Gaza Hunger Games
So this was the plan all along?
Food distribution in Gaza by humanitarian groups appear in retrospect to be better times
Just time for a short post this morning but I need to write this down before my head explodes. Witnessing U.S-Israel mercenaries and soldiers repeatedly firing on hungry starving people at food distribution centers in Gaza has helped my perception of the chain of cause and effect come together. Prove me wrong?
pre 2023: Israel allows Qatar to provide funds to Hamas while it monitors preparations for a Gaza breakout event.
Oct 7, 2023: Hamas fighters break through the concentration camp fence to take hostages that can be exchanged for the thousands of Palestinians in Israel’s prisons; Israeli military responds killing hundreds of its own soldiers, civilians, and foreign nationals in a Hannibal directive operation.
Parking area of the Nova music festival is evidence that Israel, not Hamas, attacked these civilians — because Hamas lacks weapons that could do this.
Oct - present: U.S. ships the ordnance and Israel commences a saturation bombing campaign specifically targeting hospitals, ambulances, and health care providers as well as UNRWA staff and people gathering to receive food aid.
February 29, 2024 The first of many attacks which would be called “Flour massacre”
January, 2025 Israel declares UNRWA a Hamas-aligned terrorist organization and bans them from operating in Gaza
March, 2025: Israel tightens its ongoing blockade of Gaza to block any aid trucks with food and medical supplies.
April, 2025: International outcry as Gazan babies and children begin dying of malnutrition.
May, 2025: A few trucks are allowed into Gaza, carrying shrouds; the U.S.-Israel announce a new scheme setting up their own food distribution system with only a few centers in southern Gaza to concentrate those who can still be forced to migrate; U.S. private contractors i.e. mercenaries routinely open fire on people gathered to receive food.
https://x.com/arlertkun/status/1723688662330941713
June, 2025: The slaughter of starving children continues as the U.S.-Israel plan for land theft to build Mar-a-Lago on the Mediterranean. Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. shrug and take photos of themselves at brunch.
So, the plan to weaponize food in order to concentrate Gazans where they could be killed more efficiently was the genocidal plan all along. Prove me wrong?
Lisa, I've taught the Holocaust, and your question reminds me of a debate among historians: Did Hitler and the Nazis always plan to kill all the Jews, or was it the result of ad hoc decisions over time? Scholars still debate this.
Perhaps the debate is somewhat artificial in the sense that Hitler and the Nazis vilified the Jews, demeaning them, attacking them, dehumanizing them, establishing the conditions for genocide, which were linked to the need to win a war (Jews as an existential enemy that had to be destroyed, even Jewish children, i.e. they were all "guilty").
Something similar is happening with Palestinians in Gaza. I don't think Israel and the U.S. had a plan all along to concentrate them in Gaza and kill them. But all that's gone before this has created the preconditions for a final solution to the Gaza question.
When you vilify Palestinians, demean them, attack them, incarcerate them, dehumanize them, you establish the conditions for a genocide. Then you use the excuse of a "war" to drive the most radical solution--elimination--just as the Nazis used the excuse of World War II to eliminate the Jews (who, of course, posed no existential threat to Germany).
Within the Nazi government (and now within the Israeli government), extremists always come to the forefront. Many officials in Nazi Germany wanted to relocate the Jews, not kill them all, or they wanted to exploit them as slave labor before killing them. But the extremists--the ones who just wanted to kill them all--tended to win the argument. They were the most committed, most sure of themselves, the most radical. They tended to win the argument.
So, what's happening in Gaza has been the result of long-term dehumanization and propaganda coupled with ad hoc decisions that have run to extremes, because those who are most radical tend to win these "arguments." What is truly unconscionable is the eagerness of the U.S. government to provide Israel with all the weapons and diplomatic cover it needs to implement its final solution in Gaza. Whether the president is Biden or Trump, whether Congress is controlled by the Democratic or Republican parties, the policy and result is the same: a blank check to Israel to kill as many Palestinians as they want, justified falsely in "defending" Israel from Hamas.
The Nazis thought or said the Jews were out to destroy them (obviously the Jews were totally incapable of threatening the German war machine) so they tried to destroy the Jews.
The Israeli government says Hamas is out to destroy them (obviously Hamas is totally incapable of threatening the IDF war machine) so they're trying to destroy the Palestinians.
Genocide is sold as "defensive" and "necessary."
The parallels are there, yet few people want to see them.
There are no words anymore for this horror.
Thank you Lisa for being there and persisting.
Shared.