The well-documented rising starvation in Gaza is now acknowledged by nearly the entire world, yet Israel continues to peddles the lie that it's all a Hamas conspiracy
When Umberto Eco came up with the 14 characteristics of fascism, he devoted No. 8 to the way a state presents its enemy. According to the Italian philosopher, in a fascist state "the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak." This past Sunday, when Benjamin Netanyahu held a press conference for foreign media outlets, he illustrated Eco's definition perfectly. According to the prime minister, Hamas is a battered organization that's been crushed by the Israel Defense Forces – while at the same time it has managed to carry out a worldwide scam, with thousands of extras, and has fabricated a situation of mass starvation in the Gaza Strip. Just like that, out of thin air. "Every massacre of the Jewish people was preceded by massive vilification," Netanyahu explained. "Today the Jewish state is being maligned in a similar way."
A couple of days later, the IDF joined the campaign. The army's spokespeople stated that "there are no signs indicating a widespread phenomenon of malnutrition in Gaza," and offered the following explanations: There's a gap between the number of starvation-related deaths reported and "the cases that were published with full identities in the media and on social media"; a surge in such deaths that, they said, points to an ostensibly manipulated "upward trend"; and an examination that found most of those who died of hunger had preexisting medical conditions (the army even detailed the medical histories of two of the dead).
