The Starvation: Israel’s Greatest Crime

They say we are starving Gaza.

The headlines say it. The protest signs scream it. Governments repeat it. The so-called human rights organisations declare it as fact. The accusation has gone global.

But the truth is darker.

Yes—we have sent aid.
Yes—we have allowed food, fuel, water, and medicine to pour into Gaza.

And that is the scandal.

That is the crime.

We have gone to war—righteously, justly—after the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. And what have we done in response?
We fed the enemy. We nourished them. We sustained them. We kept them alive.

We risked our own soldiers—our own brave, sacred boys—so that the people who cheered their deaths, who pray for the annihilation of our country, could have groceries. So they could cook rice and refill their gas tanks.

Why?

Did they feed our hostages?
Did they release a single one out of decency?
Did they offer medicine, a blanket, or a sip of water to the children they dragged into tunnels?

No.

There has not been a single act—not one—of human decency from Gaza since the day of its founding. Not a gesture. Not a signal. Not a sign of remorse or repentance.

And yet we claim the mantle of morality.

We call ourselves “the good side” because we keep alive the very regime that raped and burnt its way through our cities.

We assure the world we are not monsters—not because we crushed evil, but because we carried food into its lair.

That is not morality.

That is self-destruction.

We cry out, “We are merciful! We are moral! We do not starve civilians!”

But here’s the deeper point:

Any plea that you are not guilty of that which you are innocent of—any so-called act of virtue done to prove your moral worth—is itself suspicious. It’s not a defence. It’s an indictment. The moment you feel the need to say “I am not a monster” in response to a lie, you’ve already accepted the moral framework of your accuser.

And that is exactly what Israel has done.

We are sending in food and fuel that we know are used by the Palestinian armed groups. We are keeping them alive—literally, tactically—while they kill our soldiers. That’s not morality. That’s insanity. And the fact that we do it proudly and publicly is damning. The very act of doing it calls our sanity—and our morality—into question.

The proper moral stance would have been simple:

You committed October 7th.
You butchered our children.
You took our people hostage.
You either surrender unconditionally, return them all—
Or you starve.

That is not cruelty. That is civilisation defending itself.

Instead, Israel has chosen a contradiction:

A war that is not a war.
An enemy that is and isn’t.
A “moral” pose that feeds the enemy while mourning our own dead.
And yes—the world is right to be outraged by this.
But not for the reasons they think.

It is outrageous.
Not because we are starving Gaza.
But because we are starving ourselves of victory.

Because in truth, Israel is not a nation acting from moral strength.
It is a state trapped in a form of national narcissism.
Not the narcissism of arrogance—but of insecurity. The need to be loved. The obsession with image.

We want to be seen as good more than we want to be good.
We want the photo op. The headline. The humanitarian applause.

But to be good sometimes means to be hated.
To be good sometimes means to kill those who want to kill you.
To be good sometimes means to suffer in silence because your justice will not be recognised—only achieved.

We have forgotten this.

And so Eylon Levy rushes to the Gazan border—not to demand justice, not to defend the murdered—but to proudly showcase the number of food trucks we’ve sent into enemy territory. As if that were a triumph.

Former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, now a private citizen, creates elaborate AI-powered videos in dozens of languages—pleading with the world, with “logic” and graphics and soft lighting, to believe we are moral.

Channel 12, one of our most watched news outlets, repeats lies lifted straight from Al Jazeera—claiming food prices in Gaza are sky-high, that the people are starving, and that we are to blame. Lies, manufactured for one purpose: to make the Jew look cruel, and the terrorist look hungry.

We have become our own prosecutors.

This is not public diplomacy.
This is moral suicide.
This is the true face of what hasbara has become.

In our fear of being called monsters, we perform morality like theatre.
We dress up our weakness as compassion, our appeasement as virtue.

But the world is not stupid.
They see the contradiction.
And they despise us not because we are too strong, but because we are too false.

Who respects the man who cannot defend himself?
Who loves the one who does not love himself?
We beg to be called good by people who cheer our death.

And we wonder why they never clap.
Because nothing is more contemptible than a people who will not defend their right to exist.

That is Israel’s moral crime.

It does not starve Gaza.
It starves its own children—of safety, of justice, of peace.
That is Israel’s moral crime.

(Read "The Moral Collapse of Hasbara" to learn more about how Israel's attempts to defend itself morally failed.)

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