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Israel Uses Starvation As An Inhumane Weapon Of War.

"You'll get hell." How Israeli officials justify using starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza.

A photo essay by Humaira Ahad / PressTV

Israeli policy in Gaza is using starvation as a weapon of war, with regime officials openly advocating blockade tactics to displace, kill, and exterminate Palestinians.

The faces of starvation: Huda used to run barefoot across the courtyard. Now, she slumps against a wall, too weak to stand. She is one of over a million children enduring Israel's starvation campaign in Gaza.

Hunger as a weapon: This is not accidental. Israel has weaponized food, water, and medicine - turning hunger into a method of war. Over 100 Palestinians - 80 of them children - have already died from starvation and dehydration.

A policy with deep roots: "We'll deprive Gaza of water, and the Arabs will leave." - Levi Eshkol, Israeli Prime Minister, 1967. This policy didn't begin in 2023. It's decades old, and now more explicit than ever.

The 'Calorie Limit' strategy: In 2007 Israeli officials calculated the minimum calories Palestinians needed to avoid famine - then blocked food just above that line. "The idea is to put Palestinians on a diet, but not to make them die of hunger," said Dov Weissglas, advisor to then Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.

Starvation goes public: Today, Israeli officials no longer hide it.

"Starve the Gazans and impose a siege to the max." - MK Moshe Saada

"The food and aid depots should be bombed in order to create military and political pressure." - Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir

"Israel has imposed a total blockade on Gaza - no electricity, no water, just damage. You wanted hell, you will get hell." -- Gen. Ghassan Alian

Systematic deprivation: Fuel, food, and water are blocked. UN-cleared trucks are turned back or attacked. Officials brag about cutting off Gaza's lifelines.

"We don't give them food - they will have to leave." - Daniella Weiss

Dehumanization: "They are human animals. No electricity. No water. No gas. We are fighting animals." - Top Israeli Generals and Ministers.

This language is used to justify mass starvation.

Gaza's grim choice: "Stay and starve, or leave." That's the ultimatum. Not for Palestinian resistance fighters, but for over 2 million civilians, half of them children.

This is not war. It is extermination by hunger.

A Simple Solution To America's Housing Crisis.

On an average night in the United States, more than 770,000 people are homeless, and this number includes children as well as adults. Of course, that's just an estimate from government sources. The real number is likely much higher, as outreach teams are unable to count every homeless person, especially those who are technically without housing but have friends who let them sleep on the couch for a few nights or who live in cheap motels when they can afford it. It's not beyond reason to think we could have a million people in America with no permanent, safe place to call home. It's often assumed that homelessness is caused by mental health issues or drug & alcohol abuse, but in reality, the main contributors to homelessness are a lack of housing supply, rising home values, and unaffordable rent. There simply aren't enough houses or apartments available, and as a result, prices go up and the requirements to qualify for a home loan or to be approved for a lease become unattainable for more and more people. The situation has gotten so bad that tent cities have sprung up in urban areas while others are forced to live in their cars. It's unacceptable that the world's most powerful nation is unable, or unwilling, to make sure every citizen has a home.

As usual, government officials have no solutions to what should be a simple problem. Could this be because the housing industry, which donates big money to politicians, prefers to keep the housing supply tight in an effort to keep prices high?

Despite what industry lobbyists say, I believe homelessness can be eliminated fairly easily, by diverting existing government expenditures from war and foreign aid and into a domestic building program.

First, some numbers: according to Janover Multifamily Loans, the current cost to build a 200 unit apartment complex ranges from $50 million to $100 million in an average city (not including major markets such as Manhattan and San Francisco). Since we need the most units possible and not luxury complexes, let's use the lower estimate of $50 million.

Now let's look at where the money could come from. We give Israel $3.8 Billion per year, and since October 2023 we've spent more than $23 Billion in military costs to enable their genocide against the people of Gaza. In Israel alone, we've wasted nearly $27 Billion that could have been used to help American citizens right here within our own borders. That money could have built 540 apartment complexes totaling 108,000 units.

In 2024 we gave Ukraine $1.2 Billion, Jordan $1.1 Billion, Ethiopia $874 Million, DR Congo $843 Million, Somalia $706 Million, South Sudan $657 Million, and Yemen $602 Million. (We give hundreds of millions more to other countries throughout the world in addition to these.) The total for these seven is $5,982,000,000, or roughly $6 Billion to make it easier to compute. That amount of money could have built another 120 apartment complexes totaling 24,000 units.

That's 132,000 homes built using the money we send overseas in just over a year, and in most cases that money is sent year after year. If we did nothing else but keep that money here instead of giving it away, we could continue to build thousands of homes every year and have 770,000 ready in less than six years. That's enough to house all the homeless we estimate we have now, plus provide thousands of jobs in construction and manufacturing. Getting people housed would also reduce crime, it would clean up our cities, and it would give people the hope they need to keep them from turning to drugs & alcohol.

We could gain even more units if local governments would loosen regulations prohibiting the construction of tiny homes and relax building codes that drive up construction costs. Homes need to be safe, but they also need to be available. Regulations and codes are often used to protect a city's image, but they do little good when residents are sleeping on sidewalks or in tents.

Our problem isn't a lack of funds; it's a lack of will combined with misplaced priorities. A nation is made up of its people, and those people can't be productive and contribute to the strength of the nation if they're struggling to stay alive.

Some will say my idea is socialism, a point I can't deny. While I strongly oppose all forms of Marxist ideology, we have a crisis that can be solved using money we're already spending. We just need to spend it on something that actually helps America instead of sending it to other nations that give us nothing in return. With a national debt of $37 Trillion that rises every day, we can no longer afford to fix the world while our own nation crumbles. Our focus has to be at home, at least until our internal problems have been taken care of.

Further, the apartment homes I've proposed wouldn't be given to tenants for free. Rent would be charged sufficient to maintain the properties and possibly return some funds to the federal treasury, but that rent would be affordable to people working the service jobs that help keep our economy going. We all like the convenience of fast food, for example, but the cashiers and the cooks have to live somewhere local or the restaurants won't be able to stay open. And do you really want the guy who makes your food to be living in a tent with no running water?

Ultimately, once we've gotten out of crisis mode, we can stop building apartments and start repairing our neglected infrastructure and paying down our debt. But no money should go overseas (other than for legitimate emergency humanitarian aid) until we've gotten our own nation built back strong again.

Because a strong homeland is the best kind of national security.

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Addendum:

After I published this article, I received some comments on social media suggesting that the best solution to the housing crisis would be to deport the illegal immigrants. Although that seems logical, here's is the reply I posted to explain why mass deportations will never happen:

"To show the fallacy of Trump's deportation psyop, I did some research and found there are an estimated 18.6 million illegal immigrants living in the United States, almost 6% of the total population. That's as many people as the total population of Cambodia and twice as many as live in Israel, Austria, or Switzerland. Deporting even 1/4 of the illegals would crash our economy, something Trump knows. Stunts like the "Alligator Alley" deportation camp are part of the theater that creates the perception that Trump is tough on immigration. In reality, even if 3.7 million people were deported every year, it would take five years to finish the job. (That's 10,136 people PER DAY, every day, for five years).

I'm not pro-immigration, but the numbers don't lie. We have an economy that is dependent on illegals. It also depends on income from illegal drugs, but that's a story for another day."

So while Trump will continue with his highly publicized deportations, he's going for the "low-hanging fruit" and the most violent criminals. What he's doing through ICE is essentially theater for the masses as well as a form of social training that conditions us to the sight of heavily armed police roaming the nation looking for targets. It won't make a significant dent in the number of illegals living in America nor will it solve the housing crisis.

Zionists Made Genocide Cheap.

Amid Gaza’s deepening humanitarian crisis, Israels Zionist regime and the United States have turned hunger into a weapon and aid centers into slaughterhouses, where a loaf of bread is pursued at the risk of death.

Gaza genocide:

653 Days
59,029 Killed
142,135 Wounded
11,000 Missing
Last updated: July 21, 2025

Revelations: July 4, 2025. Focus On The Middle East.

"It is not a war in Gaza. It is people in captivity being destroyed."

From Mondoweiss: "A Hebrew University poll shows an overwhelming majority of Jewish Israelis share genocidal belief that there are ‘no innocent people in Gaza’. 64% of Israelis agree with this statement, almost two out of three. But it is actually considerably higher among Jewish Israelis, because that number is heavily weighted by Palestinians with Israeli citizenship. Palestinians make up about 20% of the Israeli population and 92% of them oppose the statement, so that leaves Jewish Israelis with overwhelming support."

They then state, "All of Israeli society is radicalized and overwhelmingly supports genocide." As proof, Mondoweiss republished a social media post by Ayelet Shaked, who would later become a Justice Minister, that demonstrates a typical mindset among Israelis:

“Who is the enemy? The Palestinian people. Why? Ask them, they started [….] Behind every terrorist stand dozens of men and women, without whom he could not engage in terrorism. Actors in the war are those who incite in mosques, who write the murderous curricula for schools, who give shelter, who provide vehicles, and all those who honor and give them their moral support. They are all enemy combatants, and their blood shall be on all their heads. Now this also includes the mothers of the martyrs, who send them to hell with flowers and kisses. They should follow their sons, nothing would be more just. They should go, as should the physical homes in which they raised the snakes. Otherwise, more little snakes will be raised there.”  

Mondoweiss concludes by saying, "Genocidal thinking has always been a part of the Zionist project in one way or another, fueled by its settler-colonial logic of elimination."

Sadly, Israel has in large part become a society of psychopaths, hellbent on dominating the Middle East and feeling no empathy toward anyone who gets in their way. Woman and children are nothing but annoying obstacles and targets to shoot at by IDF soldiers with black hearts.

The post above highlights a story found on Haaretz, a newspaper in Israel. It describes how IDF soldiers were ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near food distribution sites in Gaza, even when no threat was present. This is just another example of how Israel has no regard for the sanctity of life.

Shown above is a quote by Rabbi Mani Friedman, who said, "The only way to fight a moral war is the Jewish way. Destroy their holy sites. Kill men, women, and children." No person with a spiritual connection to the divine could make such a horrible statement, but we frequently hear similar remarks coming from Israel.

If you need further proof, this video was recently released. It shows IDF soldiers raping a Palestinian woman to death. They had protests the week after when they were told not to rape anymore. This isn't sane behavior. It's the behavior of psychopaths, or possibly even the demonically possessed. And if it happened anywhere other than Israel, the world's leaders would condemn it. Instead, it's ignored, and for mentioning it here I'll most likely be called an "antisemite". That's the standard attack levied at anyone who exposes Israel's crimes.

Video [above]: War Crimes By Israeli Soldiers Caught On Video

Although psychopathic behavior seems to be common in Israel, this is not an indictment against every Israeli. The insanity is mostly exhibited by the Zionist population, but unfortunately they're in the majority. There are sane voices in Israel among the Christians, Muslims, and Orthodox Jews who also live there, but their voices are rarely heard above the noise of the Zionists.

Nate Bear of Do Not Panic! over on Substack has just written an article entitled, 'The Best-Selling Apps Made By Israeli Spies'. He reveals that many of the apps available for both Android and Apple phones are coming from companies in Israel or from companies led by former Unit 8200 Israeli intelligence personnel. Nate writes: "The developers behind hundreds of Android and iPhone apps with billions of downloads are former Israeli spies whose apps are generating significant revenues for Israel’s genocidal war economy. The proliferation of these apps on Apple’s App Store and the Google Play Store also raises questions over privacy and the harvesting of personal data, given the reputation of Israeli technology and past scandals involving spyware being smuggled onto devices by apps made in Israel. The identification of these apps should add another frontier to the boycott, divest, sanctions movement, as it provides a straightforward way for ordinary people to avoid Israeli products that contribute to apartheid, genocide and ethnic cleansing."

To find out which apps he's identified, check out his Substack page for the details.

I found this graphic (above) in a Telegram group. It seems like a good time to republish it since we just narrowly avoided World War 3 after Israel illegally attacked Iran, followed by a reckless and equally illegal attack by the United States under the command of Donald Trump. The justification for it all is the false claim that Iran has nuclear weapons that it plans to use to destroy Israel. This same claim has been pushed by Benjamin Netanyahu and various American war-hawks for decades despite intelligence data showing that Iran isn't actively building a nuclear bomb. Of course, with Israel as a neighbor, having such a bomb wouldn't be a bad idea. Israel has nukes, and it's often threatened to use them. But they don't want anyone else to have one.

For the sake of clarity in this age of endless propaganda, the graphic shows the differences between Israel and Iran and lets you decide which nation is the greater threat. I'm not suggesting that Iran has honorable intentions, but of the two nations, only one has repeatedly proven that it can't be trusted. (one revision: since this graphic was made, in response to Israel's illegal attacks, Iran has stopped cooperating with nuclear inspections.)

The whole "Iran can't have nukes" narrative has gotten so ridiculous it's even being talked about on Mastodon. Matthew Sheffield writes:

"Breaking: Despite Trump's bombing, Iran is still just weeks away from building a nuclear weapon - just like it has been for the past 30 years."

Here's a bit of history most Americans know nothing about: On July 3, 1988, Iran Air civilian flight 655 was shot down by the USS Vincennes over Iran's territorial waters in the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people on board, including 66 children and 16 women. The United States was not at war with Iran. After many denials and coverups, the United States eventually admitted fault and paid $61.8 million to the victims’ families. To learn more about the incident, go to Encyclopaedia Britannica.

As horrible as the world may seem at the moment, we have to keep talking about it and exposing the evil, no matter who is responsible. Because as Tolstoy said, "The wicked become even worse when they are tolerated".

The Way Forward: Thoughts On Staying Free.

The technocratic new world order, a global totalitarian society run by cold computer algorithms, is being put into place all around us this very minute. A system of constant surveillance and total control has been engineered for us, and most people don't even realize the system exists at all. We're being nudged into a digital prison where rules are created by artificial intelligence and punishments are handed out by inhuman decree. Soon, very soon, we'll have no freedom at all, as every action that doesn't contribute to our homogenized communitarian world will result in immediate penalties: lockdowns, isolation, asset seizure, and shame. Sadly, there's no political process that will get us out of this mess. Our elected officials are compromised, blackmailed, and bribed, and no longer represent us. Their allegiance is to the system that will enslave us.

So what do we do? Since we can't vote our way back to freedom and we can't out-gun governments run by crime cartels, the best way forward is non-compliance. Turn your back. Walk away. Just say no to whatever they want you to do. Create you own life and find a community outside of this sick system that wants to own your body and mind. Do whatever it takes to starve that system of money and power. Here are a few quotes to inspire you to do exactly that:

"Mass non-compliance is the only way forward." -- Timo Malum

“It is no longer left versus right. It is authoritarianism versus freedom.” -- Dean Cavanagh 

"Once people sense their own power, no authoritarian government can stand against the people who are determined to be free." -- Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

“Conform to no inkling ancestral, Conform to no habit historical.
Conform to no force external, Submit only to love universal.” -- Abhijit Naskar,

“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.” -- Henry David Thoreau​

“They know that ten heads lopped off will destroy them, but we are a free people; we have as many heads as we have people.” -- John Steinbeck

“Till you cut ties to all authoritarianism, you'll never sense the spark of holiness.” -- Abhijit Naskar

"Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from." -- Vernon Howard

“Your life is a message; make your rebellion an act of art that inspires the world.” -- Vera Nazarian

“Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.” -- Mortimer Adler

“True freedom will not be granted; it must be seized through acts of rebellion and defiance.” -- James Baldwin

“Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.” -- Mahatma Gandhi

Descent Into Madness.

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On Saturday, June 21 2025, President Donald J. Trump illegally bombed the sovereign nation of Iran in an unprovoked attack on locations Trump imagines houses research facilities for nuclear weapons. He did this on behalf of the rogue, Satanic nation of Israel, which previously launched its own illegal, unprovoked attacks on Iran on Friday, June 13, 2025. Iran has been retaliating against Israel ever since in an unsuccessful attempt to convince Israel to stop its daily bombing raids.

Where will this end? Iran has promised "measured actions" to protect itself from the Zionist-controlled United States federal government, and such actions could involve missile attacks on the many U.S. military bases in the Middle East. It could also include the closing of the Strait of Hormuz, a major shipping route that western nations rely on. A third of the world's liquefied natural gas and almost 25% of total global oil consumption passes through the strait. Closing the strait could possibly induce a global recession if it remained closed for more than a few weeks. If Trump or Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu then ramped up the war, it's possible other nations could be brought into the fight. Yemen is certain to ally with Iran, along with Pakistan and possibly Turkey and Iraq. Fighters aligned with Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza would also continue their efforts against Israel, putting Israel in the difficult position of fending off attacks on multiple fronts. It's also possible that China and Russia would provide backdoor aid to Iran in the form of weapons shipments.

Israel can't win this war without additional support from Trump. So what will he do next? It's hard to say, as he's unpredictable and obviously unstable, but it's a sure bet he will do whatever Israel wants him to do. Trump is owned by Israel, and some say he's being blackmailed by Mossad, Israel's intelligence agency that allegedly worked with Jeffrey Epstein to blackmail almost every influential politician in the United States and the United Kingdom. Trump will not do that which is moral, ethical, or in compliance with international law. He doesn't care about those things. He will do what he has to do to protect his wealth, his power, and his fragile ego. Only by submitting to Israel can those things be protected.

I'm not predicting World War 3 quite yet, although some analysts believe Israel's war against Iran is just a flashpoint of a global war we've already been in for a long time. But I do predict this war will become a lot uglier, a lot bloodier, and a lot more expensive, really fast.  Iran is not going to give up, nor should they. Israel started this mess and it's up to them to end it. The United States could help end it if would stop sending money and weapons to Israel, but of course that will never happen as long as our government remains under their control.

My biggest fear is that Israel will use its "Samson Option", which is their pledge to use nuclear weapons on Europe, the United States, Iran, or even on its own people if it feels sufficiently threatened and thinks its existence is at risk. With madman Netanyahu running the show, the Samson Option is a real possibility that we all need to stay aware of.

My hope is that the Israeli people become angry at the chaos Netanyahu has brought their country and they rise up and send him into exile, or better yet, to a work camp in Gaza.

And I also hope that God enters Donald Trump's heart and he begins to behave like the Christian he only pretends to be now.

Otherwise, he'll descend further into madness and take the rest of the world with him.