Chicago journalist Gerald Farinas puts Israel's atrocity in Gaza in proper historical perspective:
We are watching people starve to death in 2025, and someone is telling us it isn’t happening.
The pictures coming out of Gaza make my stomach turn. Children who look like skeletons with skin stretched over their bones. Babies who weigh less than Winston, my friends’ white kitten. Mothers holding their dying babies, not from bombs this time, but from hunger.
There have been precedents.
In the 1930s, Stalin’s government took food away from Ukraine. Between 4 and 7 million Ukrainians starved to death in what’s called the Holodomor.
Stalin’s officials denied it was happening, even as people collapsed in the streets.
In the late 1950s, Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong’s policies in China led to a famine that killed between 15 and 45 million people.
The Chinese government called it “three years of natural disasters.” They said it’s impossible for them to be at fault.
In the 1980s and beyond, as famines swept through Ethiopia, Somalia, and other parts of Africa, much of the world looked away. We treated African hunger like it was just the way things were, instead of recognizing how wars and politics created these crises.
Each time, people in power said the hunger wasn’t real, wasn’t that bad, or wasn’t their fault. Each time, people died while the world debated.
Are we seriously going to accept Netanyahu’s Stalin-grade, Mao-height lie that there is no famine?
We seem to have gotten to the moment when even our reality-challenged, narcissist President seems to have noticed. Never of course admitting he's abetting the problem. Never again?
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