I keep seeing headlines about “food insecurity.”
SHUT UP
The word is “starvation”. Starvation. You media weasels.
Now despite what a lot of people think, starvation isn’t fast, and there were some stores, but those stores have run out.
So Israel is deliberately starving something like 1.7 million people, to death.
Meanwhile the only nation in the world trying to stop this is Ansar-Allah (the Houthis). And what is America doing? Sponsoring a ground invasion by the “official government” of Yemen.
The Houthis had no blockade during the ceasefire. When the Israelis announced they would cut off all aid to Gaza, the Houthis said they’d give them two days, then start up the blockade again. Which they did. (Note also that America offered Ansar-Allah an end to all sanctions, recognition and rolling the official government into them if they’d stop the blockade. So the Houthis are doing this at GREAT cost.)
People roll their eyes when Iranians and whatnot call America “the Great Satan” but… seems pretty accurate to me. Helping a genocide, and attacking the only nation in the world trying to stop the genocide.
One can always be “more evil’, but the US is pushing the boundaries here. Israel, of course, has been evil for every second of its existence and the national sport is “how can we be even more evil, while screaming “never again?”
The only good news is that America is speed-running imperial collapse. But even so, it’s likely to come too late for the Palestinians.
Revelo
Like I wrote previously, the best way to understand the non-response of USA and Western Europe to Israel is that Israel is a role model, gazed upon with admiration for daring to do and succeeding at doing what white colonialists in South Africa and elsewhere failed to do successfully.
This explains why so many self-proclaimed liberals/leftists, like the Democrats in USA Greens in Germany, are strong supporters of Israel. Unlike rightists, who are willing to keep undermenschen alive as slaves (hence Trump’s ethnic cleansing proposal for Israel), liberal/leftists want the undermenschen to disappear, other than a few pets kept alive to be paraded around for virtue signaling purposes, but liberal/leftists don’t dare admit their true desires and they want someone else to take care of making the undermenschen disappear so they can later virtue signal by condemning the disappearance. Same as ancestors of liberal/leftists were mostly silent when Native Americans were exterminated. And of course the German Greens are descendents of the Nazis.
Right now, USA and Western Europe are merely living vicariously through Israel, but eventually they will reproduce the story of the Palestinians in USA and Western Europe, using the Israel experience as a guide. This assumes Israel continues to be successful. Otherwise, USA and Western Europe will write Israel off as a failed experiment and look around for another role model.
Alan Sutton
Nice article Ian. We all still need to be outraged by what Israel is doing in Gaza, and the West Bank increasingly.
The Trump Tariffs/assault on legal norms government may also be designed to hog the headlines while Gaza is euthanased and Ukraine succumbs. Not its primary purpose but a nice additional effect.
Let’s not forget those poor Palestinians who are all being murdered, starved and relocated by those disgusting Israelis.
Nothing is hidden anymore. We are in the time of action.
Where is the resistance in the West? No doubt it will arrive, it usually does. Not a good time at all.