There’s a macabre irony playing out today at steel city house. This morning I posted on how profit driven consumerism sees the junk food industries using every trick in the book to do as their tobacco counterparts did, and engineer cravings for their products.
This afternoon I read a Defend Democracy Now piece on Israel’s starving of Gaza. Since those who rule the West actively aid Zionist genocide for reasons ultimately profit-driven – see here and here for the how of that – my offerings today pin both that West’s obesity epidemic, and the greatest crime by a massive margin of our century, to the same root cause.
Feed Gaza, Just Feed Gaza
Paul Larudee 1 – April 30, 2025
Today the World Food Program, the biggest supplier of food to Gaza, ran out of food. Its supplies inside Gaza are gone, and Israel is allowing no food, no water, no medical supplies or anything else to get in. The WFP distributed the last of its food, mainly to kitchens that feed as many hungry as they can, perhaps enough for a few days more. Send as much money as you like to relief agencies and to persons in Gaza. Few will find anything to buy.
After that, there are the hoarders and smugglers, both Israeli and Palestinian, who will make money, while reserving enough for themselves. They will hide in their closets to eat, and will have to find ways to protect themselves from the starving skeletons that will try to feed themselves by any means possible.
Adults in good health can survive without food for 2-3 months. But how many in Gaza are adults, and how many in good health? And if they don’t have enough clean drinking water, they might last much shorter in their weakened state. That describes the rule, rather than the exception.
That’s Israel’s plan. It has destroyed everything that sustains life: the pitiful attempts at agriculture, the bakeries, the animals, the food storage centers, the water treatment facilities, the sanitary and hygiene infrastructure, the hospitals, the shelters, everything. If they can manage this for 90 days, there will be only two million skeletons and lots of rubble to bulldoze. Not even insects or vermin, which will have long since been consumed by the skeletons. Perhaps even the skeletons will have been consumed by skeletons. The most vulnerable will die in the first month, but the pace will accelerate in the second, and then taper off to nothing by the end of the third.
That’s Israel’s plan. They don’t mind if the population flees Gaza or is carted away by some other country. But it seems unlikely. Gaza’s only borders are with Israel, Egypt and the sea. Egypt will not take them. Israel will not take them. Only the sea will take them, with the same but quicker results as remaining in Gaza.
What will the world do? We know what the US will do. It will supply the weapons and economic support to enable Israel to fulfill its plan. Some of the European nations and their allies will do the same. Most of the rest will sit on their hands while simultaneously wringing them, which is not as difficult as it sounds. Much of the world will follow suit, to the refrain of “What can we do?” Yemen is the only country, along with some non-state actors in the Axis of Resistance, that will do its part to destroy the perpetrator of the greatest crime of our century as it happens before our eyes.
And what will we do? Write letter and articles like this one? Demonstrate? Call corrupt and criminal elected representatives? Obtain legal judgments against Israel and its leadership in court? Resolutions at the UN? Will we destroy the interests and the representatives of the criminal enterprise in our own countries and communities? Will we assure that everything Israeli will be subjected to expurgation from our societies until Israel ceases and desists from committing the unspeakable?
Will we? I’ll check back with you in 90 days.
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Here is what that looks like and means right now:
https://skwawkbox.org/2025/05/01/gazas-children-are-being-starved-by-israels-illegal-blockade/
Larudee is unfortunately accurate in his assessment. On the basis of the available evidence, writing letters, demonstrating and attempting to pass judgments in courts with no teeth and no clout is not going to stop this ongoing crime and save what is left of an entire people who are considered surplus to requirements and therefore disposable.
And once that precedent has been set of destroying – i.e. wiping out – an entire people because of who and what they are, the question arises as to who is next to be considered surplus to requirements and chosen to receive the same effective extermination treatment by whatever means is deemed contextually appropriate by the psychopaths running the Collective West and their proxies?
Because one day it might be much nearer to home and not in some faraway place?
The root of this can be found in the superiority complex attitude conveyed as much by this century’s Garden/Jungle statement of Josep Borrell as that conveyed by former UK Prime Minister Churchill last century:
“I do not apologize for the takeover of the region by the Jews from the Palestinians in the same way I don’t apologize for the takeover of America by the whites from the Red Indians or the takeover of Australia from the blacks. It is natural for a superior race to dominate an inferior one.”
– Winston Churchill
Or from the horse’s mouth, so to speak, itself. Cue former US Senator and Chair of the Republican Jewish Coalition, Norm Coleman – who, if it was anyone else uttering the words he utters in this video clip would be cancelled with extreme prejudice for pushing an anti-Semitic conspiracy worse than the scurrilous Protocols of the Elders of Zion propaganda forgery against the Jewish people:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4NeKU-Re84&ab_channel=MiddleEastEye
If this had been taking place forty years ago, Parliaments around the West would have been under permanent siege and occupation with politicians aiding and abetting it in fear of their lives.