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End Biden's Disastrous Floating 'Humanitarian Pier' Experiment Off Gaza's Coast. Now.

Guy Benson
Guy Benson  |  May 30, 2024 10:05 AM

As soon as this idea was announced, military logistics experts questioned it. Building, operating, and protecting a floating pier off the coast of Gaza was fraught with profound challenges and risks, they warned. Whether one chooses to ascribe good motives to the plan, or views it as an expensive and perilous experiment designed for election-related public relations, the $320 million taxpayer-funded project moved forward. The critics predicted that even if humanitarian aid were successfully delivered into Gaza, much, most or all of it would be stolen, principally by Hamas. 

The critics were right:

The critics predicted that Hamas (and possibly other hostile forces) in the region would take advantage of having a new, precarious US instillation in that dangerous neighborhood, making it susceptible to attack. The critics were right:

The critics worried that whether via enemy attack, or due to accidents associated with operating and defending this sort of floating infrastructure, Americans could suffer injuries or worse. The critics were right:

And the critics warned that even if everything else went off without a hitch, simply maintaining a floating pier in open water could be extremely difficult, physically. The critics were right:

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End this dangerous, humiliating fiasco.  Operations have been suspended, but that's not sufficient. The floating pier debacle was doomed from the start.  Americans are going to die there, at some point.  Enough: 


The United States should pressure Egypt to permit humanitarian aid to Gazans, but the pier is a failure.  I'll leave you with the latest bulletin on the Biden administration's foreign policy, published over the holiday weekend: