“If you ask people who study the topic, they will tell you that a modern famine is a man-made disaster. Natural disasters can play a part. For example, flooding and drought can destroy crops, but relief agencies and wealthy governments can now get aid where it needs to go. So it is ultimately war and political will that keeps enough food from being grown or delivered in places like Ethiopia and Somalia, Sudan and Yemen, Haiti and North Korea and, of course, now in Gaza.”
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@aral Man-made famine has been used as a weapon of war for centuries - William the Conquerer did it in Northern England in 1069-70, the English did it in Ireland during the Nine Years' War c. 1600, Churchill did it in Bengal in 1943, Nazi Germany did it in Poland.
The Israeli government is following an age old practice, aided and abetted by those who were as guilty of the same practices in the past.
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