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@ 🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit
2024-05-19 20:10:13This free newspaper was created 10 weeks ago in response to the announcement that U.S. troops would be deployed to Gaza. The Army's 7th Transportation Brigade from Langley and the Navys's Beach Group 1 from Coronado were to work together constructing a pier, which has now been completed, to start delivering supplies to the people of Gaza, who are crammed into a small strip of land with not enough food or water, not enough medicine, not enough buildings left standing, and no way in or out.
This is a dangerous operation for the U.S. military. These Army soldiers and Navy sailors are willing to face sacrifice because they believe it will contribute to the prosperity of their loved ones, and many of them believe they're doing the right thing for the entire world. In poorly-planned attempts to protect people they care about, they're prepared to sacrifice themselves, or any targets they find themselves in combat with.
Those in command must be committing to the idea that the work they're doing will make things better. Indeed, perhaps this pier could make one good thing happen: maybe being deployed there could prompt military enlistees to think more about why Julian Assange and American folklore hero Edward Snowden haven't been granted Presidential pardons. Of course, command tries to avoid letting enlistees think too much, and the deployment is so far restricted to the offshore pier with no field trips into Gaza itself. That might be for the best anyway. Right after being completed, the pier has been involved in 1 addition to the death count in Gaza. Reports from Al Jazeera and CBS mention warning shots fired from tanks with Israeli flags and crews, also supplied by the U.S. military industrial complex. No recording seems to be available, but one video of the delivery convoy does feature audio of what sounds like gunfire.
The announced goal is for this pier to supply the 2 million people in the Gaza Strip with 150 trucks a day. Would that be enough to restock the 3,200 restaurants in Maine, a state of about 1.4 million people? What if we add all the grocery stores? Would there still be space for the pharmacies and hospitals after that? Is it safe to assume humans are done trying to hit each other with projectiles, or do modern communities like Maine still use supplies for training and deploying people to enforce their jurisdictions in case of war, or crime, or war crimes? Would a place with as many people as Maine have any other places that might need supplies, like schools or hotels, or are there too many bombs going off everywhere for stuff like schools and hotels to keep operating anyway?
Maine is lucky to have enough land for the people to grow enough crops. Some of the adults and kids dying in Gaza are dying from not having enough food. Survivors are living on one minimal meal each day. Nothing has been allowed in over land for weeks, with Israeli protesters burning trucks full of food that were on their way. 🇪🇬Egypt, bordering Gaza to the south, is also currently refusing to help.
