May 12, 2025
This is the saddest column I've had to write in fifty years: Two million Palestinians in Gaza, nearly half of them children, are now surviving eating once a day, if that, every two or three days. America's great ally Israel is imposing the starvation as a tool of war, something not even Nazi Germany forced upon conquered people.
Senior Israeli officials openly and unashamedly exploit starvation as a tactic to pressure Hamas to release the rest of the hostages. And yet not even Hamas has starved its hostages, unlike our great ally Israel. What boggles the mind is how Uncle Sam can allow this. We are supposedly a moral society, yet while children die of starvation, a headline in a conservative newspaper calls pro-Palestinian protesters the Ku Klux Klan in an article written by Douglas Murray, a Brit. Does protesting the starving of children a Klan member make? Have our values been so degraded that we can stand aside-we are actually helping Israel with bombs, armaments, and money-while this horrible crime is taking place? Despite everything I have written against The New York Times, the paper has courageously reported the horrors that Israeli soldiers are inflicting on unarmed Palestinian civilians in Gaza and in the occupied West Bank.
"What boggles the mind is how Uncle Sam can allow this."
Israel's clampdown on aid from nearby Arab countries and the United Nations is as evil a policy, as it is effectively about to kill an entire nation. And this is taking place while billionaire fat cats from America are meeting with the Saudi strongman. Is there no one close to The Donald to point this out? Have we all collectively lost our minds and morals? Don't these people realize that the ghosts of children starved will one day return to haunt them? Can Americans stand aside doing nothing while Netanyahu starves innocents to death and his media acolytes strangle the truth? How can this outrage take place in supposedly civilized 2025? Is the Jewish lobby so strong it can lull Americans and Europeans to sleep while children starve to death in Gaza? Is there no humanity left in the human race? Where are the do-gooders like Spielberg of Hollywood now that the children and women and old men in Gaza need them? How can the international Jewish community remain silent while an archcriminal like Netanyahu besmirches the Jewish name forever?
Since ending the ceasefire on March 18 with intense firebombing, the Israelis have pushed Palestinians in Gaza into smaller and smaller enclaves, thus expanding no-go zones into 70 percent of the territory. The occupying force has not created any humanitarian corridors, making relief workers even more liable to be killed by IDF fire. And it's going to get worse in the West Bank.
Israel is tightening its control in Jenin, with around 10,000 Palestinians having been forced out of their homes that have been demolished. Jenin and its neighbor Tulkarm are cities under the Palestinian authority, yet the IDF is treating them as if it were Gaza. Israel has killed more than 100 militants and arrested hundreds. More than 40,000 Palestinians have been displaced. Militant Israeli settlers are rubbing their hands waiting to settle in. Annexation of the West Bank is next, or so I fear. Half a million Israeli hard-line settlers and 3 million Palestinians live there.
So, what is to be done? I wish I knew. What I don't understand is how Trump cannot see this outrage and do something about it. How can Jews the world over not shout in shame that enough is enough? How can people eat their hamburgers in peace while children starve in Gaza? How can this be happening in supposedly civilized 2025? May God help us!
This article was originally published on Taki's Magazine.