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Last April, I wrote Forgive Me, Gaza—a personal reflection of anguish and helplessness. Today, there is no room for introspection. It is no longer about personal guilt. We are witnessing an Israeli campaign of mass starvation, mass destruction, and mass slaughter made possible only by global indifference.

There is no hunger in Gaza. There is an American-enabled Israeli starvation.

The genocide in Gaza is not the consequence of war. It’s pretextual. This is not an opinion, but documented facts, with intent, and expressed openly by Israeli officials, from the president down to ordinary citizens.

This intent is not the fringe views of a few extremists, as the Zionist-managed media would have you believe. It is the mainstream. An overwhelming 82% of Jewish Israelis support the ethnic cleansing of Gaza, with a significant portion openly endorsing the mass killing of civilians. This is the grim reality. This is the Israeli culture, nurtured and sustained by Western powers desperate to atone for their own historical crimes against Jews by imposing a settler-colonial Zionist project in the heart of the Arab world.

A diabolical culture manifests in starving millions by a regime intoxicated by its own impunity. In October 2023, Israeli President Isaac Herzog erased the line between civilians and combatants, announcing, “It is an entire nation out there that is responsible.” With that one sentence, he demonized all civilians and handed down the collective death sentence we witness today against 2.3 million people. Last week, he doubled down claiming that the Israeli siege is “in keeping with … Israeli and Jewish values.”

The then-Defense Minister Yoav Gallant resonated the same Zionist ideological hate, “We are putting a complete siege … No electricity, no food, no water, no gas.” His successor, Defense Minister Israel Katz, was no less brazen in his recent declaration: “No humanitarian aid will enter Gaza.”

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich went even further, openly stating that mass starvation was morally justified. With terrifying openness, he advocated ethnic cleansing,........

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