the end of last October, after... His conversation with Biden, and that Netanyahu spoke with Biden again on January 19 in the same plan, and suggested that he form a team to explore maritime supplies through Cyprus, stressing that a comprehensive examination of all goods that will be sent to the Gaza Strip.
On November 20, the American Associated Press broadcast the statement of the Cypriot president, in which he expressed his country's immediate readiness to ship large quantities of humanitarian aid to Gaza.
As a feasible means to significantly supplement the flow of aid to the Strip across the Egyptian border.
And he said;
Planning for this corridor is essentially complete, and aid could start flowing when a cessation of fighting is declared. He stated that he had been in regular contact with Benjamin Netanyahu about the proposal, and that everyone supports this initiative: the European Union and the United States.
The agency quoted the spokesman for the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, citing his country's firm support for the project.
What was Netanyahu's goal behind this early planning to establish a port in the Gaza Strip?
What is the relationship of this project to the war goals that he has announced and has not yet announced?
What happened that made Netanyahu and Biden rush to establish the port?
Questions that may be difficult to find a definitive answer to, but what is certain is:
No matter how many answers there are, none of them will be Netanyahu and Biden’s eagerness to deliver aid to civilians and provide relief to women, children, the sick, and infants.
Why was President Biden's decision presented in this way, and shown as circumventing the obstacles that Netanyahu places in the way of bringing in aid from land crossings, while Biden is implementing Netanyahu's plan?
This confirms beyond a shadow of a doubt the involvement of the United States in thwarting the process of bringing in humanitarian aid from the land crossings, both southern and northern, and reveals the extent of the lies practiced by the United States, the Zionist entity, and their partners to create a hunger crisis in Gaza, create a UNRWA crisis, and suspend its work inside the Gaza Strip.
It is the same lie with which Netanyahu covered up what happened in the “Al-Aqsa Flood” attack, and the lie that has accompanied the political discourse in support of the Zionist entity since the first day of the invasion of the Gaza Strip.
He also revealed the real reasons for the farce carried out by the United States, France, and some Arab countries by dropping ready-meal boxes into the air, so that the hungry people rushing between the clutches of death could grab them.
Perhaps he will be rewarded with a stray meal that will satisfy his dependents.
Bringing out the decision to establish the port in this way;
It reinforced the views that there is a bank of undeclared Zionist-American goals that go beyond the limits of the tragedy of the genocidal war taking place in the Gaza Strip, and go beyond the limits of the declared goals of the war, related to eliminating Hamas and releasing prisoners and abductees.
Bank of unspoken goals
The presentation of Biden’s decision in this manner has reinforced the views that there is a bank of undeclared Zionist-American goals that go beyond the limits of the tragedy of the genocidal war taking place in the Gaza Strip, and go beyond the limits of the declared goals of the war, related to eliminating Hamas and releasing prisoners and abductees, and we demonstrate this by the following: :
The United States took this decision and began implementing it unilaterally outside the framework of the United Nations and the Security Council.
This is not something new for the United States when it intends to undertake any foreign adventures, as it did previously in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Why didn't the United States ask the United Nations to do this?
By what right and with what legitimacy does the United States attack the lands and territorial waters of the Gaza Strip?
The United States is not a neutral party, but rather a full partner of the Zionist entity in the genocidal war that the people of the Gaza Strip have been subjected to for more than five months.
If the United States is keen to protect civilians in the Gaza Strip, and if the rise in the number of Palestinian deaths to more than thirty thousand is troubling President Biden and his administration, then it is more important for him to issue an immediate ceasefire decision similar to the speed of the decision to build the floating dock.
The Zionist entity hastened with great enthusiasm to coordinate and cooperate with the upcoming American team to build the floating dock, and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and the Navy Commander, along with other relevant officials, work to do what is necessary to establish this dock;
Under the pretext of accelerating the process of distributing aid to the people of the Gaza Strip.
The European Union and Britain were quick to support President Biden's decision, and their willingness to cooperate in it, with the participation of a number of Arab countries, despite the sharp international criticism of this plan from United Nations organizations, and despite the United States and the European Union acknowledging that there is no alternative to land corridors.
It is unreasonable to believe that the United States, the international community and its organizations are unable to establish mechanisms that guarantee the introduction of aid in an organized humanitarian manner that reaches all regions, guarantees the protection of workers there, and takes into account all Israeli conditions.
The Zionist entity inspects aid containers entering the Gaza Strip by land, and has stipulated the same condition for the aid that will come via the American floating dock, and the inspection mechanism has already been arranged in cooperation with the Cypriot government.
The process of transporting aid by sea is considered more complicated than transporting it by land, more expensive and longer in time, and requires what transport by land requires, in terms of inspection, transport, storage, organisation, distribution and cadres. So why this enthusiasm, this speed and this Zionist-American, European and Arab agreement? To establish an American floating dock in Gaza?
This sea dock will be ready for operation in at least two months, while thousands of trucks are in Egypt, on the other side of the border, waiting to be allowed in.
This means that the human suffering in the Gaza Strip will continue, and that the war will continue with it until its declared and undeclared goals are achieved.
This reading forces us to move in two opposite directions: the first is the direction of going back to rethink the days that preceded the “Al-Aqsa Flood” attack, the information that Netanyahu had about the upcoming attack, and how the competent security authorities, led by Netanyahu, dealt with this information, and the level of military engagement. In the face of attack, and last but not least;
The nature of the military plan with which the Zionist entity responded to the attack.
This reading also forces us to move forward to find out the scenarios for the final chapter of this war.
The question remains: What are Netanyahu’s motives behind establishing this port?
Why was there no specific official position issued by Hamas regarding this project?
This is what we will try to answer next week, God willing.
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