nside Israel's Disturbing Denial of Starvation in Gaza
Israeli authorities and pro-Israel keyboard warriors, who systematically deny the evidence of expert research, aid agencies and Gazans themselves about catastrophic hunger in Gaza, have a clear, shameless motivation
Among the ugliest spectacles of the ugliest phase of Israeli and Palestinian history is the attempt to deny the horrors committed by "our" side. Israeli authorities and pro-Israel keyboard warriors are cultivating denialism daily, and shamelessly.
In addition to waging a war of shocking brutality against civilians, the narrative-makers are busy doing the unthinkable: denying hunger in Gaza. Caveat: the word for "hunger" and "famine" are identical in Hebrew, but it's splitting hairs to argue that they deny famine, not hunger. The aim is to absolve Israel.
...
What do these denialists want? The aims range from insisting on Israeli moral superiority to fending off a genocide verdict at the International Court of Justice. Or maybe, as Hary believes, "The idea that Israel's not responsible is at the heart of everything – all roads lead back to that. It's a vacuum of responsibility." But most of all, they want you to ignore the evidence, ignore firsthand knowledge, ignore actual experts in the field with transparent data and methodology, but listen to the crackpots. Then a government that uses these tactics can say – and do – anything.
archive.ph |
