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Donald J. Turnip

Important Haartz piece

What Israel Must Do to Stop the Starvation in Gaza, Right Now

Israel needs to take a clear set of steps immediately, without shortcuts or compromise. Otherwise, masses will die of starvation

[https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-07-31/ty-article-magazine/how-to-stop-the-starvation-in-gaza-right-now/00000198-5f8f-dc50-a9bf-ffffd3740000](https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-07-31/ty-article-magazine/how-to-stop-the-starvation-in-gaza-right-now/00000198-5f8f-dc50-a9bf-ffffd3740000)

On Tuesday, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), a global initiative that monitors food insecurity, issued an alert: “The worst–case scenario of famine is currently playing out in the Gaza Strip […] and access to food and other essential items and services has plummeted to unprecedented levels.”

“We have many children now in our child protection services saying that they wish to die. In heaven, in paradise, there is food, there is water,” Rachael Cummings, humanitarian director for Save the Children International in Gaza, said during a briefing held that same day by the NGO.

“Yesterday, in the clinic, one of the things that struck me, not only was the sort of visual impact of seeing so many people extremely thin, it was nearly silent … because children cry, but they’re so exhausted, they’re so sick, they’re no longer able to cry,” Cummings continued. “And that, I think for me, was really one of the most significant things I’ve ever seen in my career.”

Almost all cases of mass starvation in the past hundred years have resulted from political decisions, not acts of fate. Humanity has made great strides in producing, preserving, and transporting food. Therefore, when a population faces a food shortage severe enough to cause starvation, it is because someone has decided to block access to food.

The situation in Gaza is likely the most extreme example of politically–driven starvation in the 21st century. Just an hour’s drive from Gaza, there are enough calories and nutrients, packed in sacks and containers, to feed its entire population. Yet, the Israeli government and the Israel Defense Forces have chosen to prevent Gazans from accessing that food.

The starvation began officially and explicitly on March 2 and, as of this writing, continues. Ending the famine is also a political decision—one that, as of Wednesday morning, has not yet been made. Despite statements about easing restrictions, “humanitarian pauses,” and airdropped aid, there has been almost no meaningful increase in the flow of food into the Strip.

We need a Richard Nixon of the left

Is it a hot or cold take to say that its way too easy to adopt a dog

Remember it is your god given right to mock shitlibs and neocons who carried water for Bukele

“He’s solving crime you fucking woke idiot”

“You’re just a naive westerner who doesn’t get it”

Don’t ever let them forget this shit. Neocons are irredeemable so make sure to let them know what you really think about their degenerate ideas.

This DT is the best one yet