That's the Supreme Court defending the starvation policy in Gaza. That exact court that liberal, progressive Israelis were fighting tooth and nail for during the last years, as the last bastion of democracy.
The opinion piece you link to is false in two respects: first, Israel has never had a starvation policy in Gaza, and second, the courts never defended the policy because it never existed.
Even now, during the ceasefire, Israel only allows goods in through Kerem Shalom and Kissufim and keeps the other crossings shut, even though aid organizations urgently demand that they must be opened. Explain to me why.
I see you're linking to some debunked articles about the gaza starvation hoax.
Do you seriously think Israel had a policy of starvation? Obesity is common in gaza; there are restaurants everywhere; there aren't any pictures of starving families; all the pictures of starving kids have turned out to be of kids with serious pre-existing conditions; there have been only about 200 malnutrition related deaths in two years of war in gaza, orders of magnitude less than here in the US. And no belligerent in the history of war has ever allowed in more aid to the opposing side than Israel.
I've heard those exact lines from several pro-Israeli commenters.
How would you even expect this to work? There was a two-year nonstop bombing campaign and an official "total blockade" for several months. How could there possibly be "restaurants everywhere" after that?
Also, Haaretz is an Israeli newspaper itself. Is the conspiracy running so deep?
"How could there possibly be "restaurants everywhere" after that?"
There are plenty of restaurants in Gaza, as a quick Google search will reveal, so this is a question for you to ask yourself. Perhaps your premise is wrong.
You're right, there actually are lots on Google Maps.
Except some of them would be beyond the Yellow Line, in the area where the IDF troops are and which is strictly off-limits for civilians. And none of them have any reviews that are newer than from two years ago.
(Compare with the markers on the Israeli side where the latest reviews are often just weeks or days old)
There are active restaurants in Hamas-controlled areas. There are hundreds of videos (and recent google reviews) proving this. Here's one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFjhyAsHYFo
Netanyahu in march officially ordered the IDF to block all aid [1] (though he later pretended he didn't [2]). That blockade was kept up for three months, until international pressure got too strong because even international staff reported being dizzy from hunger.
Where were all those restaurants getting their fresh meat and vegetables and chocolate sauce from after 3 months of blockade?
So either the IDF is grossly incompetent and can't maintain their own siege or that youtuber is lying and showing videos from before the war.
(I guess we have to extend "the enemy is both strong and weak" with "our own military is both strong and weak")
The videos also don't show even a hint of destruction, even though the restaurants are close to areas that were hit by airstrikes.
The youtuber was nice enough to include a callout of that in his own video, though I'm not sure he read it. [3]
Why would Gazans even put themselves at risk and go to the GHF distribution points if they could just go to the pizza place down the street?
> (and recent google reviews)
Then show me some from this summer, because I don't see any.
Btw, Israel is still partially blocking aid, this time with buerocratic excuses: They ban aid organizations they don't like (quasi-terrorist organizations like Save the Children), then forbid any other aid org to take over their cargo. [4]
The videos are current, and there are hundreds more like them. Sorry to burst your bubble!
The ingredients (chocolate, vegetables, fresh meat) are let in by Israel, which has let in 1.8 million metric tons of aid during the war, more than any belligerent in history. Educate yourself.
And now we're onto gish galloping - word of advice that this tactic works best while speaking; when typing, lobbying a multitude of bullshit claims at a rapid pace doesn't have quite the same effect.
>Obesity is common in gaza
This maybe works as a claim if humans exist in non-linear time where 2020 and 2025 are perceived simultaneously. In fact, though, it's not a claim that any current data evinces.
>there are restaurants everywhere
And as we all know, a restaurant under rubble without sufficient access to ingredients or consistent utility supply is still operating at full capacity and its patrons don't need to have funds, able bodies, or the absence of the threat of random artillery strikes to avail themselves to their services.
>there aren't any pictures of starving families; all the pictures of starving kids have turned out to be of kids with serious pre-existing conditions
Adults have more developed organs and digestive systems than children and those pre-existing conditions are ones that would either have been managed with sufficient access to food or had resulted from prenatal nutritional deficiencies caused by insufficient access to food. Your previous point was solipsistic, this kind of immaterial distinction, though, is just cynical.
>there have been only about 200 malnutrition related deaths in two years of war in gaza
Outside of a comment on Threads, I can't find any source for this. I wonder how many qualifiers you'll add to the ynetnews editorial you'll quote in support of this one.
>no belligerent in the history of war has ever allowed in more aid to the opposing side than Israel.
Per Israel and its material partners, yeah. Not so much per every internationally recognized human rights watchdog, aid organizations that aren't staffed by mercenaries and funded by the IDF and the US, or genocide scholars and other academics in related fields. It's unclear whether simple credulity or ideological priors are at play in accepting such a premise.
> Obesity is common
There are countless videos of obese people in Gaza today.
> Restaurats everywhere.
Google it! Not restaurants under rubble, but restaurants serving faties today. Here's a short list of open restaurants:
- Manaqish restaurant
- Ghazetna restaurant
- Hotdog restaurant
- Zaitouna cam restaurant
- Chef Hamada
- O2 restaurant
> No pictures of starving families.
Yes, of course adult bodies are more resilient, but in real famines (unlike the one in Gaza) adults die too. And the kids that look starving had preexisting conditions.
>there have been only about 200 malnutrition related deaths in two years of war in gaza
A googleable claim.
>no belligerent in the history of war has ever allowed in more aid to the opposing side than Israel.
It's a factual matter, nobody debates it. You can't find a country that sent more aid to a belligerent on a per capita basis.
You should credit Mr. Fuld, plagiarizing hasbara seems a bit gauche.
>And the kids that look starving had preexisting conditions.
Caused by prenatal nutritional deficiencies that wouldn't have occurred if they weren't born under siege. It's pretty wild that Zionists are still engaging in this transparently cynical fuff.
>A googleable claim.
Yeah, this time it comes from an unsourced post on Threads. Not that it would matter, much like the charge of genocide, ICL doesn't require a particular threshold of deaths.
>real famines
I'll defer to the FAO, WFP, Oxfam, EU JRC and any number of actual authorities on what constitutes one of those.
> It's a factual matter, nobody debates it.
Nobody with a material interest in supporting Israeli expansionism, yeah.
Earlier cholantesh failed to accept the bedrocks of western jurisprudence. I would be happy to debate cholantesh if he first accepts:
(1) the western concept of presumed innocence;
(2) that while the video from Sde Teiman does show suspicious circumstances, the allegations must be tested in court;
(3) the accused are innocent until proven guilty;
(4) there is also certain potentially exculpatory evidence undermining the accusations (a hospital report that doesn't show rape; a grainy and edited video, where the alleged sex act cannot clearly be seen, among other things)
In the meantime, what I will say for other readers is that just as cholantesh ignores the foundations of western jurisprudence, cholantesh also ignores one of the foundational principles of the enlightenment, and the motto of the royal society: nullius in verba - take nobody's word for it. One doesn't make a case by appealing to authorities like the Church of England or agencies with three-letter acronyms, but thinks from first principles to generate good explanations. Various evidence-free circular theories, like "kids look starving due to prenatal nutritional deficiencies" sound incredibly stupid (really, 10 year olds? kids with cerebral palsy?), and classifying arguments as belonging to forbidden categories ("hasbara talking points") is a dollar store technique for throwing reason out the window.
That's the Supreme Court defending the starvation policy in Gaza. That exact court that liberal, progressive Israelis were fighting tooth and nail for during the last years, as the last bastion of democracy.