Consortium News: 30-05-2025,
In Five Easy Steps: The danger in an age of social media is that images of starving babies will make you look very bad. Hold firm. The Western media will come to the rescue.
Israeli airstrikes hitting Gaza, Oct. 7, 2023. (Ali Hamad of
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By Jonathan Cook
Jonathan-Cook.net
A short guide on how to engineer a genocide by starvation and ethnic cleansing:
One: Choose your moment. Ok, you’ve been ethnically cleansing, occupying, oppressing and killing your neighbours for decades. The international courts have ruled your actions illegal.
But none of that will matter the moment your neighbours retaliate by attacking you. Don’t worry. The Western media can be relied on to help out here. They will be only too ready to pretend that history began on the day you were attacked.
Two: Declare, in response, your intention to starve your neighbours, treating them as “human animals,” by blocking all food, water and power. You will be surprised by how many Western politicians are ready to support this as your “right to defend yourself.”
The media will echo them. Important not to just talk about blocking aid. You must actually do it. There will be no serious pushback for many, many months.
Israelis at the Kerem Shalom crossing blocking humanitarian aid from entering Gaza,