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>Sudan, South Sudan, Myanmar, DRC are all in civil war. In Haiti there is anarchy. All of these situations might be reasonably described either as zones of zones of polycrisis, or as regions of chronic poverty (Northern Nigeria, for instance) - which itself demands a deeper explanation.
>By contrast, “the protracted and large-scale military operations” in Gaza that are responsible for the famine there, are not manifestations of a crisis. They are being conducted with full deliberation by Israel, a rich and fully sovereign state. Food supplies to Gaza, which are fully within Israel’s grip, are being deliberately “regulated” to a totally inadequate level. Meanwhile, water desalination facilities have been targeted by smart bombs. There is no fuel for cooking. In waging its campaign in Gaza, Israel has had the unstinting and highly public support of the mainstream of US politics and that of many countries in Europe. These are not deniable operations, as for instance the UAE’s engagement in Sudan, but publicly celebrated multi-billion dollar “aid packages”.
>In recent months, the political establishment in both Europe and the US has become “troubled” by images of Palestinian children dying of hunger. In reaction, they resort to grotesque euphemism to avoid the obvious fact that what is happening in Gaza is the result not of “crisis” but of deliberate Israeli policy.
>Politicians in the USA and in Europe dare not say out loud what the Israeli newspaper Haaretz says every day in its headlines.
>Sudan, South Sudan, Myanmar, DRC are all in civil war. In Haiti there is anarchy. All of these situations might be reasonably described either as zones of zones of polycrisis, or as regions of chronic poverty (Northern Nigeria, for instance) - which itself demands a deeper explanation.
>By contrast, “the protracted and large-scale military operations” in Gaza that are responsible for the famine there, are not manifestations of a crisis. They are being conducted with full deliberation by Israel, a rich and fully sovereign state. Food supplies to Gaza, which are fully within Israel’s grip, are being deliberately “regulated” to a totally inadequate level. Meanwhile, water desalination facilities have been targeted by smart bombs. There is no fuel for cooking. In waging its campaign in Gaza, Israel has had the unstinting and highly public support of the mainstream of US politics and that of many countries in Europe. These are not deniable operations, as for instance the UAE’s engagement in Sudan, but publicly celebrated multi-billion dollar “aid packages”.
>In recent months, the political establishment in both Europe and the US has become “troubled” by images of Palestinian children dying of hunger. In reaction, they resort to grotesque euphemism to avoid the obvious fact that what is happening in Gaza is the result not of “crisis” but of deliberate Israeli policy.
>Politicians in the USA and in Europe dare not say out loud what the Israeli newspaper Haaretz says every day in its headlines.
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