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Israel's Latest Crime? Feeding the People of Gaza


(Spiked-UK) Brendan O'Neill - Israel is behaving criminally again. It is trampling even harder than usual all over international law. What inhuman act has the pariah state committed now? It is seeking to feed the people of Gaza. The Jewish state, in tandem with the U.S., has launched the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation to get foodstuffs to the people of Gaza. You would think the activist class would be pleased at this news. They've been rending their garments for months over an alleged tyranny of famine in Gaza. Alas, they hate this initiative, because Israel is behind it, and everything Israel does is evil. After a year-and-a-half of this infernal war Hamas started, this should be cause for celebration. Gazan lives have been sacrificed by Gaza's autocratic religious regime at the altar of its racist crusade against the Jews' homeland. Why does this aid initiative feel "so problematic," asks one headline? It's because the Jewish state is spearheading it. What's really bugging the anti-Israel elites is that this uppity little state has the temerity to circumvent the UN and put grub directly into the hands of Gazans who need it. An AP headline said, "UN agencies warn that Israel's plans for aid distribution will endanger lives." Drink in the Orwellianism of that. Providing aid is deathly now. Feeding the hungry kills. The doublethink of Israelophobia has rarely been so beautifully illustrated. War is peace, freedom is slavery, giving people the essentials of life will end their lives. Imagine the arrogance and outright inhumanity it must require to wring your manicured hands over the delivery of life-saving aid just because you hate the state that's delivering it. In these people's eyes, if Israel bombs Gaza in pursuit of the Jew-hating militants that attacked it, that's a war crime. But if it pleads with civilians to flee before it drops its bombs, that's a war crime, too. Yet when it brings in truckloads of necessities, that also "endangers lives." Israelophobia is underpinned less by an opposition to war than by a frothing, post-truth hatred for the world's only Jewish nation.
2025-05-29 00:00:00
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