Note: I hope everyone had an enjoyable and safe Veteran’s Day.
The news just keeps getting more and more convoluted….it seems that Donny is will to spend $500 million for a base in Israel….
The US is planning to build a large military base in Israel on the Gaza border, according to a joint report from the Israeli investigative outlet Shomrim and the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth.
The report said that the construction of the base would cost about $500 million and would be designed to house thousands of US and international troops tasked with maintaining the Gaza ceasefire deal.
The US has already established a military outpost in southern Israel to oversee the ceasefire, known as the Civil-Military Coordination Center (CMCC), but the construction of such a large base would mark a significant escalation of the US military presence. It would also increase the US involvement in Gaza, where Israel is regularly carrying out attacks and killing Palestinians despite the truce deal.
“It’s hard to overstate the significance of building such a base,” an Israeli security official told Shomrim. “Since the Six-Day War, Israel has sought to minimize international involvement in the territories. The establishment of an American base on Israeli soil shows just how determined Washington is to be involved in Gaza and the broader Israeli-Palestinian conflict.”
The US has already deployed 200 troops to the CMCC, which has replaced Israel as the “overseer” of humanitarian aid deliveries into Gaza, according to a report from The Washington Post. Israel has continued to restrict aid deliveries to Gaza in violation of the ceasefire deal.
Shomrim said that it asked the US Embassy in Jerusalem for a comment on the report and was referred to the US Department of War, which in turn referred to US Central Command. Shomrim said it hasn’t received a response from CENTCOM. Antiwar.com has asked the State Department for a comment on the report and has yet to receive a reply.
Bloomberg later reported that the US military was exploring the possibility of building a “temporary” base capable of housing 10,000 people near Gaza. The report cited a Request for Information document dated October 31 that said the US Navy was seeking a cost estimate for “a temporary, self-sustaining military base of operations capable of supporting 10,000 personnel and providing 10,000 square feet of office space for a period of 12 months.”
In response to the Bloomberg report, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said, “This story is based on a single piece of paper produced by random people within the military. Such a plan has not been considered or approved by the highest levels of the United States government and should not be deemed as an official plan in the Middle East.”
(antiwar.com)
WTF? Why are we building a protection buffer for Israel? If they cannot do it themselves then f*c k them and let them disappear and do the world a favor.
Plus they are in charge of aid distribution….the very country that has caused the aid problems now in charge…..what sanity is this?
It is time for the US to step back and let Israel do shit for themselves or hold them responsible for their atrocities.
I Read, I Write, You Know
“lego ergo scribo”
Basically what it amounts to is more or less business as usual with this administration: No one knows what the hell is going on. Literally. This administration is full of loose cannons and extremists who can’t keep their mouths shut. They start babbling about things they personally would like to do without giving any consideration to what the WH might want and we end up with the WH having to scramble to try to figure out what the hell is going on and either cover it up or spin it in some way to their advantage.
Let’s face it, these people in the current administration don’t give a damn about Israel itself or Palestine. The only thing they care about is trying to take advantage of the situation to tighten their control over US government and expand their own personal influence. Put a world map in front of most of these people and I suspect they couldn’t even find Israel.
perfectly stated
GF I could not agree more……If the US is so efficient why is aid not getting through? chuq
“No one knows what the hell is going on. Literally.” It isn’t just the folks in Congress that have no idea “what the hell is going on.” With Trump, it’s a puzzle that never gets solved.
You can’t make this madness up. He is literally insane.
Seriously we cannot make this stuff up. chuq
That is going to amount to a lot of money for contractors and suppliers, many of whom will be great friends of the US and Israel, I suspect. It also sounds like the foundation of what could later become some kind of concentration camp for those survivors in Gaza.
Best wishes, Pete.
It smells like manure to me as well chuq