Road to Famine: Israeli Law Prof. Neve Gordon on Israel's History of Weaponizing Food Access in Gaza
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As the world reels from the World Central Kitchen attack in which seven aid workers in Gaza were struck and killed by three separate Israeli missiles while delivering aid for starving Palestinians, we speak with prominent Israeli scholar Neve Gordon about Israel's history of weaponizing food access in the Gaza Strip via the destruction of Palestinian agricultural land, labor restrictions and blockade, "controlling and managing the population through food insecurity." Neve Gordon is a professor of human rights law and author of multiple books on Israel's occupation of Palestine whose latest essay for The New York Review of Books is titled "The Road to Famine in Gaza." Now as aid deliveries dry up amid fears of further attacks on humanitarian workers, Gordon emphasizes that "Israel has been controlling the food basket and using it as a weapon since the beginning of the occupation until today."
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If BRIBERY is a criminal act for all employees , likewise it should be a criminal offense for the LOBBYISTs and lawmakers/congressmen...
Good point. Lobbying subverts the will of the people, the power of the vote.
It's why there's NO democracy
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Imagine Nazi Germany 🇩🇪 investugating their own war crimes.
Yip, you've said it well
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The European countries, the USA, and others take pride in endorsing the values of Enlightenment, human rights, freedom of speech, and democracy. However, in the last six months, it was clearly to be seen how economic, military and political interests hide behind the label of good and friendly allies, and the guilt of the holocaust. Every violent death of an innocent person, irrespective of its magnitude, is a guilt of a whole nation. These countries must learn to come off the hypocrisy of ostentatiously championing human rights and at the same time supplying weapons. Israel cannot be so important that all these countries lose sight of their ethical principles, that is, in the last resort, their sanity.
I think the ethical standards are a myth. Their hypocrisy has never been more clear
America has always been the biggest terrorist on the planet, not six months.
lol I don’t know where you have been the past 50+ years but we (United States) have been about profit at all costs. It’s disgusting.
Israel is forever. Every country will erase accept Israel.
It's not that Israel is so important. It's because Hollywood is run by a particular group, and many financial and media institutions are overrepresented by a particular group. Let's not forget that Christianity ORIGINATES from a particular group and most western nations are built by Christianity. I'd say "important" is the wrong concept. It's more like the western nation's have been molded by and for a particular group.
This is too much, it breaks my heart to see these children dying of malnutrition in front of her mother 😢😢😢 Free Palestine! 🇵🇸
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Pray & lift Your VOICE in Protest & continue to donate to Charities to help them!
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SHAME ON ALL COUNTRIES THAT SUPPORT ISRAEL WITH WEAPONS.
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And still US govt says ' our policy has not changed. We support Israel'.
I think it's disgusting what we r supporting.
@@daydreonmckinneyKeep calling and emailing your politicians and asking for this to end. In a regular basis. When thousands do this, it makes a difference.
It is unacceptable what US saying
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I am outraged! Shame on all those nations that stand by and even support this criminal Netanyahu regime!
and the criminal, evil Biden administration. They are a shame for all of us. So much sadistic evil, what dehumanized humans they are.
Shame on Egypt for keeping the Rafah border shut. Egypt a Muslim country stands by and watching these innocent muslims suffer. Free the Palestinians…open the border into Egypt! Why are the Arab nations doing nothing?
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It is painful to witness genocide, it is more painful not to be able to do anything to assist Palestinians as an individual. The countries, governments and especially US support these cruelities
Was it also painful for you to watch the genocide of Oct 7 or does that not count bc it happened in Israel?
Caught on Gopro video by Hamas themselves- video available and seen by thousands worldwide including international journalists
Hamas thought were killing only Jews but ended up also killing their own Muslims, non Jews and foreigners like Philippines, thai…
100% agree this is all USA and western countries
Where is the genocide ICJ said no?
Stop using the word Genocide. You don't know what it means, and you sound silly parroting it. In fact the only genocide that has taken place in this conflict, was perpetrated on Israelis by Hamas (and other residents of Gaza) on 10/7. If you knew the definition, then you'd know that.
@@jamiehoran3901you like 98% of Israeli citizens support Genocide and apartheid and starving over a million Palestinians and they wonder why they're so hated by the world. Theyre criminally insane!
thanks Neve Gordon for this interview. I personally have a better understanding of the atrocities Israeli have been commiting over the years . Sad to say mainstream media has never brought this to the wider world to better understand this long standing conflict . Thanks again Democracy Now for this . Please keep bring interviews like this .
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The most shocking of all of this: Seeing how local Israeli media have covered this war, and their take on the genocide
I don't know how Israel is covering it other that they are hiding it. What is most shocking is that America's mainstream media is still siding with Israel and hardly covering anything horrible in Gaza at all. They could not avoid covering the deliberate deaths of the hunger aid workers but many still are calling it an accident and are waiting for Israel to "investigate" it.
Shame on both Democrats and Republicans standing in front of the world looking on at a live genocide and are doing nothing but shipping more deadly weapons to Israel.
AND Western Politicians and Médias
Now, I'm NOT proud to be canadian
Mind Begs the Question:
- If Nazis escaped
- Embed in another Nation,Religion
- Rename their Political Movement
- Can't be recognized
- Can be recognized by Matching Policies
- Starvation,Death Camps,Gas Chambers/White Phosphorus,Pogroms,Ethnic Cleansing,etc?
There is no coverage of anything, neither in the european mainstream media, nothing !
Some are mentioning as israel defending ( still ) but that's it ! There are the independent commentators (british, italians, french and spanish ) that are regularly streaming !
I can picture Biden licking an ice cream cone, while watching this newscast.
The situation is shocking- more shocking is how the US-Uk-EU is resisting the call to stop supplying arms, refusing to send aide, refusing to enact the UN resolutions. The world will NEVER forgive this
The US-UK-EU are not acting to stop the genocide because they engaged in the same behavior some time ago and it is my opinion that they have been paid off to look the other way.
no, the world forgets easily enough. Remember the Holocaust? Remember the war of independence of 1948? Remember the 3 day war, Yom Kippur, the war with Lebanon? Entebbe? The world is short sited and now America can go back to its commercial ads of luxury cars and desserts, while Israel fights for its life. Israelis love their children too.
I am absolutely NOT proud to be Canadian because of the hypocrisy and complicity of many canadian politicians and media.
Up until recently May people either didn’t know it didn’t care. That really doesn’t seem to be the case any more.
How is a UN resolution enacted?
This attack on the World Central Kitchen’s convoy was NOT unintentional! The Israelis can’t help but brag about how much they know of where their targets are located and how accurately they’re able to strike them. The fact that there were three separate attacks in a row speaks to the intentionality of the attacks. To claim that this was an accident is pure falderal. For the humanitarian aid workers to coordinate with the IDF is to sign their own death warrants these days. They’d probably be better off to make clandestine arrangements to provide the needed assistance, and certainly NOT to share that information with the United States government. That government is NOT trustworthy!
I think you pretty well summed up the brutality of the Israelis and the deliberate targeting of aid workers.
Proof?
@@semsemeini7905~ it’s in the pudding. All you gotta do is EAT it.
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Keep exposing Israel!
We have to rely on unbiased news like this. joutube will not allow anybody to write these same things.
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we need a GLOBAL MARCH toward RAFAH for FOOD aid
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Thank you for having the professor. I'm appalled that I haven't paid attention. We're complicit in the USA..
NO we are NOT. NOT in the UK and NOT in the US. Overriding democracy is a dictatorial act. And they are doing all this against our will.
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Thank you Dr. Gordon and Democracy Now!
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اللهم ارزق أهل فلسطين الثبات والنصر والتمكين، وبارك في إيمانهم وصبرهم
When one group can shut off all utilities, supplies, food, water, medicine, push the people around like poor cattle, THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG.
The world needs to get this crazy stopped.
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Thank you for the very important program, very special is the guest! ThANK YOY AGAIN!
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God bless you Neve - it's people like you who give me hope for the people of Gaza - the world needs to know what's really happening in Palatine.
Great interview ! Still watching you from Greece ! Thank you for everything !
Prof Neve Gordon is among the very few who mentioned why Oct 7 happened. Thank you. The whole media needs to repeat this REALITY of why Oct 7 happened. Without it no words make sense at all.
Thank you for showing the Palestinian mothers. ❤ I'm a father. It's very important that we have an emotional link to the Palestinian people in order to fight their dehumanisation. There are so many cynical comments in defence of Israel out there. Let's fight for our shared humanity.
You are so right and the comments in defense for Israel are coming from both the Democrats and the Republicans.
amen
Cynical and cowards that don't mention Iran role and the genocide Hamas played in Israel and this are things that happen to thy initiated it Iran and Hamas these hypocrites who would not attack back if they were attacked like Israel was
God bless you Israel
That's right good for Israel
Yeah because not everybody agrees with your coward comment
Human rights what about usreldrights dic I mean doc
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He sums up Israel's history of crimes against Gaza perfectly. And succinctly.
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Shame on humanity
The world community needs access to reality on the ground. We need deeper understanding on starvation and the combined effects of lack of clean water, access to medical care, and necessary intravenous electrolytes. How many infants are dying due lack of maternal nutrition during pregnancy, what are the numbers of infants born small for gestational age, premature births, low birth weight.? Can these babies be rescued by giving them frozen donated breast milk? What are the consequences of starvation on muscle wasting, neural and brain development? What kinds of supplies are needed? How do we get the supplies to these children? At what point are the consequences irreversible? Who is documenting this forced starvation? how and what kinds of data is being tracked? Where is stored? Where is it sent?
This interview falls short on addressing the very issues at hand. The cries and helplessness of these mothers is shattering. The world community must gain more comprehensive understanding of the gravity - short and long term consequences- what we can do. The ongoing atrocities must be stopped- truth must be disclosed, recorded and acted on.
The president of Egypt is also responsible as he could use military to see the trucks through the gate.
Mind Begs the Question:
- If a States policies are
- Starvation,Death Camps,Pogroms,Gassing/White Phosphorus,Ethnic Cleansing,etc
- Has the right to exist?
In their own minds the answer is yes. Why the world is sitting on its butt is the universal question for me right now.
Nonsense! Point to a state policy in Israel which legitimizes any of these charges. Where is it?
Israel is not starving Gazans. In fact, that is Hamas. Israel inspects the trucks. The trucks go through the gate. There they sit. 2 months ago, the UN requested that Israel stop inspecting on Saturdays. They simply haven't got the capacity to deliver the aid at the pace it is being cleared for delivery by the IDF.
There are no death camps in Gaza. Point to one. Do you know what a death camp is? The Jews do. Learn.
Programs? None of them either. Point to one.
Gas? Where?
White phosphorous? Where?
Ethnic cleansing? Where?
Clearly not all himanbeingsrthinkingbeings.
Thanks Amy And Naomi
This can't be the precedent for the 21st century.
Haaretz: Doctor at Israeli Field Hospital for Detained Gazans: 'We Are All Complicit in Breaking the Law
Gazan hostages at Israel's Sde Teiman "concentration camp" are having their legs amputated from being zip-tied by all 4 limbs for months; they're being forced to defecate in diapers & fed through straws.
If Biden could watch a video of that, he would be licking a three scoop ice cream cone
*What type of education, religion, and culture, could produce a people who keep those they conquer with a food insecure diet and starvation in times of trouble (mowing the grass).*
I can imagine books being written just on the single subject of Palestinian people being victims of their food being withheld as weapon to kill them, by Israeli colonists. There could be a library of new subjects of books all about this century of cruelty to Palestinian people by mainly the colonists, and America.
True, but the British colonizers were there first, and should shoulder the initial blame for the ethnic cleansing to have begun. Edit: My attempt to edit will tell me if my comment is shadow banned or not. One gets a "returned error" if it is.
Here's a list of documentaries if you want a deep dive into the decades of abuse:
🍉 5 broken cameras (nominated for Oscar)
🍉 Cold Stone Justice
🍉 Gaza’s fight for freedom
🍉 Checkpoint 2003
🍉 O¢¢upation 101
🍉 Jenin, Jenin
🍉 Shadows of the West
🍉 Defamation
🍉 Tantura (on internet archives)
🍉 Born in Deir Ya$$in
🍉The o¢¢upation of Am€rican Mind
🍉 Two ßlue Lines
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@@ArleeStarr do you think your argument is relevant to this situation?
@@lindarushton6502 Yes. The Brits, before they left Mandatory Palestine, looked the other way when the znists started their ethnic cleansing, and allowed it to happen. Every village blown up, forced relocation and massacres of the indigenous people was just practice to see what will be condemned by the rest of the world and US. Which brings us to your point.
Anyone remember the movie wargames? It was the first time that i realised that nations do projections, concerning political , economic and military decisions it will have to make 5, 10, 20 years in the future. Being a U..K. citizen i know we do it and i have no doubt America does it so i wondered how those projections would work out, concerning Israel. At present it is viewed as a proxy in the region but is that now changing, at present No given concerns over Iran but could it become politically nescessary to cut those ties?. If you look at the political demographics of Israel there have been major changes over the past few decades. The birth rate of those with moderate to left leaning with secular views is declining add to that growing emigration of this class. Add to this the purposeful policy of having large family's amongst the religious right and conservatives has seen the rise to power of Likud and it's allies and that will see it consolidated in the future given that israeli youth are more conservative than any time in its past. Extremist religious groups have positions of power in ministerial posts and there is a growing policy towards the idea of a greater Israel. This will turn Israel into a " supposed " defensive nature to an overtly expansionist one. We could already be seeing that occuring. This projection would seriously affect U.K. and U.S. foreign policy concerning the oil rich middle east states and also their own internal politics considering how Israel is now being viewed as committing genocide in many quaters. So the question asked should be. Should we stop military aid and political support to Israel to stem its move to a more extreme outlook especially as it has nuclear capabilities? My answer would be YES and as soon as possible
Malnutrition among *children* is spreading fast and reaching devastating and unprecedented levels in Gaza . Supplies of nutritious food have virtually run out, and for many families, the threat of dying from hunger is already real.
Who do you blame for those conditions? I'll bet it's not your leaders.
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the world just stands silently watching this massacre, hunger, hardship and cruelty
This should be on major network channels.
No more famine anywhere
Netanyahu will end up like Hitler that is for sure.
For you no famine in Gaza. Because you have too much food.
I don’t even know what to say to this kind of stupidity
@@Goldenheart77 sounds like the nattering of an idealistic child.
The fact that it's man-made makes it 1000X more heinous.
In a way this is one of the most important pieces you've done for ages: it lays bare the truth of the US relationship with Israel. In truth when asked if he thinks that the attacks on WCF constitute war crimes, what John Kirby really thinks is "I don't care."
Stop Netanyahu now.
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Isreal not only preventing the aid to enter Gaza, but when the war started in October the time to harvest the Olive. Nevertheless, Isreal not only prevented the Palestinians of harvest their Oliver, but also cut down the trees and the Israelis settlers harvest what ever they could. Thus, this starvation was planned side by side with the genocides
Report on this @Tucker This is shameful that we as humans are allowing our fellow man to live like this and to be starved to death by Israel😢🥺💔
Great informative guest-much appreciated!
❤ Neve Gordon from humanity
Ev il israhell
I wish I could take from what I have and give to my Palestinian sisters and brothers.. we must not forget, we must not forgive.
" O Well " ( The American and Israeli government. )
Thanks for this informative video
And currently in the USA.
Thank you for this DN.
Even when you know these things to have it put out so methodically needs to be shown to all
My heart is bleeding. I can only ask Allah to protect our brothers and sisters in Gaza!
Ci dobbiamo vergognare tutti!
Top.. Danke
Hallo
Die Situation ist ganz einfach.
Jemand trägt die Schuld an diesem Unfall. Und im Moment kuckt da ein Neitanjahoo oben raus.
Nen bisschen was zu meinem Background - ich bin mit ca.400€ bei O... Arms drin. Die haben das Geld ohne Abzug am WFC weitergeleitet.
Ich hoffe dieser Kommentar ist aufgeräumt und verständlich formuliert.
Zähneknischend Grüße von der Ostseeküste
O... Arms
WFC
Nietanyahoo
Beyond appalling! I am speechless!
The same situation of famine, starvation and genocide existed in Sudan but the world ignores it.
This is true. Africa hasn’t been getting that much attention despite of the fact that more people have been displaced and a much larger population is being starved.
The U S needs to get on the ball and demand aide to get in immediately.
I think the 🇺🇸 need to stop sending arms.
Meanwhile, the occupiers are watching these types of news clips, while enjoying their family meals made from foods grown on stolen Palestinian land.
I'll never forget seeing a woman in a group blocking aid trucks (with the ok of the military who are supposed to get civilians out). And she was rocking her fat baby and laughing while no aid got 200 yards further (where I know another mother was rocking her hungry scared wounded child without hope).
@@donnavorce8856 When the aid trucks were gone, the sociopaths were given watermelon and lollies for the kids by the IOF. I wrote on another thread previously, that at least the Germans, between 1920s to 1940s, had an age limit on the hate indoctrination they taught their youth groups.
4:50 ; 5:22 (1967) ; 6:49 (1st Intifada) ; 7:25 (2nd Intifada) ; 8:34 ; 11:47 ; 13:07 (Gaza vs. 'izrael' economic disparity because of the blockade, etc.)
That historical summary sounds an awful lot like something you would hear about Nazi Germany in the 1930s.
Shame on everyone letting this happen! These poor people are suffering. Thie should be stopped now. Please free these people from this horror.
Bless you Never!
unforgivable
Absolutely incomprehebsible and horrifying what Palestinians are subjected to for decades!! So sorry
And Israel keeps going on with its military assualt (with the aid of Americans and their allies) and the Americans say it's all still about defence for Israel..
I am Algerian-Irish every day, I cry for Palestine, the West you have the bloody hands of a genocide, we will NEVER forget
I find it amazing how we are so quickly going so backwards.
We will have to answer to God about this unprecedented inhumane time. Even us who are pro humanity.
History repeats itself....
For f...k sake!!!!!!!! Free Palestine now!!!!!!!!
A vote for Biden/Trump is a vote for Netanyahu.
CORNEL WEST ! ! Heard his opinions etc and he makes lot of sense! Maybe a bit radical comparing to the others but hey, time to change course or we'll all sink !
I don't understand how the U.S ,Muslim States & Most European Countries watching this and not demanding that Israel stop and help the people of Gaza. This is heartbreaking wicked & unacceptable. As I keep say Israel will pay a high price for this one day . An Unfortunately it will be innocent Israeli's who will feel the brunt .
Самое страшное, что после убийства своих сотрудников, эта благотворительная Миссия собирается уходить из Газы.. А это ускорит смертный приговор Палестинцам!!! Это 170 000 горячих обедов в сутки, которых лишат Палестинцев, и именно этого добивался Израиль.. Позор человечеству за то что мы позволили этот Герцид!!!
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How do we distribute this video to people?
Here's more you can cut and paste this list and share it all over:
🍉 5 broken cameras (nominated for Oscar)
🍉 Cold Stone Justice
🍉 Gaza’s fight for freedom
🍉 Checkpoint 2003
🍉 O¢¢upation 101
🍉 Jenin, Jenin
🍉 Shadows of the West
🍉 Defamation
🍉 Tantura (on internet archives)
🍉 Born in Deir Ya$$in
🍉The o¢¢upation of Am€rican Mind
🍉 Two ßlue Lines
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This is palastanians Holocaust.Unfortunately
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Crying for those children , humanity is dead the law of the ocean is taking place in front of our eyes. The bigger the stronger crash the week, the children, women, and elderly
Supporting this behavior makesthe US no better. WE HAVE TO STOP YESTERDAY!!!
War criminals it makes my blood boil.
And now the whole world knows.
If this isn't being nąz¦ş, nothing is.
Free Palestine
Level gaza & palastine
The only word to describe this is pure evil.
Allah
We have none, but you
Your might has no limit
Your favours have no boundaries
Help the palesrinians
May God forgive the world for its stupid political leaders who have allowed this to happen
Algo
So it didn’t start on the October the 7th. So it’s not not self-defence.
It’s 50 decades premeditated.
I think the people of Gaza have long since lost hope for humanity. 6 months and still no help.
I kept thinking how to articulate my belief that Americans are different from Israelis, finlly I found a documentry. 8 M wtched this. . .
This is pure evil slavery.
So sad and angry to watch this!
Shame on Israel
I cannot think of Israeli real anti-apartheid activists who do not live in exile
We need a rushed election too.
Feed my sheep...sigh...wakeup state dept...shame