@DrALJONES According to UNRWA, April averaged 183 trucks a day via land. May has averaged just 70 and almost all of that was before Israel seized the borders and halted almost all truck passage. Only 70 total trucks have been allowed through since then.
Basically, unless the pier averages 183 trucks a day, then it isn't even replacing what came through before. The US has also halted all airdrop efforts, which averaged less than 20 tons a day since March 02.
@DrALJONES There were simpler ways to bring aid in by water and WCK had their jetty operation more than two months ago. The new trident pier is right next to the jetty. The US could have used NGOs to ship in US aid from Cyprus at any point.
@DrALJONES Equally, the US has a tremendous airdrop capacity which went almost entirely unused during their PR show. The US has 600+ airdrop capable C-17's and C-130's and never used more than 4 of them in an airdrop and never made more than 1 airdrop in a day.
I kid you not, but Don Rumsfeld airdropped more aid over Afghanistan in one month in 2001 than Joe Biden has over Gaza.
@DrALJONES Just 17 C-130 flights a day from Cyprus or Jordan loaded with HDRs could have kept the north out of famine. That is two flights of 9 C-130's or 3 flights of 6. Very doable. The airfield they're using in Jordan is ~140 miles away. Cyprus is 250 miles. They chose to do a token airdrop effort for show rather than a earnest effort to deliver real relief when that was perfectly feasible.
@DrALJONES The total tonnage of food/water dropped by air by the US was 1220 tons according to US Centcom. The UK did about 120 tons. That is basically 1/10th of what the US Air Force and UK RAF did in a SINGLE DAY during the peak of the Berlin Airlift. And, in fact, by the second week of the Berlin Airlift, the US was delivering more tonnage daily to Berlin than the US of today did in 2 month and 1 week over Gaza.
@DrALJONES I am pretty confident that the American line is literally being negotiated through backchannels with Israel, even when they appear to criticise it.
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