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Israel has not allowed any food into Gaza for two months. If this continues for much longer, the obvious comparison is to the siege of Leningrad, when the Germans and their Finnish collaborators deliberately starved people to death.
One difference, however, is that it was possible to get at least some food in to Leningrad, because the Soviets managed to keep a route open over Lake Ladoga, using boats in the summer and driving supply trucks over the ice in winter. Israel, by contrast, has managed to cut off any respite to its victims. They snipe at Palestinian fishing boats, and a few days ago, they used drones to attack a humanitarian aid ship in international waters off the coast of Malta, midway through the Mediterranean, over 1,000 nautical miles away. European governments are doing nothing about this barbarism, and of course the United States enthusiastically supports the atrocities.
Even pointing out these facts will inevitably draw the usual dishonest whining from Israel's apologists. People who engage in this kind of sophistry are not worth taking seriously, though you might be tempted to simply give them a good slap. If you don't want your actions to be likened to some of the worst episodes in human history, you can simply stop doing them.
The people with command responsibility for this, and the people who supply them, all deserve to dangle from the end of a rope.
This is called the "Ends Justifying The Means"
One difference, however, is that it was possible to get at least some food in to Leningrad, because the Soviets managed to keep a route open over Lake Ladoga, using boats in the summer and driving supply trucks over the ice in winter. Israel, by contrast, has managed to cut off any respite to its victims. They snipe at Palestinian fishing boats, and a few days ago, they used drones to attack a humanitarian aid ship in international waters off the coast of Malta, midway through the Mediterranean, over 1,000 nautical miles away. European governments are doing nothing about this barbarism, and of course the United States enthusiastically supports the atrocities.
Even pointing out these facts will inevitably draw the usual dishonest whining from Israel's apologists. People who engage in this kind of sophistry are not worth taking seriously, though you might be tempted to simply give them a good slap. If you don't want your actions to be likened to some of the worst episodes in human history, you can simply stop doing them.
The people with command responsibility for this, and the people who supply them, all deserve to dangle from the end of a rope.
This is called the "Ends Justifying The Means"