Alex de Waal comments on the recent IPC report warning of famine in Gaza:
They could have stated the matter more simply. Mass death through starvation is the certain outcome of Israel’s continued blockade and ongoing military campaign. The only question is when.
The use of starvation as a weapon is a war crime. In addition to its frequent bombings of civilians, Israel is using starvation as a weapon to attack and destroy more than two million people. All of this has been extensively documented. It is all being done out in the open, but nothing is being done to stop it. The administration could force an end to it, but they have no intention of putting any pressure on Netanyahu to end the war or the siege.
It was galling to hear Trump talk about peace in his recent speech when he supported the resumption of the exceptionally brutal and destructive war in Gaza earlier this year. For all the talk of a rift between Trump and Netanyahu on other issues, the president seems to be very comfortable with the catastrophe that the Israeli government is causing. Trump denounced the folly of interventionists at the same time that his administration is enabling a genocide in full view of the world.
The man-made famine in Gaza should be the top story in the world. There is no more urgent humanitarian crisis anywhere on the planet. It is indictment of our political leaders and our media outlets that the deliberate mass starvation of more than two million people by a U.S.-backed government can happen with relatively little coverage and even less of a response.
Read the rest of the article at Eunomia
Daniel Larison is a contributing editor for Antiwar.com and maintains his own site at Eunomia. He is former senior editor at The American Conservative. He has been published in the New York Times Book Review, Dallas Morning News, World Politics Review, Politico Magazine, Orthodox Life, Front Porch Republic, The American Scene, and Culture11, and was a columnist for The Week. He holds a PhD in history from the University of Chicago, and resides in Lancaster, PA. Follow him on Twitter.
