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Ryan Grim, a “journalist” for the pro-Hamas propaganda site Drop Site News, claimed on Friday that the Israeli government “planned very specifically to cut off food” to Gaza, “and then when re-opening it, to control it militarily and have 4 aid sites for 2 million people. This was a well thought out plan agreed to at the highest levels.” To that, an X user replied: “lol Ryan is lying to you all. the aid is in Gaza waiting for the UN to pick it up. They wont do it.”
That was indeed the case, as AIPAC noted: “The food, medicine and aid are IN Gaza. The @UN won’t distribute it. Hundreds of truckloads are sitting there. The trucks are loaded. Demand they deliver. Yesterday, Hamas again rejected a U.S.-brokered ceasefire deal that Israel accepted. Where’s your unequivocal condemnation?” Yet once again, as Mark Twain pointed out so long ago, “A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”The claim that Gazans were suffering from mass starvation at the hands of Israel fit the narrative of the leftist political and media elites, which have been avid to portray the Israelis as evil white “settler-colonialists” oppressing the brown Palestinians.
Columnist Hillel Fuld said: “950 truckloads of aid are currently sitting in Gaza, awaiting pickup and distribution by international organizations. Starvation in Gaza, my tuchus! And whatever hunger there is there is on Hamas and the UN that refuses to distribute all this food.” The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies reported Thursday: “The United Nations rejected offers by the U.S.- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) to deliver much-needed humanitarian aid to Gazan civilians that is sitting undelivered inside the Gaza Strip despite the United Nations’ own warnings about widespread hunger. ‘We’ve been sounding the alarm for weeks on the need for more aid in Gaza while we’ve seen aid by the UN and other organizations being piled near the borders but not being delivered,’ GHF Interim Director John Acree said.”
British Colonel Richard Kemp drew back the veil on why the UN would do such a thing: “Of course UN & NGOs reject US-Israel plan to supply humanitarian aid to Gaza with measures to prevent its seizure by Hamas. These entities would rather deny food to civilians than see Hamas deprived of control as well as the funding it extorts from sale of free aid.” This is all about saving Hamas, even if Gazan children have to die unwittingly and unwillingly for the cause.
No such deaths would be necessary; all could be prevented. The Jerusalem Post reported Saturday that “approximately 90 food trucks were unloaded at aid crossings, and over 100 were collected by the UN and international organizations from the Gaza side and distributed in Gaza; however, hundreds of trucks still await pickup, the Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) said on Saturday.”
As all this was happening, the usual divide emerged between the truth and the left’s spin on it. The UN, true to form, took Hamas’ word uncritically as fact: “The UN’s World Food Program claimed that ‘one in three people in the Gaza Strip has gone days without eating’, citing information provided by Hamas-controlled Gaza’s Ministry of Health.” Back in the real world, “the IDF acknowledged on Friday that while there is no starvation in Gaza, food security is at a dangerous, sensitive point and that it is working hard to keep food security balanced.”
The IDF is also trying to persuade the UN to stop its efforts on behalf of Hamas and allow the people of Gaza to be fed: “At this time, the IDF is attempting to persuade the UN and other aid organizations to dispatch approximately 900 aid trucks to distribution points. The military has already approved the aid trucks, and they are waiting on the other side on the Gaza side of the border.”
Meanwhile, there were telling indications that the entire crisis was more propaganda than fact. A photo of an allegedly starving Palestinian child in his mother’s arms was widely distributed.The only problem was that mom was at least fifty pounds overweight; why didn’t she share any of her food with her poor starving son? There were so many such photos that Dr. Eli David spelled out the stark choices they presented: “In all reports about the ‘starvation in Gaza’ they talk about hungry children, but the adults look well-fed or even overweight. There are only two explanations: 1. Adults in Gaza eat all the food and starve their children 2. This starvation story is another Hamas lie.”
The UK’s Daily Express published a lurid cover photo of what was purportedly a starving Gazan child, but many people pointed out that the child was actually suffering from a congenital disease.
As always, however, the facts simply didn’t matter. All that mattered was furthering the leftist narrative, so as to move the world a step closer to accepting Israel’s destruction. That was the real goal behind all the crocodile tears, handwringing and hysteria over a population that was not actually starving.
Isn’t it odd that the MSM and so many independent journalists (who often decry the MSM as untruthful and pushing false narratives) are so aligned on this issue? Muslims all across Europe run around raping, stabbing, driving trucks into crowds, assaulting and bombing but somehow in Gaza they are all totally peaceful victims of Israeli aggression? Israel has certainly dealt harshly with Gaza, but that they have shown more restraint than if the shoe was on the other foot is unquestionable. I have begun to question some sources I previously thought were independent.
Israel’s “restraint” is historically unique. The surrender monkeys of Europe have been shamed by Israel defending itself while they kiss invader butt on purpose to end their nation states.
“The Strange Death of Europe” written by Charles Murray.
Highly recommended, as it’s a fascinating and depressing indictment on leftist policy.
(You sound as if you might have already read it.)
Also, “Son of Hamas,” by Mosab Hassan Yousef, for a unique and terrifying view into that organization.
The Author is Douglas Murray.
Not Charles, I have the book beside me.
Excellent post.
As the depraved fool, Greta Thunberg refused to view 45+ minutes of the shocking evil inflicted on Israelis, it’s a given that if she read your post, she’d either blink dumbly at it, or scream “How dare you!”.
She is a classic bubblehead.
A programmed Marxist.
During WW II it was Tokyo Rose Axis Sally and Lord Haw Haw now we have CNN/NYT’s as well as the rest of the Leftists Propaganda from NBC,ABC and CBS
Ah yes, CNN…the people who told us the US shooter was “possibly white” while showing a picture of him that is 100% NOT white. They are always a “trusted source of news”…trusted to lie and be biased. They know as much about the truth and being unbiased….as Lizzo knows about Weight Watchers.
With the world insisting no ‘non combatant’ be allowed to leave Gaza since the war began, this is a surprise???
And there’s never been a way to force Hamas to unconditionally release all remaining hostages, those murdered and those still clinging to life, surely being starved and deprived of medical care??? Of course not, because that’s the plan: do anything and everything to stop Israel from defeating Hamas. Drag out the war to have more time to stroke and stoke hatred against Israel and Jews everywhere.
Truly evil. No fear of God. It’s a mockery. An obsession. It will fail. All this conceived before 10/7 to follow 10/7. How else can you explain it?
Negotiators have treated Hamas as if it was a country, not terrorists.
Oh wait- it is. Didn’t you know?
Hamas=Gaza (really, there’s a difference?) which apparently is now a protectorate of Qatar……….
99% of the news about Trump is Fake/Leftists Propaganda
Get out of the UN .
Just send Coffee Cup Annan back to where he came from and make him take care of his Own People instead of telling us what do do
The Israeli politicians were morons to surrender Gaza to an enemy that wants them dead. Gaza was a beautiful fertile land under the Israelis. Now its nothing more than a sharia s**t hole.
Everything Islam touches turns to death and destruction.
Proof once again that the UN is a worthless org. Why do we throw taxpayer dollars at it? Let’s get it out of the US. How ‘bout the Congo? Or Haiti? Defund the UN!
Hamas is a wholly owned subsidiary of the UN which has always been overtly hostile to Israel.
The UN Agency, UNWRA , supposedly supplied Aid to GAZA, but UNWRA is corrupt to its core. They all knew HAMAS routinely stole the massive amount of Israeli Aid to GAZA and sold it to anyone who had money. Trump canceled US Taxpayer support of UNWRA for good reason! Throughout all of this Israel gets the blame? I marvel at the continued humanity of ISRAEL in providing both WATER + POWER + FOOD to Gaza , the proof being that the population of Gaza has doubled in size since 2005 after Israel removed 21 of its own settlements for GAZA. Sadly, it is now a slum full of AntiSemites, who danced and celebrated on both 9/11 and Oct 7th while idiotically chanting “Death to Israel” and “Death to America” while the Muslim world laughed and Quatar plays the great Peacemaker….
The Palestinian starvation meme has always been a lie. And the pattern is always the same. Muslims start a fight (Oct 7 for example), get their asses kicked eventually, and then whine about how they are oppressed.
Then the taqqiya freaks always fall for it.
No gazans are actually starving?
How disappointing…
They deserve to starve.
We have the Babylon Bee on our side…
https://babylonbee.com/news/israel-botches-genocide-with-millions-in-food-aid
The “starving Gazans” are the mother of all victimhood for the Democrats and the media to take advantage of. If they cared, they would report truthfully how aid efforts are being stymied by HAMAS.
If it were true that Gazans had gone “days” without food, then of course I would not wish that on anyone. Having said that, 40 day fasts can be undergone by healthy individuals without harm, as long as there is a sufficient fluid intake. So when the media starts saying “weeks” is when I will prick up my ears.
Those Muslim terrorists of Hamas are so such thieves and despicably callus that that steal aid send peaceful people of Gaza and use in an different ways for the murderous jihad against the State of Israel and the Jewish people.
As an Israel government official had explained “They, Hamas, steal the aid, they resell the aid, they use the money to rearm, then they to attack again …. Aid that goes Hamas is not humanitarian ….”it’s “Enabling the enemy to resupply itself so that can regroup and reattack us..” [1]
Just thinking about this the Gazan people wouldn’t really need al that aid if Hamas hadn’t started this war on October 7,th 2023.
[1] The Epoch Times March 19-25, 2025. A10.
Those Muslim terrorists of Hamas are stealing the aid sent to the people of Gaza so that the jihadists of Hamas can put their other resources into the jihad in that vicious Islamic quest the destroy the State of Israel murder all the Jewish people of Israel and also of other nations
Those Hamas jihadists in their theft of that aid sent to the people of Gaza are engaging in the Islamic doctrine of “Muruna” which is the dogma of Islam that teaches committing evil for the greater good is a noble part of the jihad for Islam.
This is, in essence, the same type of “philosophy” that the communists had gone by in the twentieth century. That it’s a “good thing “ to commit many evils to obtain a “worker’s paradise.” Likewise, during World War II even the Nazis had this line of thinking.” To express, as in to illustrate this idea, even more, is by using a twenty-first century movie. Near the end of this movie, just before the final defeat of the super-arch –villain General Zod , that super villain said “No matter how brutal and deadly I was I did it for the greater good.” That is the common mindset of many villains including those of Hamas.
Some very decent but naïve Westerners who don’t understand the despicable loathsome character of the jihadists of Hamas, when those people of the West discover that the terrorists of Hamas are stealing the humanitarian aid sent to the noncombatant civilians of Gaza and using it only for themselves.
Those same Westerners would be shocked and then ask “How can those Muslim terrorist of Hamas being Muslim do such a terrible unconscionable as that, to deprive other Muslim, who are not violent, of the aid they so desperately need ?”
The answer to that question is provided in the Bible, which reveals that there are some men who a very callous cruel and heartless because they have had “their conscience seared with a hot iron.” First Timothy 4:2. [K.J.V.]
For those Muslim terrorists of Hamas that “hot iron” is Islam.
in australia we have a left wing govt. run broadcaster [ the taxpayer funded ABC. ] which every night runs the same lie that the fakestinians are starving , [ as well as the genocide trope ] why israel allows them to continue the lie while in israel is a mystery to me . if israel wants to control the narrative why are they still allowed to be in israel . the ABC have been pro hamas since oct. 7 and still cling to the idea of a 2 state solution and that the fakestinians are down trodden and poor victims . when you vote for a terrorist group you are not a victim , your choices define you . love death ? then that is what you get . dont complain when your prophet tells you what you need and want and what you will get . do stupid games , win stupid prizes .