A healthy person can survive forty to sixty days without food, depending on how fat they were to begin with. Women last longer than men (women are better at all extreme endurance feats I am aware of.)
It’s been about two months since Israel cut off all food and water to Gaza. There were storehouses and some food, and it took about 30-40 days to exhaust the stores, but even before that there wasn’t enough.
And even before this cut-off there wasn’t enough. There was a brief period after Trump took power with supplies moving in in large amounts, but since the start of the crisis, Israel has been choking off food, medicine and everything else, and Israeli citizens have stopped and hijacked aid trucks.
So there aren’t any fat people in Gaza, except for some Zionist genociders who cosplay as soldiers. And most people in Gaza haven’t had enough food for well over a year.
Palestinians are going to start dying in massive numbers right about now, and the deaths will accelerate.
This is the first live-streamed genocide. Everyone knows its happening, and no one except the Ansar-Allah is doing shit, though credit to Hezbollah for trying until Mossad ripped them apart. (I do maintain Hezbollah’s strategy was awful, but that’s water under the bridge. They at least tried.)
I include Iran in this general indictment. It has enough missiles to really hurt Israel and proved that it could get thru the “Iron” Dome.
But, again, they’ve done more than pretty much every other country in the world.
I will note, for the record, though that it’s unlikely to matter much, that for the rest of my life I will judge people based on whether they were against the Palestinian genocide at the time. In a few years almost everyone will pretend they were against it, but we have receipts. And even if you are good to puppies and children, give lots of money to charities and are perfectly aligned with my politics on everything else, I will regard you as evil and a piece of human garbage, who could only improve the world by committing suicide, if you were OK with this.
This genocide could be stopped tomorrow by the US simply halting all shipments and aid to Israel. Even Europe, were it to act similarly, might be able to stop it.
But no one with the power to do anything decisive, is. Which means they’re all monsters.
And if you are depraved enough to think “who cares, it doesn’t affect me?”, let me assure you that on top of being human filth, you are also stupid and a fool. If they’ll do it to Palestinians, they’d do it to you and yours if they thought it was in their interest and they could get away with it.
Which, so far, they have every reason to believe they could.
Certain actions, like genocide, rape, torture and deliberate child murder have to be off the table entirely for the protection of everyone. You never want to normalize them, even if you are an evil piece of shit, because once something becomes routine, who knows who is next on the table?
Welcome to Hell.
Ventzu
“ I will note, for the record, though that it’s unlikely to matter much, that for the rest of my life I will judge people based on whether they were against the Palestinian genocide at the time. In a few years almost everyone will pretend they were against it, but we have receipts. And even if you are good to puppies and children, give lots of money to charities and are perfectly aligned with my politics on everything else, I will regard you as evil and a piece of human garbage, who could only improve the world by committing suicide, if you were OK with this.”
Yup.
jrs
Meanwhile they say the gutting of USAID (no it wasn’t just doing good, it was diplomacy, but it did help people) will kill even more than the genocide in Gaza.
someofparts
In my personal circle of people, I’m seeing a correlation between how devoted a person is/is not to a political party and their position on the genocide. No surprise I guess that ardent supporters of either party accept war crimes.
ventzu
I saw a comment on Twitter, that the release of the last US / Israeli soldier by Hamas, was negotiated by Witkoff, who committed to lift the blockade and allow humanitarian aid in.
This is the full article
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/witkoff-hamas-trump-deal-edan-alexander-lift-blockade-israel
Level of duplicity and evil is just beyond words. No point in negotiating with the US on anything then.
cc
Our Western media feed us “bread & circuses” (ex. the Stanley Cup play-off hockey games in our modern-day coliseums) to keep the masses entertained, divided, distracted, and uncaring, while our Anglo Empire slaughters and starves yet more indigenous peoples in order to acquire their lands.
(I am surprised that the indigenous people in Canada, the US, Australia, NZ have not strongly condemned this ongoing genocide that essentially repeats what happened to them. The Palestinian towns and enclaves being increasingly divided and isolated are just like what happened via “Indian reservations” here in North America, where slaughter and starvation were also part of the process. Or were there perhaps some feeble isolated statements but our Western/Anglo media never reported on them?
If the indigenous people of Canada, the US, Australia, NZ were to join forces and coordinate, they might have a more powerful voice to call out and condemn what the Anglo-American Empire is doing in its latest colonial project in Palestine. If they draw the parallels to what was done to them, it could make it harder for the controlled Western/Anglo media to ignore.)
mago
The opinion shapers, more commonly known as the media are equally complicit in this savagery, if not more so than governments, states and institutions.
From the beginning they’ve lied, obfuscated and provided cover. (Hareetz provides more honest reportage than their western counterparts.)
Now there are a few cracks here and there because the Zionists are so bold and blatant in word and actions that it’s becoming almost impossible to talk about Hamas or hostages with a serious demeanor.
Despite the deliberate cover up, anyone with even a vestigial knowledge of history knows the Zionist project was evil top to bottom from the get go, and that includes Balfour and the Brits. Churchill, too. Stalin, monster that he was had nothing on that bunch.
So here we are. Starvation death and destruction with more promised and some even rubbing their palms in anticipation while others look away, asking what’s for dinner?
Sure, down the line it’s going to be, hey man, don’t blame me, wasn’t my fault it happened. Besides, that’s history now.
What’s for dinner?