The Return of Famine

As famine has returned, so has famine denialism.

The Financial Times reports on the return of famine in the world, including Israel’s man-made atrocity famine in Gaza:

“Israel has tried to persuade the world it isn’t a famine, but it has driven Gaza into one,” De Waal said. “Now the consequences are going to be many times more horrible than if they had listened to the people who were saying this was going to happen.”

Modern famines are the product of deliberate policy choices by governments and armed groups to use starvation as a weapon. We see one of the most extreme and intense examples of this in Gaza right now, but in recent years we have also seen it in Sudan, Yemen, Somalia, and Syria. The leaders responsible for these starvation crimes want hunger to do their killing work for them. They hope to drive their enemy’s civilian population into famine, and then they will feign outrage when anyone suggests that this is what they are trying to do.