Since the Hamas attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, I have written about 20 columns critical of Netanyahu and his government for the extreme hatred and almost unbelievable cruelty he and it have exhibited toward the Palestinian people.
As hard as I have tried, though, nothing I could ever write would even come close to the feeling, the emotion expressed by Tom Fletcher, the UN Undersecretary for Humanitarian Affairs, in a recent three-minute speech.
This very moving speech can be seen simply by typing in “Tom Fletcher Famine Speech” on your IPhone or IPad. The one-sided slaughter of Palestinians would stop almost immediately if there was some way to get everyone to watch or listen to it.
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Mr. Fletcher repeated the words “It is a famine” before each of these clauses: “…that hits the most vulnerable first, each with a name, each with a story….that forces a parent to choose which child to feed….that forces people to risk their lives to seek food….that strips people of dignity before it strips them of life….that is openly promoted by some Israeli leaders as a weapon of war.”
Mr. Fletcher added that it “ is a famine caused by cruelty, justified by revenge, enabled by indifference, and supported by complicity.” It is the “world’s famine, a famine that will and must haunt us all” and, worst of all, a famine that is occurring while stacks and stacks of food sit just a few meters away, prevented by Israel from being brought in.
I know that almost every member of Congress-many of them friends of mine-have been bought and paid for by the Israel Lobby. They are intimidated by money the Lobby can get from all over the Country to be used either for or against them.
They will not watch the Fletcher speech because they are good and kind people who cannot bear to see the gruesome photos or read or hear about the killing, starvation or horrors that are part of the daily life in Gaza. In this purposeful ignoring of the Gazan horrors, they are like the Japanese tale of the three wise monkeys: see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.
It has sickened me to see photos of starving children, to read stories of little children having legs or arms amputated without anesthesia and medicine to help wounds heal, and watching news reports showing dead children in their father’s arms while their mothers wail agonized tears.
It horrified me to read an August 16 story in the Drudge Report that said our own State Department announced “it would stop issuing visas to children from Gaza in desperate need of medical care after an online pressure campaign by Laura Loomer,” a Jewish woman who claims to be close to President Trump.
And it disgusted me to read a report from the medical charity Doctors Without Borders which said “Israeli forces and American private contractors have engaged in targeted and indiscriminate violence against starved Palestinians at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation distribution sites.” AI reported that at least 1,373 Palestinians had been killed by Sept 1 trying to get to the food at these sites.
Unfortunately, our government in cooperation with the Israeli government, with US taxpayer millions, has setup this fake “humanitarian” foundation that has furthered the starvation and killing of Palestinians. I challenge anyone who doubts this to listen to Tucker Carlson’s interview with former Green Beret Lt. Col. Anthony Aguilar.
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Col. Aguilar was hired by this fraudulent Gaza Humanitarian Foundation at $1,381 a day but resigned in protest after he saw what was really going on. He said the UN had 400 food sites until it was kicked out when the total Israeli siege began at the end of March. Then when Israel finally let in a totally inadequate amount of food at the end of May, it limited distribution to four sites.
People had to walk miles and dodge Israeli bullets to get pitiful bits of food, if any. My dog is fed much better every day. Doctors Without Borders said the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation “is a scheme (that) is degrading Palestinians by slaughter masquerading as humanitarian” and that it “must be immediately dismantled.”
A neurosurgeon from Houston who was a volunteer in Gaza said the situation “is the worst thing I have ever seen in my life by far.” He told of two seven-year-old boys shot by Israeli soldiers, one dead on arrival and one horribly wounded in the scrotum, a 25-year-old shot in the spine with arms and legs paralyzed,and how doctors had to use and reuse surgical items that should have been thrown away after one use. He said even the doctors were starving.
Evangelical Christians who still support the slaughter in Gaza need to explain how it is Christian to starve little children and murder many thousands of innocent, unarmed women, children, and old men.
