Currently Online 
‘Starvation is the point’: Israeli assault on Rafah puts aid in jeopardy for Gaza’s starving
Antony Loewenstein, author of The Palestine Laboratory, which focuses on Israel’s military-technological complex, said the Israeli military’s attacks on Rafah threatens to exacerbate the famine being imposed on Gaza.
“Every aid organisation is saying for months that there is a literal famine going on in the northern part of Gaza and many other parts of Gaza, and a key entry point for the aid that is getting in is … Rafah,” Loewenstein told Al Jazeera.
“So if that shuts, what that essentially shows – which has been clear for months – is that starvation is the point.
“I think for a lot of people in the international community the idea that a state – that we see as democratic … would deliberately starve a Palestinian population is seen as so outrageous…. But in fact that’s what they are doing right now.
“Even the areas…that Israel has claimed as so-called safe zones – and there are no safe zones in Gaza – are being bombed.
“And yet again, we see that the US and frankly much of the international community… will not put a brake on Israel, which they could.”
CNN's take Analyst: Hamas trying to look good by agreeing to proposal Jake Tapper of course
Always blame it on Hamas!
Essay Pro