Remember that $230 million ‘humanitarian pier’ that the Americans moored off the coast of Gaza? It was announced with great fanfare in Joe Biden’s State of the Union address in March. But earlier this month, the White House quietly mothballed the project. It had not been built to withstand inclement weather, you see, so sections of the causeway broke off and washed up among the sunbathers on Tel Aviv’s Frishman Beach. During the first week in which the pier had been operational, three-quarters of the aid it delivered had been stolen by unspecified Palestinians on the way to a UN warehouse.
Who would have thought that the administration responsible for the chaotic Afghan withdrawal would botch this project too? But if the pier succeeded in one way, it was in providing us with a metaphor for much of Joe Biden’s foreign policy.
Biden’s appeasement of Iran has led the regime to become more powerful than ever.
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