"Starving Gaza": Al Jazeera Film Shows U.S. Keeps Arming Israel as It Uses Hunger as a Weapon of War

[Uncle Joe]

A deliberate, man-made famine is underway in Gaza, according to many human rights experts. Starving Gaza is a new documentary by Al Jazeera English's Fault Lines investigating how Israel has killed civilians seeking aid and attacked humanitarian networks. The harrowing film is based on the work of Palestinian reporters in Gaza who are suffering the same conditions as their subjects. "They've been displaced, they've been injured, they've watched their own children die in front of them, and yet they somehow conjure the professionalism to pick up a camera and record and tell other people's trauma," says journalist Hind Hassan. "They really will be remembered in history as the titans of journalists."

Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET.

[Mosby]

1. Al Jazeera and Democracy Now are propaganda.

Just saying.

[Gaugamela]

2. Name calling is all you got, huh? Actually, this reminds me of junior high when

the teacher calls on the kid who didn’t read the assignment.

[Uncle Joe]

3. Along with the United Nations and all the humanitarian organizations which they cite?

Netanyahu's government has not allowed the world's journalists to enter and cover Gaza to give testimony or witness as to what's happening there.

The career state department officials which have resigned after decades of service didn't do so as a means of propaganda, but conscious.

[Oopsie Daisy]

4. You are correct. Democracy Now! are apologists for for Hamas and Hezbollah.

They are a "news" organization that defends terrorists; fails to call them what they are; and ignores the fact that both call for the destruction of Israel and Jews. Their one-sided "reporting" and not-so-subtle dog whistling clearly reveals their antisemitism every single day.

I forget who it was, but once someone wagered/challenged me to point out the antisemitism of Democracy Now! At the time I chuckled out loud (literally) because of the absurdity of such a challenge. Sadly, their antisemitism is so obvious. I can only presume that anyone making such a wager is delusional, or are engaged in gaslighting by pretending that Democracy Now! is just as pure and honest as any other news organization. They're not.

It just amazes me that crap like this is allowed. The "Democracy Now!" motives are obvious. They are unproductive and harmful. They are an agenda-driven "news" organization that lacks credibility.

Propaganda outlets like "RT" (Russia Today) are banned and rightfully shunned because of their anti-American and anti-West misinformation. By the same token, DN (Democracy Now!) should be banished because of their anti-Democratic party rhetoric and propaganda, as well as their antisemitic agenda.

Everyone knows that Hamas is stealing food and aid meant to help the very civilians that HAMAS INTENTIONALLY PUTS IN HARMS WAY... as human shields, and for propaganda value.

It's no surprise at all that they both try to blame the US for a war that was started by Hamas and Hezbollah. Boo-hoo... Israel defends itself and civilians die because the terrorists hide among them; headquarter among them; store weapons among them; build bunkers beneath them.

Why are there no bomb shelters in Gaza? Miles and miles of tunnels can be built for the terrorists, but nothing at all is built for civilians.

Why is there no running water in Gaza? Because all of the water pipes have been dug up by the terrorists in order to make bombs/missiles and other weapons.

[Intractable]

7. They have their points of view. You have a different one.

If you say you do not support Netanyahu, but support his policies, you are still supporting Netanyahu.

[Mosby]

10. So what?

I support Israel, if you or anyone interprets that as support for Bibi that's on you. Full stop.

[Intractable]

11. I stand by what I said.

No need for me to repeat it, because nothing you said refutes it.

[moniss]

5. Some people around the world want to pretend that

the pictures of children dead from starvation don't exist. This little girl in red is from June. Some people think it must be her own fault she got this way, or her parent's fault or anybody's fault but their own. Sure someone else must have done this to her because it certainly wouldn't be the righteous. Israel has a right to defend itself but it does not have a right to do this in the process. But of course to some around the world it's all a fairy tale or someone else's fault. My goodness the Western media sure loves showing pictures of missiles flying in the night, explosions from a distance but they just don't seem very interested in pictures like this. There's plenty more too and also in the hellhole of Yemen.

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[Mosby]

6. She has cancer

Link to tweet

[moniss]

8. Also a severe lack of nutrition

and as I said there are plenty of other photos.

[moniss]

9. Are these more acceptable on the

subject?