Famine is not easily organized.
It takes planning.
It takes vision.
It takes a complicit international media that constantly tells viewers not to believe their eyes.
It takes a coalition of Western states that protect Israel politically while it meticulously assembles the building blocks of mass murder.
It takes vetoes in the UN Security Council that ensure that murderous plans aren't disrupted.
It takes talking heads in Western media who systematically dehumanize Palestinians.
It takes New York Times headline writers who make readers believe that no one really knows who is committing genocide, who is bombing refugees, who is orchestrating the famine. Do we really know conclusively that it isn't the Martians?
It takes Members of Congress who blame infants that were born 4 months ago for the events of October 7, 2023.
It takes European leaders who are willing to sacrifice their own democracy and the human rights of their own people for the sake of Israel starving Palestinian babies to death.
It takes an American Military Industrial Complex that can produce bombs as fast as Israel can kill toddlers.
It takes cowardly University professors who value donors more than students and profit more than education.
It takes American Presidents who put Israel before America.
By Trita Parsi
