(With all due citation to my cousin, Peter Fox. The better analyst.)
1. The food trucks are right outside Gaza. Probably 950 of them. Just sitting there as a convoy, taunting everybody, especially the Gazans who are starving right now every bit as much as international media says they are. Any Jew who denies it is complicit in war crimes, potentially in ethnic cleansing. They are not, however, complicit in genocide. And god damn you all who use that term. It is an incitement to hatred. I've read a few people backtrack, saying using 'genocide' is not quite as serious a term as it seems because it doesn't refer to the number of lives lost. OF COURSE it refers to the number of lives lost, that's why we coined the motherf-cking term! Millions of antisemites are dining out on this linguistic ambiguity, and hope that a critical mass of the world will see Jews as no different from Nazis.
2. There used to be 400 aid distribution sites. There are now 4 mega-sites, which Israel has put in militarized zones, perhaps deliberately. In order to get aid, Palestinians have to cross militarized zones where they get fired on. Nobody should know for sure if the 1000 dead total is correct, but whatever it is, the death toll is unquestionably outrageous and the distribution method is unquestionably a war crime. There is no question that it looks extremely fishy.
3. But the reason the aid convoys are outside Gaza is not that Israel is preventing aid, the reason is that the convoys might get shot, held up, blown up, or looted, and it's much easier to patrol 4 aid sites than 400. So the convoys would have to drive through militarized zones. Netanyahu, pustule that he is, still thinks he can smoke Hamas out, and that any concession on territory is a concession to Hamas that lets them live longer.
4. Is there intention to starve the Gazan population? Only in the sense that the intention might be to starve Hamas in particular. Netanyahu's strategy all along has clearly been that he has to make life for Gaza generally hell to make life hell for Hamas, on the thought that once you get rid of Hamas, life for Gazans will improve. Now, let's state the obvious, Bibi doesn't give a shit about Gazans, but believe it or not, he does care about public opinion, and thinks that with enough victories, Israel can take a place as a respected member of the international community. Why does he think that? Because he's a delusional narcissist, which is a necessary state to thinking Israel can still have a total victory. The only way it would happen is to overthrow democracy in every major world power for a right-wing tyrant, and even if that happened, dictators are the world's least reliable allies.
5. Hamas wants to distribute it, Israel wants to distribute it. But neither wants the other, and neither will let the other distribute it. The UN, rightly, doesn't want to distribute it, because that will make them responsible, and if either side charges they're misusing it, the UN could end up on the other side of a battle from either the IDF or Hamas. Nevertheless, the UN is the best option for reasons so obvious that I don't need to elaborate.
6. Netanyahu doesn't want the UN to distribute either, because Netanyahu views them as complicit with Hamas. Why? Because to Netanyahu's paranoia, even one or two collaborators in the UN ranks is tantamount to the whole organization. Even one or two thieveries from smaller orgs is tantamount to collaboration. At one point Israel alleged that something like 250 UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Gaza) workers were Hamas collaborators. I forget the exact number but that's absolutely insane. God knows how they came up with that number but that's at least as un-trustworthy as the Gaza Health Ministry's casualty total.
7. At the same time that Netanyahu says that the UN and Hamas are collaborating, the Netanyahu administration alleges that Hamas steals the aid. Now, that's the most believable thing in the world, so you'll have to forgive Israelis and Jews around the world for believing him. But as happened so many times in this conflict, the Israeli military is contradicting Netanyahu. It's important to remember, an enormous part of the Israeli military has long since not wanted this conflict: maybe even the majority! But what can they do? Chain of command is chain of command. This is how democracies break down into authoritarianism. At any point, the choices are authoritarian order or potential civil war. You can't blame each individual for not being willing to bite a bullet that may end up killing more people than they'd save.
8. The reason Netanyahu alleges this is that Hamas stole from smaller organizations than the UN. Who gives a shit? Get the f8cking aid to the Gazans.
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So, even more than genocide, the ultimate question is: is it deliberate starvation? I don't think it is. I think Netanyahu would love to starve Hamas out, but he would like nothing more than to get the bad publicity off his back and the quickest way is let the Gazans eat. If famine were the intention, Netanyahu's policy would be unyielding, but there is every sense that Netanyahu is already backtracking. He's already changed his policy on ramping up aid. He put it to a cabinet vote on Shabbat so that the most extreme members of his cabinet couldn't vote on it, and it passed. Netanyahu doesn't want genocide, he wants victory. You can't defeat dead people.
But that's the thing. Right now, Bibi's probable successor is B'Tzalel Smotrich of the Religious Zionism party. The nightmare that provokes is obvious, but even if there are Religious Zionists of principle who would never kill, Smotrich frankly makes Bibi look like Desmond Tutu. In the 90s during the Peace Process Smotrich was pulled over by the police and caught with 700 gallons of kerosene in his trunk. This is a man capable of genocide on the deepest, most foul level. Genocide is still a slur in 2025, it may not be in less ten years.
There is not a single goy in the world I don't have a few harsh feelings toward right now. I feel like I'm watching the social media equivalent of a Nuremberg rally. But that does not change that we in the Jewish world have a reckoning coming. We have not perpetrated the most foul crime on earth yet, but we're coming to the precipice of it. Aside from a crime against humanity and God, it is a crime against the Jewish future that will damn us to two-thousand more years of spilled blood.
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