Port of No Return: The US Plan for Aid Relief in Gaza

1 The Trident pier rests on the shore of Fort Story after an attempt to 'stab the beach' during the preliminary stages of the Joint Logistics-Over-the-Shore exercise, Aug.17, 2012. [...] The Marshall Plan saved Western Europe from starvation and Soviet domination, but it came at a serious price: the US became intimately and inextricably involved in European affairs, effectively becoming "the most important country in Europe." The US Gaza port plan is the first step in a “Marshall Plan for Gaza.” It is the Port of No Return. [...] Similarly, in the early 1990s, the US initiated a humanitarian aid operation in Mogadishu, Somalia, to alleviate the severe famine and restore order amidst the country's civil war. [...] The US resolved to end the control of the warlords through military force, culminating in the infamous 1993 Battle of Mogadishu, vividly depicted in the book and film Black Hawk Down. [...] The US has achieved positive results in more recent HADR programs as well, including its responses to a massive tsunami in the Indian Ocean (2004), an earthquake in Haiti (2010), the massive Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines (2013), Cyclone Idai in Mozambique (2019), and a 7.8 magnitude earthquake in Turkey and Syria (2023).