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Tuesday, November 5, 2024

Genocide by starvation?

Having just heard that Netanyahu has just outlawed UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency) the very last viable organization able to supply food the the thousands of displaced Palestinians already starving from the severe restrictions imposed by Israeli troops by destroying their homes and then blocking the daily convoys of trucks bringing food across the border.

I find it hard to believe that the Israeli citizens or indeed anyone world wide can support this genocide by starvation on top of the slaughter of thousands of innocent Gazan's, many of them women and children. There is little doubt that more than 70 years ago those of the Jewish faith were the subject of a far worse ethnic slaughter which makes it even more appalling that they should inflict an increasingly similar situation on others.

I despair for the peoples on both side of this conflict and indeed for the entire world as I watch the few in power in various nations across the world lead the rest of us into what could easily be the final conflict.


Born at the end of the last world war I am so glad that I near my final years and may not be around for the highly probable upcoming world wide conflict but fear for my children and indeed the future of all peoples of all ages and nations.

 

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