The same is true of its efforts to back up the claim that Israel is deliberately starving Gazans since the war began—another of the main planks in the attempt to justify the use of the term “genocide” to describe Israeli tactics.
A Times article published days before its report on Israeli rules of engagement provided some interesting details about the delivery of food to Gaza. Contrary to the claims that Israel is preventing humanitarian aid from reaching the coastal enclave, the Times confirmed Israel’s arguments that the fault lies with the Palestinians rather than its actions, albeit while framing it in the most negative manner possible.
As the newspaper told its readers, the primary obstacle to getting food to Gazans is Palestinian.
Hamas has been brazenly stealing aid intended for civilians and reserving it for its own use, with some of the thefts caught on film. Those shipments that were not taken by the terrorists who ruled Gaza before Oct. 7 are now being stolen by criminal gangs that operate in areas where Hamas is no longer active.
This is happening because the United Nations and its aid agencies have systematically refused to allow the IDF to guard the route and trucks through which food is distributed. That is why as many as 800 truckloads of food remain at a standstill in Israel at any given time since the various international aid agencies are afraid to send them into Gaza. The only secure route for food delivery is the one that Israel has supervised along the route from Egypt into Gaza.
So, again, the mainstream Western media that is hostile to Israel is providing reporting that gives the lie to the genocide narrative. This means that much of the ammunition that Israel’s defenders need to refute what amounts to a modern blood libel is being offered up by media sources whose coverage is consistently skewed against the Jewish state.
There is no genocide happening in Gaza. The war that Hamas started and continues to fight by refusing to free the Israeli hostages it took from their homes and a young person’s musical festival on Oct. 7 has indeed also taken many Palestinian lives. But about half of the fatalities have been Hamas fighters and operatives, and many of the civilians were those directly connected to them. Israel’s goal has been to defeat and destroy Hamas, not the Palestinians as a whole—who, even if you believe the terrorists’ statistics, have lost only a tiny percentage of the 2.1 million people believed to be in Gaza before Oct. 7.
To believe the genocide charge, every war in history must be labeled as a genocide. That drains a word coined to describe the Holocaust of any real meaning. That doesn’t even take into account that the explicitly stated goal of Hamas is the destruction of Israel and its population—the Oct. 7 atrocities were merely a trailer for what it wanted to do to the rest of the Jewish state.
