If all goes well, the U.S. military will soon be able to deliver two million meals a day to starving Palestinians.

If not, the mini-island or floating pier that the military plans plan to set up off the coast of Gaza will end up as another target for Iran’s proxy terrorist groups that have ravaged the region and killed U.S troops.

And thousands more Palestinian women and children will face death by starvation.

The U.S., under President Joe Biden, has dispatched Army and Navy ships along with a thousand troops to build the temporary facility that will serve as a holding and relay site for food and humanitarian aid shipped from Cyprus.

The temporary port is deemed necessary to ward off mass starvation among civilians in the wake of the Israeli invasion of Gaza and ongoing combat following the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack on Israel.

The fighting, which is the worst urban combat possible, has caused the death of thousands of civilians, many of whom lost their lives because Hamas has mingled in with them and used them as shields and pawns.

Humanitarian aid officials estimate that feeding the civilian population of two million in Gaza requires 500 trucks packed with food a day. However, only a small percentage of those trucks are getting through.

Israel has blocked roads in the northern part of Gaza while entrance in the south has been seriously curtailed. Israel believes that much of the humanitarian aid has ended up in the hands of Hamas.

It is estimated that the offshore steel structure, which Biden initially announced at his March 7 State of the Union address, will not be functional for another month or two, if then.

Once built, it will have a steel-structured floating dock offshore to which cargo ships will deliver their cargo. From there, smaller vessels would transfer the humanitarian aid to a floating pier. From the pier trucks would then drive the aid over an 1,800-foot causeway to the Gaza shore.

Since the best-laid plans of mice and men tend to go awry — as witnessed by the Israeli killing of seven aid workers — it would only be a matter of time before the Iranian-backed proxies like Hezbollah and Hamas attacked the stationary dock, pier, and causeway, along with the U.S. troops assigned there.

Even the Houthis, tired of missing moving vessels in the Red Sea, might find it easier to launch Iran-supplied missiles against a sitting target off the coast of Gaza.

While Biden has gone wobbly on Israel as Gaza civilian casualties have mounted, he has warmed toward the ultra-left members of the Democrat Party who support Hamas.

Being spineless, Biden has ended up trying to support both sides while angering both. They are the mostly Democrat and liberal Jewish Americans who support Israel and the increasingly vocal Democrat Muslim minority in key election states like Michigan who support Hamas.

Biden is fighting for re-election while the Israelis are fighting for existence.

Another president might have considered using those thousand U.S. troops to launch a rescue mission against Hamas to free the nine Americans that Hamas is holding hostage. But Joe Biden doesn’t rescue anybody.

All the while Biden gives Iran, the architect of terrorism in the Middle East and around the world, a pass. He appeases Iran, even as Iran proxies kill Americans and the ruling mullahs in Tehran promise to use the first nuclear bomb on Israel and the second on the U.S.

It was almost like the good old days when the Israelis launched a missile attack last Monday on the Iranian diplomatic building in Damascus, Syria, killing a senior Iranian general.

He was Gen. Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a leader of Iran’s Quds Force of the Revolutionary Guard Corps that is responsible for killing American soldiers in the region.

Zahedi’s death brought back memories of President Donald Trump’s decision in 2020 to kill Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the leader of the Quds Force, with a drone strike outside the airport in Baghdad. Soleimani had the blood of hundreds of Americans killed in Iraq.

Donald Trump pulls the trigger. Joe Biden fires blanks.

Peter Lucas is a veteran political reporter. Email him at: peter.lucas@boston herald.com