{"id":302407,"date":"2025-09-08T12:00:50","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T11:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=302407"},"modified":"2025-09-03T05:40:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T04:40:10","slug":"how-to-stop-israel-from-starving-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/09\/how-to-stop-israel-from-starving-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Stop Israel from Starving Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"

Israel has crossed the clear line into the darkest crimes.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

1 Sep 2025 –<\/em> Israel, with US complicity, is committing genocide in Gaza through the mass starvation of the population as well as direct mass murders and the physical destruction of Gaza\u2019s infrastructure. Israel does the dirty work.\u00a0 The US Government funds it and provides diplomatic cover through its UN veto.\u00a0 Palantir, through \u201cLavendar<\/a>,\u201d provides the AI for efficient mass murder. Microsoft, through Azure cloud services, and Google and Amazon \u00a0through the \u201cNimbus<\/a>\u201d initiative, supply core tech infrastructure for the Israeli army.<\/p>\n

This marks 21st<\/sup>-century war crimes as an Israel-US public-private partnership.\u00a0 Israel\u2019s mass starvation of the people of Gaza has been confirmed by the\u00a0United Nations<\/a>,\u00a0Amnesty International<\/a>,\u00a0Red Cross,\u00a0Save the Children<\/a>\u00a0and many others. The\u00a0Norwegian Refugee Council<\/a>, along with 100 organizations, have been calling for an end to Israel\u2019s weaponization of food relief.\u00a0 This is the\u00a0first time<\/a>\u00a0that mass starvation has been officially confirmed in the Middle East.<\/p>\n

The scale of the starvation is staggering. Israel is systematically depriving food to more than 2 million people. Over\u00a0half a million<\/a>\u00a0Palestinians face catastrophic hunger and at least\u00a0132,000 children<\/a>\u00a0aged under five are at risk of death from acute malnutrition. The scale of the horror is thoroughly documented by\u00a0Haaretz<\/a>\u00a0in a recent article entitled \u201cStarvation is Everywhere.\u201d Those who are able to somehow access food distribution sites are\u00a0routinely fired on<\/a>\u00a0by the Israeli army.<\/p>\n

As a former US ambassador to Israel\u00a0has recently explained<\/a>, the intention to starve the population has been present from the start.\u00a0 Israel\u2019s Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu recently declared, \u201cthere is no nation that feeds its enemies.\u201d \u00a0Minister Bezalel Smotrich recently stated, \u201cwhoever doesn\u2019t evacuate, don\u2019t let them. No water, no electricity; they can die of hunger or surrender. This is what we want.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yet despite these glaring declarations of genocide, US representatives at the UN repeatedly deny the facts and cover for Israel\u2019s war crimes. The US alone\u00a0vetoed<\/a>\u00a0Palestine\u2019s admission to the UN in 2024.\u00a0 The US now denies visas to Palestinian leaders to come to the UN in September, yet another violation of international law.<\/p>\n

The US has used its power and especially its veto in the UN Security Council to abet Israel\u2019s genocide of the Palestinians and to block even the most basic humanitarian responses.\u00a0 The world is aghast but seems paralyzed before the the Israel-US murder machine.\u00a0 Yet the world can act, even in the face of US intransigence.\u00a0 The US will stand naked and alone in its criminal complicity with Israel.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s be clear.\u00a0 The overwhelming voice of humanity is on the side of the people of Palestine.\u00a0 Last December,\u00a0172 countries<\/a>, with more than 90 percent of the world population, voted to support Palestine\u2019s right to\u00a0self-determination<\/a>.\u00a0 Israel and the US were essentially isolated in their opposition.\u00a0 Similar overwhelming majorities are repeatedly expressed on behalf of Palestine and against the actions of Israel.<\/p>\n

Israel\u2019s thuggish government now counts solely on US support, but even that may not be there for long.\u00a0 Despite Trump\u2019s intransigence and US government attempts to stifle pro-Palestinian voices,\u00a058% of Americans<\/a>\u00a0want the UN to recognize the State of Palestine, compared to only 33% who do not. Moreover,\u00a060% of Americans<\/a>\u00a0oppose Israel\u2019s actions in Gaza.<\/p>\n

Here are practical steps that the world can take.<\/p>\n

First, T\u00fcrkiye has set the\u00a0correct course<\/a>\u00a0by ending all economic, trade, shipping, and air links with Israel. Israel is currently a rogue state, and T\u00fcrkiye is right to treat it as such until Israeli-created mass starvation ends, and a State of Palestine is admitted to the UN as the 194th member, with the borders of June 4, 1967.\u00a0 Other states should immediately follow T\u00fcrkiye\u2019s lead.<\/p>\n

Second, all UN member states that have not yet done so should recognize the State of Palestine.\u00a0 So far,\u00a0147 countries<\/a>\u00a0recognize Palestine.\u00a0 Dozens more should do so at the UN Summit on Palestine on September 22, even over the vociferous objections of the US.<\/p>\n

Third, the Arab signatories to the Abraham Accords, Bahrain, Morocco, Sudan, and the UAE, should suspend their diplomatic relations with Israel until the Gaza siege ends and the State of Palestine is admitted to the UN.<\/p>\n

Fourth, the UN General Assembly, by a vote of two-thirds present and voting, should suspend Israel from the UN General Assembly until it lifts its murderous siege on Gaza, based on the precedent of\u00a0suspending South Africa<\/a>\u00a0during its Apartheid regime.\u00a0 The US has no veto in the UN General Assembly.<\/p>\n

Fifth, UN member states should stop the export of all technology services that support the war, until the siege of Gaza ends and Palestine\u2019s membership in the UN is adopted by the UN Security Council.\u00a0 Consumer companies such as Amazon and Microsoft that persist in aiding the Israel Defence Forces in the context of a genocide should face the wrath of consumers worldwide.<\/p>\n

Sixth, the UN General Assembly should dispatch a UN Protection Force to Gaza and the West Bank. Typically, it would be the UN Security Council that mandates a protection force, but in this case, the US will block the Security Council with its veto.\u00a0 There is another way.<\/p>\n

Under the \u201cUniting for Peace<\/a>\u201d mechanism, when the Security Council is deadlocked, the authority to act passes to the General Assembly. After a Security Council session and the almost inevitable US veto, the issue would be brought before the UNGA in a resumed 10th emergency special session on the Israel-Palestine conflict.\u00a0 There, the General Assembly can, by a two-thirds majority not subject to US veto, authorize a\u00a0protection force<\/a>\u00a0in response to an urgent request from the State of Palestine.\u00a0 There is a precedent: in 1956, the\u00a0General Assembly authorized the UN Emergency Force (UNEF)<\/a>\u00a0to enter Egypt and protect it from the ongoing invasion by Israel, France, and the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n

At the invitation of Palestine, the protection force would enter Gaza to secure emergency humanitarian aid for the starving population. If Israel were to attack the UN protection force, the force would be authorized to defend itself and the Gazans. Whether Israel and the US would dare to fight a UNGA-mandated force protecting the starving Gazans remains to be seen.<\/p>\n

Israel has crossed the clear line into the darkest crimes \u2014 starving civilians to death and shooting them as they line up, emaciated, for food. There is no further line to cross, nor time to lose. The family of nations is being tested and summoned to action as it has not been in decades.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a> Jeffrey D. Sachs, Professor of Sustainable Development and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University, is Director of Columbia\u2019s Center for Sustainable Development and the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. He has served as Special Adviser to three UN Secretaries-General [Kofi Annan (2001-7), Ban Ki-moon (2008-16), and currently serves as an SDG Advocate under Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres. His books include <\/em>The End of Poverty<\/a>, Common Wealth<\/a>, The Age of Sustainable Development<\/a>, Building the New American Economy<\/a>, and most recently,<\/em> A New Foreign Policy: Beyond American Exceptionalism<\/a>. Sachs was also an advisor to the last leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, as well as to the first president of the Russian Federation, Boris Yeltsin.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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