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As Gaza starves, Netanyahu jokes about McDonald’s with ‘manosphere’ podcasters Nelk Boys
Gaza is starving. Nearly 100,000 women and children are suffering from severe acute malnutrition, and a third of Gaza’s population is going days without eating, according to an expert from the UN World Food Programme. Tons of food sits rotting in warehouses just outside Gaza but the government of Israel will not allow it to be freely delivered. Instead, starving Palestinians must contend with a real-life version of The Hunger Games to try to eat. More than 1,000 desperate Palestinians have been shot dead by Israeli forces since the end of May trying to reach food distribution points run by the US – and the Israel-backed Gaza “Humanitarian” Foundation.
But enough about that, eh! Who wants to hear about starving babies who will either die painful deaths or never fully recover from the long-term consequences of malnutrition in early childhood? I’m sure what you really want to know is what Benjamin Netanyahu’s favourite fast-food order is. And, luckily, I’ve got some answers for you.
On Monday Netanyahu, one of the main architects of Gaza’s human-made mass starvation campaign, gave an hour-long interview to Nelk Boy members Kyle Forgeard and Aaron Steinberg on their Full Send Podcast.
If you are not in their target demographic (a young man with right-leaning tendencies), you might not know much about the collection of media personalities known as the Nelk Boys, but they wield a lot of influence. They have more than 8.5 million subscribers on YouTube and have interviewed Donald Trump multiple times. While they initially built a name for themselves as pranksters, they’ve now aligned themselves with the likes of the self-proclaimed misogynist Andrew Tate and went all-in on Trump’s 2024 campaign. Some political scientists believe that they are partly responsible for Trump’s second term. Indeed, the Nelk Boys, along with other “manosphere”-adjacent podcasters such as Adin Ross, Theo Von and Joe Rogan, even got a shout-out from the UFC CEO ,Dana White, at Trump’s election night victory party.
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