Image by Mohammed Ibrahim.

The starvation and genocide in Gaza and Israel’s unconstrained colonial and imperial arrogance have reached a point beyond redemption. Benjamin Netanyahu’s endless wars now bleed into Syria, attacking the heart of Damascus with absolute impunity. Meanwhile, the United States, supposedly the world’s leading superpower, remains tragically mired in subservience to successive Israeli governments, often sacrificing core American values and international law.

Nowhere has this dynamic been clearer than in Gaza over the past 21 months. Former President Joe Biden, alongside his Israeli-first Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, have repeatedly enabled Netanyahu’s most extremist and racist tendencies. One of the most absurd manifestations of this complicity was the construction of a floating pier, allegedly to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza. In reality, it was a PR stunt—a Netanyahu-devised diversionary tactic to deflect international diplomatic pressure and give Israel diplomatic cover while maintaining a genocidal starvation siege.

The Biden administration embraced the scam, and funded the pier with hundreds of millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars. It was a farcical undertaking from the start: a $320 million structure that took months of planning and military coordination. By the time the pier became marginally functional—enough days for a few photo ops—it was soon swallowed by the Mediterranean waves. The pier wasn’t just an engineering failure. It was a moral........

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