Israel has deliberately starved the people of Gaza

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Israel has deliberately starved the people of Gaza

Mar 13, 2024

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This will stop when the United States stops providing the munitions to Israel. It will not stop by any self-control in Israel. There is none in this government.

Republished from Middle East Eye, March 11, 2024

Transcript:

Israel has deliberately starved the people of Gaza. Starved.

I’m not using an exaggeration, I’m talking literally starving a population. Israel is a criminal and is in nonstop war crime status now. I believe in genocidal status, and it is without shame, without remorse, without truth, without insight into what it’s doing.

But what it is doing is endangering Israel’s fundamental security because it is driving the world to believe that the Israeli state is not legitimate. This will stop when the United States stops providing the munitions to Israel. It will not stop by any self-control in Israel – there is none in this government.

This is a murderous gang in government right now. These are zealots. They have some Messianic vision of controlling all of today’s Palestinian lands.

They’re not going to stop. They believe in ethnic cleansing, or worse depending on whatever is needed, and it is again the United States which is the sole support.

It’s our mumbling bumbling president and the others that are not stopping this slaughter.

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Jeffrey D. Sachs

Jeffrey D. Sachs, Professor of Sustainable Development and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University, is Director of Columbia’s Center for Sustainable Development and the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. He has served as Special Adviser to three UN Secretaries-General. His books include The End of Poverty, Common Wealth, The Age of Sustainable Development, Building the New American Economy, and most recently, A New Foreign Policy: Beyond American Exceptionalism.

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