But what if it’s true? What if this is literally the conclusion of the latest UN report on the question, which states explicitly that previous claims of famine were based on incorrect assumptions that didn’t pan out? What then? When does atrocity invention become the frightening part? The strangest part of this denialism is that Gazans are still massively suffering. The displacement is real, the uncertainty, the fear. Families, children, in tents throughout the rains of winter and the blistering heat of summer. We should still care and be fearful for them even if there’s no deliberate starvation, even if the Israelis aren’t quite the monsters you need them to be. Why isn’t the real suffering enough? What’s this terrible fear of discovering that Gazans aren’t actually dying of starvation? Thank God there’s no famine, intentional or otherwise. People matter more than your moral cartoons. And repeating the claim another hundred-thousand times won’t make it true. https://bird.makeup/@doylech/1808070572611441132
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