(Gatestone Institute) Bassam Tawil - The Biden administration has spent more than $300 million to construct a floating pier on the coast of Gaza to aid the local Palestinian population. Rather than expressing gratitude to the U.S., the Palestinians have publicly denounced the Biden administration and warned Arabs and Palestinians not to cooperate with the project. Hamas and other Palestinians have no problem taking the aid and at the same time cursing the Americans and threatening to target U.S. soldiers overseeing the delivery of the aid. They consider the presence of U.S. troops in the region as another form of "occupation" and an unwelcome intervention in the internal affairs of the Arabs in the Middle East. Their criticism of the U.S. pier is simply another example of their longstanding practice of insulting those who assist them. On May 18, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) said: "We warn any Palestinian, Arab or international parties against coordinating with the American administration or working in this port." The Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) said: "We view with great danger the American floating pier dock and warn against it....The pier is a service to the Zionist enemy and an act of propaganda and deception....Any American, Zionist, or other force present on any inch of our land will be a legitimate target for our resistance." Even the Palestinian Authority's ruling Fatah faction has come out against the U.S. pier. Fatah spokesman Abdel Fattah Dawla called the pier "a consecration of the [Israeli] occupation."
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