It's Happening Again

From Robert Reich's substack, a haunting article about the latest genocide. 

A betrayal of the victims of the Holocaust

The world’s leading hunger monitor, Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, said Gaza is in a famine that has “worsened dramatically” in the last few months. The number of Palestinians killed has officially surpassed 60,000. A new Gallup poll shows 6 in 10 Americans disapprove of Israel’s military actions in Gaza.

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Occasionally I come across an article in the foreign press that strikes me as so important that I want to share it with you. The following was originally published on July 27 in Haaretz, the longest-running newspaper currently in print in Israel. It was published in Hebrew.

Silence in the Face of Gaza’s Starvation is Absolute Betrayal of Holocaust Victims

By Orit Kamir 

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But in 2025, the Israeli army, on orders from the political echelon, is destroying Gaza and exterminating its population. Neighborhood after neighborhood and city after city in the Strip are destroyed to the foundations, and people are expelled with nothing and pushed to crowd into increasingly smaller areas. Like then. After we destroyed all infrastructure, including hospitals, the mortality is relentless. Families constantly shrink and thousands have already been erased from the face of the earth. Others leave behind hopeless orphans, abandoned to their fate. Like then.

Since Israel broke the ceasefire in March, Gaza's besieged population has also been deliberately and systematically starved. Israel allows only very little food to enter the Strip, and what little is allowed in is brought in a way that cannot reach all residents. Children, the sick, the elderly, people weakened by hunger - cannot reach the four food distribution stations Israel created, instead of the 400 stations that operated before. We have decreed their fate to languish until they die of hunger, weakness, and disease. Relatively strong young people who do reach the distribution stations to get some relief are shot to death daily by Israeli soldiers.

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Those who rejoice in Gaza's destruction and annihilation, those who justify or rationalize the horror with talk of revenge for the terrible massacre of October 7 - have lost their souls. But those who can still feel human emotion must wake from the paralyzing slumber and shake off this unforgivable betrayal.

What's happening in Gaza is a crime against humanity, and whether you quibble over the definition or not, a genocide of a people. Over 60,000 Palestinians are dead and more die every day, their deaths celebrated by people who should know better. 

America destroyed itself by its reaction to 9/11. I am horrified to see Israel follow in our bloodstained footprints.

"Never again" is supposed to mean something.