The US Empire is building a “temporary pier for aid” in Palestine. But let us call it what it is, a port for access—a port for profit.
To build this port trucks need to come in with supplies and equipment. Trucks that could have been bringing in aid.
This means that at any point ground aid was possible. Ground aid that Palestinians have been asking for for weeks.
So they’re building a port to bring aid on the ground even though all of the mechanisms already exist to bring in aid on the ground. If the U.S. Empire supported the ceasefire, they wouldn’t need to build a port. Palestinians have been asking for a ceasefire, not a port.
But what it comes down to, is the fact that a port is a point of access. It has always been a vital point of access, so much so that countries have gone to war over ports.
Empire has always built itself around ports and the control of them.
Also, a port is never temporary. Points of access through ports permanently change geography, land, travel, migration patterns, and the population around ports.
Finally, when one examines a map of the gas and oil development in the region it is easy to note that pipelines leading up to Gaza, the West Bank, and the sea will continue by the settler colonizers.
A port in Gaza means access for Empire.
Remember that Empire only helps when it gets something in return. And they’ve done this to countries around the world for centuries.
“Oh we will build a military base to ‘protect’ you,” a “We will hold an election in your country to elect the ‘right’ person,” or “We’ll give you aid by building you a pier.”
In every single one of those scenarios it benefitted the US Empire.
And now the US Empire has over 750 military bases in over 80 countries around the world, and has intervened in over 100 elections outside of the U.S.
So be clear. This isn’t about U.S. aid. This is about U.S. access.
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