If there is one thing that makes your hair stand on end, it is the constant images of children dying of hunger in Gaza, at the express wish of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his predecessors, with the complicit silence of the majority of the Israeli population, totally uninformed, and Germany's incomprehensible position of not condemning this savagery, due to its guilty conscience about the Holocaust. A disgrace for the whole of Europe, in which it must be acknowledged that the Spanish government has stood up from the very beginning.
Six years ago, under the title of Starve to death, I published a long book in which I explained how famine could be planned as a political punishment, or due to political negligence, incompetence, and lack of interest on the part of those in power toward the population. I counted about 50 cases in recent years, an outrage, which already included Gaza. The problem, therefore, is not new, although it is more serious than six years ago. In 2018, the United Nations already warned that what What Israel was doing to Gaza was condemning it to extinction.
Let's go back a little further. In 2002, the FAO warned of rising hunger in Gaza and a serious food insecurity situation. In 2004, Israel began building the walls of shame in the West Bank, before Hamas won the elections. In 2007, Israel began its land, air, and sea blockade of Gaza, and the following year it began destroying its basic infrastructure, including agriculture, electricity, and water. By 2009, Gaza was already without drinking water, and all this before Netanyahu was appointed prime minister. After that, things got worse. There was a long-standing strategy to gradually kill off the population of Gaza, which was considered "expendable.", and this was done by seizing the few productive lands, limiting fishing, and prohibiting the purchase of food abroad. Thus, their food depended on purchases from Israel to 95%. In 2018, the FAO estimated that 54% of the Gaza population was undernourished.
This permanent, institutionalized dehumanization is what has now become ethnic cleansing, mass deportation, and the ruthless destruction of the Gaza population. It is carried out in two ways: with bombs and by causing starvation. Also presenting Palestinians as religious enemies, calling them "Amalek," the biblical enemy of the Jewish people who were to be exterminated. Behind what we see, there is also an attempt to "purify" an Islamic territory, thus mixing politics with religion, an explosive combination fueled by the influence of Jewish ultranationalism in the government, which demonizes the Palestinians.
According to a survey by Pennsylvania State University and Geocartography, published by Haaretz in March, 82% of Israeli citizens supported the expulsion of Palestinians from GazaWith this support, the Israeli government will not stop; it will continue to destroy, displace, and let them starve unless we take to the streets en masse, here and around the world.
