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In reply to the discussion: Children are starving in Gaza. [View all]Beastly Boy
(12,208 posts)81. Yes, they also hoarded food and taxed it to, literally, death.
For a million kids. Those missiles and tunnels are pretty expensive, you know. Not to mention the lifestyles of their leaders in Doha.
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"Since Trump is in the area, why doesn't he work to get food to these starving children? "
Johnny2X2X
Yesterday
#2
The kids will have to get by with just 2 dolls from now on. Food, shelter, and medical care are unneeded luxuries.
Ping Tung
Yesterday
#15
Sad and also sad that DU still has apologists for Israeli behavior in Gaza. /nt
artemisia1
Yesterday
#16
Yes, but curiously, they seem to stay away form the Iraelis starvig the Gazans posts...
brush
Yesterday
#29
Do you or anyone have anything besides anecdotal evidence for this starvation claim?
Mosby
Yesterday
#36
It always amazes me that there are those that take the word of HAMAs as the gospel,
MarineCombatEngineer
Yesterday
#46
No, this is data collected by international experts on famine, including UN bodies
muriel_volestrangler
Yesterday
#52
How much weight do you think these starving children lost in the past three and a half months?
Beastly Boy
Yesterday
#49
Still can't or won't distinguish between Hamas militants and civilians - or starving kids, for that matter.
AloeVera
20 hrs ago
#75
Sure I can. I can also tell what their hefty weight has to do with the starving children.
Beastly Boy
19 hrs ago
#78
Spare me. You are impervious to reality. Hamas has controlled the food and energy markets in Gaza since at least
Beastly Boy
17 hrs ago
#87
Only the UN, NGOs, Western doctors that have returned from Gaza, some Western media..
AloeVera
Yesterday
#40
Not an excuse any longer and no one believes BB or his homies. If an NGO shows Hamas caused the ...
uponit7771
21 hrs ago
#70
The USA and other western countries are not arming either the Sudan government or the RSF
muriel_volestrangler
Yesterday
#44
I'm not a US citizen for that matter - I'm British, though this is of course an American website
muriel_volestrangler
Yesterday
#57
I think their government started a war they knew they were going to lose....
EX500rider
22 hrs ago
#66
But what do you think about deliberately blockimg food from starving people?
AloeVera
21 hrs ago
#68
We can walk and chew gum at same time, this issue we have more control over and ditect input
uponit7771
21 hrs ago
#71