Yigal Carmon, President of Arab media translation organization MEMRI and an observer of the Middle East for decades, argues in a daily brief that President Biden's proposal to build a temporary port off the Gaza coast to provide Palestinians with aid is a "miracle."
Carmon stated that by bypassing Hamas (which he said steals aid and then resells it to maintain itself), Qatar and Iran - as well as Egypt, which makes money off bribes to get aid in - America's direct provision of aid will help to strengthen the anti-Iran and anti-Hamas axis.
He also argued that the project will help reduce civilian casualties during any operation in Rafah, since the civilian population will now move to the port area rather than Hamas-controlled areas to get needed aid.
Defense Minister Gallant also expressed his enthusiastic support for the port initiative, saying that it would help to weaken Hamas by denying it a means of leverage over the population.
Others are more skeptical of the effort, especially due to the technical problems and danger involved. Maritime expert and observer Sal Mercogliano posted a thread on X/Twitter explaining the many hurdles Biden's port plan would face.
