The final decision of the United States to abandon the floating pier for delivering humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip and to dismantle it entirely, has put an end to one of the greatest farces of the Biden administration.
The pier, which President Biden announced with pompous importance as if it were saving the world from an alien invasion and cost the American taxpayer hundreds of millions of dollars, will quietly disappear and leave behind nothing but a big farce. However, the saga of the pier is a perfect metaphor for the dire state of the Western elites under Biden and his ilk, because this story embodies everything that is wrong with them and their way of thinking.
Let's start with the fact that the pier project was unnecessary from the outset. If decision-makers in Washington had seriously examined the claims of "starvation in Gaza," they would have discovered they were baseless and stemmed from a desire to blacken Israel and whitewash the October 7th massacre and its supporters, presenting them as victims. But in Biden's world, facts are neither important nor necessary. Thus, a loud campaign about "babies dying in Gaza" was enough for the president of the world's greatest power to deal with a nonexistent problem instead of investing in addressing real threats, such as the jihadist threat.
The additional sin reflected in the decision-making process regarding the construction of the pier is the sin of arrogance - the arrogance to think that the office dwellers in Washington know better than the "natives" in the Middle East, both Jews and Arabs alike, what is right for them. This sin worsens when decision-makers mistakenly believe that throwing money at a problem can achieve any goal.
In real life, it's the opposite: if you go in the wrong direction, generous funding distances you from the target. As a result, we get real monstrosities, like UNRWA, which, thanks to billions in funding, mainly from Western sources, has become a tool for perpetuating the refugee status and bashing Israel. If these billions had been used to resettle the refugees from Israel and their descendants in other Arab countries or even directly distributed to the refugees, the refugee problem would have been off the table ages ago.
Today's Western elites love to fall in love with erroneous concepts, fuel them with enthusiastic speeches, and allocate financial resources on a mythical scale - only to quickly discover that they do not work at best, or, more commonly, work against them at worst. Examples abound, and the most dangerous of all is the decision to open Europe's borders indiscriminately to waves of Muslim immigrants (again, without fact-checking and based solely on a mistaken concept), which could still undermine the pillars of the free world in the old continent.
In this context, the pier farce pales in comparison to the delusional concept of "two states for two peoples," which the same circles in the West have been trying to impose on us for years. At least in the case of the pier, the world lost only money, not innocent blood, which is spilled on the altar of the "Palestinian state." Instead of identifying the root of the problem in the Arab unwillingness to accept the existence of the Jewish state, Biden and his ilk continue to build on imaginary floating piers, which in the end might yet sink them.
