by Eric Zuesse*
Nov 12, 2024
The United States supplies virtually all of the weapons and ammunition as well as satellite intelligence to guide the bombers and the gunmen, and Israel supplies the troops. The killing is being carried out not only by bombs and guns etc., but by Israel’s blocking food, medicine, and other lifesaving supplies into Gaza, in order to starve the 2.3 million people there to death.
On 12 November 2024, the U.S. news-medium (or propaganda-agency) called Associated Press, headlined as euphemistically as possible for their article about what is obviously a genocide-in-the-making, “Why is only limited aid getting to Palestinians inside Gaza?”, and it reported:
“I witnessed during my visit to Gaza last week the deliberate starvation of almost 2 million civilians, whilst the bombardment continues,” said Jan Egeland, secretary-general of the Norwegian Refugee Council, a major relief provider. “There is barely any aid crossing into Gaza.”
Israel … says the U.N. and international aid groups need to do a better job of distributing supplies, and criminal gangs are stealing aid before it gets to civilians.
The State Department spokesman Vedant Patel said that the progress to date must be supplemented and sustained but that “we at this time have not made an assessment that the Israelis are in violation of U.S. law” requiring recipients of military assistance to adhere to international humanitarian law and not impede the provision of such aid.
Who is the likelier to have spoken truthfully there, Jan Egeland (who called this deliberate starvation), or Israel (who blamed the criminal gangs, which do steal some of the supplies)?
The report also said:
Aid into Gaza is typically measured in terms of truckloads of food and supplies entering the territory. The U.S. has demanded 350 trucks daily.
Israeli government figures show roughly 57 trucks a day entering on average in Oct and 75 a day in November. The U.N. counts trucks differently and says it has only received 39 trucks daily since the beginning of October.
In northern Gaza, where the Israeli military has been carrying out a major offensive over the past month, the figures were even lower. No aid entered the northernmost areas of Gaza – Jabaliya, Beit Lahiya and Beit Hanoun – in October, the U.N. says. …
The World Food Program said vehicles filled with its supplies were denied access to Jabaliya, Beit Hanoun, and Beit Lahiya on Tuesday. The day before, the U.N. agency said it received approval from the army to deliver supplies to Beit Hanoun only to be stopped by [Israeli] troops on route in Jabaliya and ordered to offload the stockpile there. …
Aseel Baidoun, a senior manager at Medical Aid for Palestinians, said that drivers sometimes have to pay fees to move their aid from the crossing into Gaza.
He said the Israeli military was “failing to provide an enabling environment to bring in sufficient humanitarian goods to Gaza.”
Aid groups also say their warehouses and workers have come under attack from Israeli forces. OCHA says that at least 326 aid workers have been killed since the start of the war. It is not clear how many have been killed while working.
As the deadline passes, what does Israel say?
The U.S. has not yet said how it will respond to the low aid levels. Last week, the State Department said Israel needs to do more.
Another AP report on November 12th opened:
Biden and Israeli president meet in Washington
WASHINGTON — Israeli President Isaac Herzog said while meeting Tuesday at the White House that Iran was an “empire of evil,” adding that it needs to be a “major objective” of the United States to make sure the country and its proxies can not fulfill their intentions of annihilating Israel and obtaining nuclear weapons.
Herzog met with President Joe Biden as conflict and uncertainty continued to roil the Middle East.
Herzog noted an aerial attack on Tuesday from Lebanon that he said killed two Israelis. He also stressed that Israel needed the return of 101 hostages taken by Hamas during an October 7, 2023 to stop the fighting in Gaza.
“First and foremost we have to get the hostages back,” Herzog said.
“I agree,” Biden said. …
All of the major U.S. Presidential candidates — Biden, Harris, Trump, and Kennedy — ignored the genocide of the Gazans, which is being carried out by the Governments of U.S. and Israel. The so-called International Criminal Court is apparently waiting for the genocide to be completed before they will rule on whether or not it had been a genocide. Meanwhile, throughout all of the countries that are allied with America and Israel, almost all of the news-reports about whatever it is there, are prominently mentioning the 7 October 2023 attack by Hamas that killed 1,200 Israelis and took 200 hostages, as supposedly justifying whatever it will turn out to be called in international ‘law’ — retaliation, or genocide. This is Western ‘justice’ and ‘news’-reporting.
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* Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s latest book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U.S.-and-allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘news’ media but the social ‘sciences’ — duping the public.
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