The daily reports about widespread starvation at the hands of the Israeli Defence Faorces and with approval of the Trump regime are heartbreaking.
Horrifying.
Infuriating.
Heartbreaking.
Preventable.
Evil, petty powerful men are making choices to literally starve hundreds of thousands of Palestinians for merely existing in an open-air prison and killing ground that Israel created and maintains with U.S. taxpayer dollars.
Let’s make the case as to why everyone involved with overtly and tacitly aiding and abetting widespread murder through hunger, an excrutiating and slow method of execution, should face war crimes tribunals and be subjected to a lifetime of solitary confinement with zero communicaton with the outside world, and barely enough food and water to survive.
Asking that people not be starved while running from Israeli bombs is a human rights issue. Human rights issues always begin with recognizing humanity. The failure to label the crisis as a human rights issue reveals that the perpetrators and the disinterested public do not consider certain brown people human.
If “hundreds of truckloads” are “waiting at the border,” why aren’t the wheels moving?
A terse report from NBC touches on “security concerns,” but the game of Israel blames the U.N. and the U.N. blames Israel continues.
Both organizations have dug in their heels and, at this point, those Palestinian lives are for slogans and posters and policies, but certainly not for the commendable act of helping forced famine victims live.
Every moment costs yet another Palestinian child a life snuffed out cruelly and too soon.
Europe said “Never Again.”
The mango tyrant in the United States shrugs and plays golf in Scotland.
Asia doesn’t care.
The Arab oil countries are too busy counting their bags of gold and their Rolex watches to give a damn about a people they have used as pawns for half a century.
Where are the churches?
Where are the mosques?
Where are the synagogues and temples?
Where are the Humanists?
Where is humanity?
Who is saying “Enough!”?
Today, six more children will die without a whimper, their bodies to starved of food and water to gather the energy to shed a tear or a cry.
The world shrugs.
N.B. The Associated Press has reported [Link] that Israel has allowed airdrops and some aid deliveries. Looting of the U.N. deliveries has already began in Khan Younis, and a reported 10 people were injured from the parachuted food crates.
It’s a drop in a bucket needed to keep 2.2 million people from starving to death.
History will not be kind, nor should it.
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/middle-east/gaza-food-starvation-aid-distribution-israel-rcna221225
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