{"id":2292614,"date":"2024-07-11T12:18:01","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T16:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-230-million-gaza-pier-debacle-just-got-even-worse-permanent-disassembly-coming-soon-officials-confirm\/"},"modified":"2024-07-11T12:21:33","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T16:21:33","slug":"bidens-230-million-gaza-pier-debacle-just-got-even-worse-permanent-disassembly-coming-soon-officials-confirm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-230-million-gaza-pier-debacle-just-got-even-worse-permanent-disassembly-coming-soon-officials-confirm\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden&#8217;s $230 Million Gaza Pier Debacle Just Got Even Worse: Permanent Disassembly Coming Soon, Officials Confirm"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbidens-230-million-gaza-pier-debacle-just-got-even-worse-permanent-disassembly-coming-soon-officials-confirm%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2292614&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President Joe Biden&#8217;s failed pier\u200b project in Gaza, \u200ccosting $230 million of American\u200b taxpayer money, has been a disaster from the start. Despite being touted as \u200ba solution for delivering aid to\u200b war-torn civilians, the project \u2062was \u2062plagued \u200dwith problems and did\u200b not fulfill its intended purpose. The pier,\u2062 which was meant to \u2063be a symbol of Biden&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/2020-was-the-brian-stelter-of-years\/\" title=\"2020 Was the Brian Stelter of Years\">foreign policy success<\/a>, instead became\u200b a \u2064symbol of his failures. \u2064The decision to dismantle\u200b the pier permanently comes after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-mike-collins-channels-speaker-battle-frustration-through-memes-with-a-little-help\/\" title=\"Rep. Mike Collins expresses his speaker battle frustration through memes, seeking assistance.\">multiple\u2064 failed attempts<\/a> to repair it and\u200c make it operational. This project, along with \u2064other failures of the Biden administration, highlights the incompetence and misplaced priorities of the current administration. \u200dAmericans hope for \u200bchange come November.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"> <?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<header> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/commentary\/\">  Commentary <\/a>   <span> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/jsaunders\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <span>   By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/jsaunders\/%20\"><span>Joe Saunders<\/span><\/a> <\/span> <span>   July 11, 2024 at 6:55am <\/span> <\/span>  <\/header>\n<section>\n<p>President Joe Biden\u2019s pier project in Gaza is headed for the history books.<\/p>\n<p>The $230 million waste of American taxpayer money \u2014 \u201cplagued with problems since its inception,\u201d as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/07\/09\/politics\/us-pier-gaza-to-be-removed\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN<\/a> put it on Tuesday \u2014 never came close to being even a temporary solution to the obstacles of delivering aid to civilians displaced by the war between Israel and Hamas.<\/p>\n<p>But as a symbol of Biden\u2019s feckless failures in foreign policy, it\u2019s tough to beat \u2014 and Americans should be furious.<\/p>\n<p>The president announced the pier project in his State of the Union address in March.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">President Biden: \u201cTonight, I\u2019m directing the U.S. military to lead an emergency mission to establish a temporary pier on the Mediterranean on the coast of Gaza that can receive large shipments\u2026no U.S. boots will be on the ground.\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SOTU?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SOTU<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SOTU2024?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SOTU2024<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oEcSzbOojQ\">pic.twitter.com\/oEcSzbOojQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CSPAN (@cspan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cspan\/status\/1765943705666814418?\">March 8, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It was an obvious attempt to portray himself as the savior of Palestinians caught up in the fighting between the Israel Defense Forces and Islamic terrorists who launched the latest war in the Middle East with a brutal attack on Israel in October.<\/p>\n<p>It was a Biden kind of move \u2014 full of bravado, poorly thought out and ultimately a dismal failure that put American service members\u2019 lives at risk, squandered American taxpayer money and ended up making the world\u2019s only superpower look foolish and incompetent at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>Besides <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/bidens-failure-us-taxpayers-spend-another-22m-repair-gaza-pier-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">being inadequate<\/a> for the weather and water conditions on the Mediterranean, the pier was supposed to function in the middle of a war zone amid chaotic conditions where the aid it did manage to carry ended up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/report-pentagon-admits-us-built-pier-gaza-failed-provide-aid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">largely being looted<\/a> before it reached its intended distribution points.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/gaza-pier-humanitarian-aid-israel-3143130f56bbbc2c6ed30c5801a39a51\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Associated Press<\/a> reported plans to permanently disassemble the pier, noting that it had been removed for repairs on June 28 but was expected to be back in operation Wednesday. Then it was to be used only long enough to deliver aid that had stockpiled on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus.<\/p>\n<p>When that is done, within several days, according to the AP, \u201cthe Army will dismantle the pier and depart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Four officials confirmed the report, according to CNN.<\/p>\n<p>The AP report described the pier\u2019s failure with the kind of slant that\u2019s typical from the establishment media when it comes to Israel-Hamas reporting:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOfficials had hoped the pier would provide a critical flow of aid to starving residents in Gaza as the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/israel-hamas-war\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nine-month-long war drags on<\/a>. But while more than 19.4 million pounds (8.6 million kilograms) of food has gotten into Gaza via the pier, the project has been hampered by persistent heavy seas and stalled deliveries due to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pakistan-sets-deadline-for-illegal-immigrants-to-leave-the-country\/\" title=\"Pakistan has given a deadline for illegal immigrants to depart.\">ongoing security threats<\/a> as Israeli troops continue their offensive against Hamas in Gaza.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So, the security threats are supposedly the fault of \u201cIsraeli troops continuing their offensive against Hamas.\u201d They\u2019re not the fault of a terrorist group deeply entwined in a civilian population and using women and children as human shields.<\/p>\n<p>But not even establishment media bias can sugarcoat the failure of the president\u2019s Gaza pier \u2014 another humiliation on the world stage at the hands of the Biden administration.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not a debacle on the scale of the 2021 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/gen-milley-admits-certainly-possible-bidens-afghanistan-debacle-influenced-putin-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">retreat from Afghanistan<\/a>. It\u2019s also not the ongoing nightmare of the nation\u2019s southern border deliberately left defenseless as millions of \u201casylum seekers\u201d treat American law like used toilet paper while American taxpayers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/biden-admin-handing-smartphones-like-candy-illegal-immigrants-costing-taxpayers-millions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pay for the privilege<\/a> of their country being invaded.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s a perfect symbol of the Biden approach to the presidency in a microcosm.<\/p>\n<p>It wasted the money the government collects from Americans. It put the greatest military the world has ever seen into an embarrassing, unwinnable situation.<\/p>\n<p>And it was done solely for political purposes \u2014 the Biden re-election team\u2019s hopes of easing criticism from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/squad-leftist-rashida-tlaib-turns-biden-dem-primary-now-choice-make\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pro-Hamas left<\/a> in American politics that the president is helping Israel too much in its battle for existence against Islamist savagery.<\/p>\n<p>And now, it\u2019s officially a failure that will soon be gone.<\/p>\n<p>As a symbol of the Biden White House, it\u2019s tough to beat. 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Please don\u2019t let the America-hating left win. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?hosted_button_id=BM6XAWRJ8NS7A&#038;utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><i><span>Stand with us today<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>!<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/body><\/html><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden&#8217;s failed pier project in Gaza, costing $230 million of American taxpayer money, has been a disaster since its inception. Despite being touted as a solution to aid delivery for civilians displaced by the Israel-Hamas conflict, it was inadequate for the conditions and ended up being looted before reaching its intended recipients. The project has now been deemed a failure and will be dismantled, symbolizing the Biden administration&#8217;s incompetence in foreign policy. This project, like many others under Biden&#8217;s presidency, was a waste of money, put American service members at risk, and was done solely for political gain. It serves as a perfect example of the administration&#8217;s failures and Americans can only hope for change come November<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2007,"featured_media":2292615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Biden-Pier.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3620,10896,34655,34656],"class_list":["post-2292614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-biden","tag-debacle","tag-gaza-pier","tag-permanent-disassembly"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Biden-Pier.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2292614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2007"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2292614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2292614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2292615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2292614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2292614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2292614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}