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Ping Tung

(3,455 posts)
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 02:25 PM Aug 23

After Gaza Famine Report, U.S. Is Mostly Silent and Israel Is Defiant

The forced starvation has gone from disgusting to grotesque..

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners. Albert Camus

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/world/middleeast/gaza-famine-report-us-reaction.html

The White House has not commented on a report finding famine in Gaza. Analysts say that absent U.S. pressure, Israel is unlikely to change course.ps://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/world/middleeast/gaza-famine-report-us-reaction.html

A report by a panel of food security experts that found famine in parts of Gaza prompted outrage from many European countries, but not from the United States, Israel’s main backer.

Neither the White House nor the State Department has directly addressed the report, which blamed Israeli restrictions on aid, among other factors, for the famine. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel on Friday called the report “an outright lie,” saying that Israel had “gone to unprecedented lengths to enable aid to go into enemy territory.”

Mike Huckabee, the U.S. ambassador to Israel, echoed Mr. Netanyahu’s criticisms on social media. “Tons of food has gone into Gaza but Hamas savages stole it, ate lots of it to become corpulent,” he wrote on X.

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After Gaza Famine Report, U.S. Is Mostly Silent and Israel Is Defiant (Original Post) Ping Tung Aug 23 OP
G.O.P. just waiting for the oceanview luxury condos BoRaGard Aug 23 #1
Bibi's Beachfront Hotel and Weight-Loss Center. Ping Tung Aug 23 #2
The word is malaise Aug 23 #3
Imagine sinking so low as a human being. AloeVera Aug 23 #4

AloeVera

(3,654 posts)
4. Imagine sinking so low as a human being.
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 06:05 PM
Aug 23

Willfully closing eyes and spouting lies to continue starvation and achieve "war goals" aka Greater Israel. Or the Second Coming and Armageddon. Ugh.

Netanyahu knows he is lying. Huckabee? He can't possibly be so stupid to believe a few thousand Hamas fighters are eating for 2 million. No, he doesn't. He's complicit.

As is everyone casting doubt on the IPC, the UN, Oxfam, WFP etc. AND on genocide scholars.

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