Our Wednesday News Analysis | How to stop Israel from starving Gaza

A person holds a pot on their head as Palestinians wait to receive food from a charity kitchen after the global hunger monitor, Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), said Gaza City and surrounding areas are officially suffering from famine that will likely spread, in Gaza City, August 28, 2025 [Mahmoud Issa/Reuters]

Israel, with the complicity of the United States, is committing genocide in Gaza through the mass starvation of the population, as well as direct mass murders and the physical destruction of Gaza’s infrastructure. Israel does the dirty work. The US government funds it and provides diplomatic cover through its veto power at the United Nations. Palantir, through Lavender, provides the artificial intelligence for efficient mass murder. Microsoft, through Azure cloud services, and Google and Amazon, through the Nimbus initiative, supply core tech infrastructure for the Israeli army.

This marks 21st-century war crimes as an Israel-US public-private partnership. Israel’s mass starvation of the people of Gaza has been confirmed by the UN, Amnesty International, Red Cross, Save the Children, and many others. The Norwegian Refugee Council, along with 100 organisations, has been calling for an end to Israel’s weaponisation of food relief. This is the first time that mass starvation has been officially confirmed in the Middle East.

The scale of the starvation is staggering. Israel is systematically depriving more than two million people of food. More than half a million Palestinians face catastrophic hunger, and at least 132,000 children aged below five years are at risk of death from acute malnutrition. The scale of the horror is thoroughly documented by Haaretz in a recent article entitled “Starvation is Everywhere”. Those who are able to somehow access food distribution sites are routinely fired upon by the Israeli army.

As a former US ambassador to Israel recently explained, the intention to starve the population has been present from the start. Israel’s Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu recently declared, “There is no nation that feeds its enemies.” Minister Bezalel Smotrich also recently said, “Whoever doesn’t evacuate, don’t let them. No water, no electricity; they can die of hunger or surrender. This is what we want.”

Yet, despite these glaring declarations of genocide, US representatives at the UN repeatedly deny the facts and cover for Israel’s war crimes. The US alone vetoed Palestine’s admission to the UN in 2024. It now denies visas to Palestinian leaders to visit the UN in September, yet another violation of international law.

The US has used its power, especially its veto in the UN Security Council (UNSC), to abet Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians and to block even the most basic humanitarian responses. The world is aghast but seems paralysed before the Israel-US murder machine. Yet the world can act, even in the face of US intransigence. The US will stand naked and alone in its criminal complicity with Israel...

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THE WEST’S RECKONING: IS THE TIDE FINALLY TURNING AGAINST ISRAEL?

Source: Palestine Chronicle
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/the-wests-reckoningis-the-tide-finally-turning-against-israel/

By Ramzy Baroud
Published September 3, 2025

The precious blood of hundreds of thousands of innocent Palestinians in Gaza deserves for history to be finally altered.

Is the West finally turning against Israel? (Design: Palestine Chronicle)

Is it finally happening? Is the West turning against Israel? Or are we, whether motivated by hope or driven by despair, simply engaging in wishful thinking? The matter is not so simple.

Last July, a significant number of countries and organizations signed the ‘New York Declaration,’ a strong statement that followed a high-level meeting titled “Conference on the Peaceful Settlement of the Question of Palestine.”

The conference itself and its bold conclusion warrant a deeper conversation. What matters for now, however, is the identity of the countries involved. Aside from states that have traditionally advocated for international justice and law in Palestine, many of the signatories were countries that had previously supported Israel regardless of context or circumstance.

These mostly Western countries included Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom, among others. Some of these nations are also expected to formally recognize the state of Palestine in September.

Of course, one has no illusions about the hypocrisy of supporting peace in Palestine while still arming the Israeli war machine that is carrying out a genocide in Gaza. That notwithstanding, the political change is too significant to ignore.

In the case of Ireland, Norway, Spain, Luxembourg, Malta, and Portugal, among others, one can explain the growing rift with Israel and the championing of Palestinian rights based on historical evidence. Indeed, most of these countries have historically teetered on the edge between the Western common denominator and a more humanistic approach to the Palestinian struggle. This shift had already begun years prior to the ongoing Israeli genocide.

But what is one to make of the positions of Australia and the Netherlands, two of the most adamantly pro-Israel governments anywhere?...

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HAARETZ EDITORIAL | THE WORLD IS SETTING A PRICE FOR ISRAEL'S WAR IN GAZA

Source: Haaretz
https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/editorial/2025-09-11/ty-article-opinion/the-world-is-setting-a-price-for-israels-war-in-gaza/00000199-3a51-d3db-a999-bb7122bc0000

By Haaretz Editorial
Published September 11, 2025

Lone anti-government protester in Tel Aviv in June.Credit: Tomer Appelbaum

What do a physicians' conference in Portugal, a music festival, an arms fair, Norway's sovereign wealth fund, a Dutch university, research foundations, and a few sports federations have in common? In the past few months, all of them have ostracized Israel or Israelis: Your invitation or participation has been revoked, we don't want you.

On Wednesday, there was a significant escalation, signaling to Israel what awaits it if it continues down the path that Benjamin Netanyahu's government is leading it on. The European Union, led by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, announced plans to seek a partial suspension of trade with Israel and sanctions against "extremist Israeli ministers."

The proposals include a "partial suspension" of an Association Agreement that underpins relations between the EU and Israel, targeting "trade-related matters." In 2024, Israel's exports to the EU totaled $16.9 billion, and imports totaled $24.8 billion.

The European Union buys almost one-third of Israel's total exports. The road to the implementation of this decision is a long one, and it's not clear whether von der Leyen really wishes to go down it. But this declaration of intent is a diplomatic, political, and economic earthquake.

Israel is gradually losing legitimacy around the world, being placed in a group that includes other reviled pariah states. Even its oldest, most loyal friends are finding it increasingly uncomfortable to be associated with it.

The boycott has many faces. It includes sanctions on settlers, entry bans on senior government ministers, protests at sporting events and the indirect removal of participants from such events; an arms embargo and protests by longshoremen who refuse to load Israeli vessels; supermarket chains refusing to buy agricultural produce from Israel; investment funds, not just in Norway, divesting from Israeli companies and even from American firms that assist Israel in its actions in Gaza.

The boycott initially targeted the cultural world, primarily affecting performing artists. But from there it moved on: Collaborations, funding and even participation in conferences are starting to disappear, given the increasing global pressure. Even a field that was the envy of the entire world – tech startups – has begun to feel pressure in recent months. Many companies are beginning to consider or to carry out reincorporation in a different country, and/or removing or at least not highlighting Israeli symbols...

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