I hate the deviousness of “there is food on Gaza” thing that the zionists are doing now, because it’s technically true that there is some food in Gaza. The problem is that there is nowhere near enough food to feed everyone, and what food is available is ridiculously expensive and therefore essentially out of reach of the vast majority of people living in Gaza. Like I saw one guy saying recently a can of beef was like 20 bucks a can. So sure technically “there is food in Gaza” but 20 bucks for a can of beef is impossibly expensive.
So they get to hide behind this partial truthism and if you press them on it they can fall back on the usual capitalist bullshit of “well work harder, make more money, move somewhere cheaper, etc etc etc” shit that they genuinely believe applies to everyone all of the time and is in their minds entirely defensible and the conversation just becomes a recursive “there is food and just do capitalism better to eat it or they don’t deserve it”. It ignores entirely the material conditions of what is happening and who is causing it.
I don’t think that it’s broadly working as a PR strategy but it is absolutely throwing a wrench into genuine conversations about what genocide looks like and how this absolutely qualifies because it turns the conversation from “Isreal is doing a measured and intentional genocide” to “well maybe they’re trying and Palestinians just need to work harder” or some bullshit. I guess theyve always been doing this but it feels like “there is food” is the number one propaganda point that I keep running into now and it’s sickening in its measured deviousness
In modern days, even, famine is not naturally made by a lack of food anymore but man-made by policies which deliberately create conditions of, if not directly the scarcity of food and water (something Israel is doing, by blockading and blocking most of the thousands of necessary supply trucks, destroying farms, fishing areas etc, blocking out the energy needed to cook and preserve food, forbidding any independent water-treatment facilities)
At best, it is made by mistaken policies (which no one should believe), at worst, policy intended to starve out the population, with genocidal intent and planning
Sickness nowadays is not natural in our modernized society likewise - it is only caused by the neglect, if not wilful spread of viruses, diseases, et al.
Yet, these Zionists, these same people have the same gall to say a baby born and dying in the extermination camp, had ‘pre-existing’ health conditions
I hate the deviousness of “there is food on Gaza” thing that the zionists are doing now, because it’s technically true that there is some food in Gaza. The problem is that there is nowhere near enough food to feed everyone, and what food is available is ridiculously expensive and therefore essentially out of reach of the vast majority of people living in Gaza. Like I saw one guy saying recently a can of beef was like 20 bucks a can. So sure technically “there is food in Gaza” but 20 bucks for a can of beef is impossibly expensive.
So they get to hide behind this partial truthism and if you press them on it they can fall back on the usual capitalist bullshit of “well work harder, make more money, move somewhere cheaper, etc etc etc” shit that they genuinely believe applies to everyone all of the time and is in their minds entirely defensible and the conversation just becomes a recursive “there is food and just do capitalism better to eat it or they don’t deserve it”. It ignores entirely the material conditions of what is happening and who is causing it.
I don’t think that it’s broadly working as a PR strategy but it is absolutely throwing a wrench into genuine conversations about what genocide looks like and how this absolutely qualifies because it turns the conversation from “Isreal is doing a measured and intentional genocide” to “well maybe they’re trying and Palestinians just need to work harder” or some bullshit. I guess theyve always been doing this but it feels like “there is food” is the number one propaganda point that I keep running into now and it’s sickening in its measured deviousness
I’d like to point out
In modern days, even, famine is not naturally made by a lack of food anymore but man-made by policies which deliberately create conditions of, if not directly the scarcity of food and water (something Israel is doing, by blockading and blocking most of the thousands of necessary supply trucks, destroying farms, fishing areas etc, blocking out the energy needed to cook and preserve food, forbidding any independent water-treatment facilities)
At best, it is made by mistaken policies (which no one should believe), at worst, policy intended to starve out the population, with genocidal intent and planning
Sickness nowadays is not natural in our modernized society likewise - it is only caused by the neglect, if not wilful spread of viruses, diseases, et al.
Yet, these Zionists, these same people have the same gall to say a baby born and dying in the extermination camp, had ‘pre-existing’ health conditions
When you put it that way it sounds positively American
fuck… did I say anything wrong?