Listen up, world—today’s truth is dropping like a battering ram, and it’s gonna shake the walls of polite conversation. If you’re sipping herbal tea and craving safe spaces, now’s a good time to click away. The adults are talking.
Over the weekend, the good folks tucked away in their skyscraper offices at the UN decided to do what they do best: issue righteous declarations. And what a firecracker they lit. Michael Fakhri, the UN’s special rapporteur on the right to food, ripped the band-aid off the Gaza crisis and straight-up declared it: Israel is using starvation as a weapon against civilians—yes, you read that right—and America, that shiny self-proclaimed “city on a hill,” is complicit in it.
Not supporting it. Not turning a blind eye. Complicit.
Now, for those at home keeping score, “complicit” isn’t some soft, squishy word you toss around at brunch. It means if Israel is loading the weapon, America is standing there handing over the ammo and giving a thumbs-up. Fakhri wasn’t mincing words. He called what’s happening a “textbook case of genocide” and accused Israel of deliberately inflicting destruction on Palestinian lives—through bombs, bullets, and, yes, the slow agony of starvation.
And where’s the U.S. while all this unfolds? Writing Israel a blank check filled with weapons, political cover, and PR spin so thick you’d need a chainsaw to cut through it.
Folks, I’ve said it before and I’ll scream it from the mountaintops again: Empires don’t run on hope and change. They run on dominance—and when dominance falters, the mask slips. You send bombs with one hand and humanitarian aid with the other, and you call it even. Cute trick. It’s like burning someone’s house down and tossing them a bucket of water mid-fire, then patting yourself on the back for “supporting recovery efforts.”
Here’s the headline America doesn’t want flashing in Times Square: when you bankroll a war machine and it turns famine into a weapon, guess what? You own it. You don’t get to pretend you’re the referee when you paid for the gloves, the ring, and the referee’s whistle.
But powerful nations never confess. They deflect. Cue the State Department talking heads spinning tripe about “Israel’s right to defend itself”—as if phosphorous bombs demolishing hospitals are a “defense tactic” any mother can nod along to while tucking in her children at night.
Meanwhile, Gaza rots. More than half the population faces “catastrophic levels of food insecurity,” according to the UN. Translation: people are dying of hunger while the same White House that cries crocodile tears over democracy issues a weapons package with a side of double-speak.
Ladies and gentlemen, the game’s on—and it’s called “Starve Them Out.” The players wear different jerseys, but the league commissioner is sitting in Washington, smiling for cameras.
Does the administration care? Not really. Let’s not kid ourselves. Dead kids don’t vote. And in an election season where every microphone is a lie detector test, the script is already written: “We stand for peace, security, and our democratic allies.” Gloss over the genocide, and if someone brings it up, mumble about “unintended consequences.”
I’ll say it straight: If starvation is being used as a weapon—and if the U.S. is knowingly fueling the effort—then America isn’t just complicit. It’s a co-author.
The truth hurts. It’s supposed to.
If you can’t handle the heat, step out of the arena.
– Mr. 47
