Gaza’s supposed famine never happened. It was never more than Hamas propaganda eagerly consumed by the left, the media and the clueless Biden administration.
The chief UN food-insecurity agency announced this month that it finds the analysis suggesting a famine was on the way wasn’t “plausible” and lacked “supporting evidence.”
It turns out that the numbers from the Famine Early Warning System (a USAID project) were utter garbage: That analysis excluded all private-sector food deliveries, and a big chunk of aid from the World Food Programme.
So it “found” that less than half of Gazan’s daily caloric needs being met, while the actual numbers indicate that as much as 157% of caloric needs were being met.
This doesn’t mean that hunger is no issue at all, or that people don’t have trouble getting enough to eat: It’s a war zone, after all, and Hamas routinely grabs relief exclusively for its own private stocks.
But blaming Israel’s war on Hamas for causing famine is just another of the many specious charges leveled against Israel by the United Nations and International Criminal Court prosecutors — and echoed in The New York Times and other pro-Hamas outlets.
Not that you’d know the famine threat is fake from the resounding silence in the media or among the self-appointed Twitter martyrs for the Palestinian cause.
Where are the cheers and sighs of relief from the Times?
Of course, President Biden (and his minions) also echoed the lie as he sought to show he “cares” in order to appease the “When Jews defend themselves it’s genocide” crowd.
Which raises the question of why the USAID-backed network cooked the books to suggest famine was coming.
And of why so many “news” organizations swallowed it hook, line and sinker.
It’s rank media bias: An “honest mistake” by reporters and editors eager to paint the Jewish state as monstrous, to buy propaganda slamming Israel’s allegedly cruel restriction of food-aid entry into Gaza.
Again, any such blockage of food aid was thanks to theft by Hamas.
The Biden team’s unseriosness and incompetence here is summed up by the emergency pier the prez demanded in his State of the Union speech, which took months to construct, almost instantly began to fall apart and is about to be decommissioned after managing to unload only a bare pittance of aid — all of it apparently seized by the terrorists.
So when the media’s terror-lovers next begin to scream about some supposed Israeli atrocity — don’t worry, it won’t be long — remember their utter silence about this tremendous piece of good news.
And understand that the shouters don’t love Palestinians, they simply hate Jews.