The Unmasking: Famine in Gaza and the Collapse of Denial

“The rulers of every nation on earth now hold a formal letter from the United Nations stating unequivocally that Israel is deliberately manufacturing famine in the Gaza Strip. This is not a tragic side effect of a messy war. It is not negligence or forgetfulness. It is a calculated, meticulously planned, and ruthlessly executed effort to exterminate an ethnic group by depriving its members of the very sustenance of life”, writes CIDOB’s Non-resident Senior Fellow Francis Ghilès for Arab Digest. “The world watches, shell-shocked and sleepless, as our collective humanity is put on pause. How can one enjoy the simple pleasures of life while witnessing a live-streamed genocide? We are all haunted, our normalcy shattered by the relentless horror. And yet, the dam of impunity is breaking. This massive, two-year investment in censorship, intimidation, and propaganda is failing. We are seeing the cracks emerge in the very foundations of the Western power structure that enabled this catastrophe.”