UN: Almost half of Palestinians in Gaza, W. Bank are food insecure

There is an old saying. "When you lay down with dogs you wake up with fleas". Who voted for hamas in Gaza? Who is digging tunnels to smuggle in weapons? Are they bringing in food through these tunnels? I am tired of the bullshit that it is Israel's fault for the economic crisis in Gaza. I don't see any 'Care packages' arriving in Gaza from the bashers posting on this site. Just a lot of Israel bashing and whining.

Oohps! Haaretz is funny... Another article today discusses the lovely Palestinian cuisine. In years of following the Arab-Israeli conflict we have not seen one Arab starved by Israel. This article is just simplistic propaganda... food for the crying neo-progressives to consume. BTW, the so-called palestinians eat Arabic food, just as they speak Arabic language and practice the Arabic religion. In fact, they are Arabs. Their homeland is the Arabian Peninsula, which they pray towards five times each day. These Arab colonialists are unhappy now that the indigenous people are in charge again. The Arabs should be allowed to return to their countries of origin if they are unwilling to live here in peace.

corruption and funds diverted to foreign banks, elites pockets and bombs.

It's the Pali leaders that are denying them of food. They prefer to spend their money on guns and explosives. It's Macho!..You really should look into UNWRA's food program. They've been feeding them for nigh onto 60 years. Oddly enough, the Pali youth have enough strength & food to lift heavy rocks and throw them at Israeli jeeps and soldiers.

Access to food is one of the most fundimental rights of populations caught under conflict. I am amazed that anyone would deny food to any population- anywhere. Even prisoners who have committed henious crimes have the right to food..the majourity of Palestinians (half of whom are children) have done nothing. Without food, jobs and political hope more and more Palestinains will turn to weapons. Without dignity there will never be security.

It's no quibbling over a few dollars. It's just a matter of not misleading and trying to make the sum much larger than it actually is, by a factor of about FIVE. The settlers were induced to move out, they accepted because they had no choice. Now, they're forced to relocate and the government promised compensation wasn't a donation. Your statement that you know "Many Israeli Families" is tantamount to people that claim "Some of my best friends are Jews" and then proceed to denigrate Jews & Judaism. Decent dwellings don't mean just a roof over their heads, it really wasn't meant to replace what they left behind. Forget about Herzliya, try buying an apartment in Kfar Sava, a far less prestigous are, with an equivalent amount of rooms & space. The cost will astound you. $350 K is bupkis.

Since we are quibbling let's agree that it is about $350K (per person? per family?) at today's exchange rate. Still not bad - you can get decent dwelling in lots of places in Israel for that price (OK not in Herzeliya, may be or Savion). I know many Israeli families who have little hope of buying their own place would love this kind of donation. The issue is why do settlers deserve it any more than, say, palestinians who have also been expelled from homes near the fence and who have done absolutely nothing wrong or criminal in their lives? or how about other Israelis who were settled in places that turned out to be lousy to make a livelihood? If you are talking about the poor in the US, please compare them to the poor in Israel. The fact is - there are 100's of thousands of palestinians who would love to have that minimum that even the worst off homeless or working poor get in Israel or the US. Living on $2/day is not acceptable and shouldn't be. But hey, some Jews like it this way...

democracy.

Bloggers have turned information intended to educate the public on healh issues arising in the territories into another petty bipartisan conflict; I refrain from using the term 'race' for the obvious reasons. This commentary treats a humanitarian issue. On another note, it is ignorant to fault children for their socialization; there are many complex social, ethnic, cultural, demographic and economic variables linked to socialization. The health of human beings is a humanitarian issue that needs to be put on some agenda to find solutions. Pretending a problem does not exist does not make it go away. Nor do glib, sarcastic oneliners bring anything tangible or truly helpful to the table. I figure that it must be hard to formulate a critical, informed analysis of the issues from those with fragile egos to placate...

Paul Harris, Israel is directly responsible for the deteriorating living conditions of the Palestinian people as it has made their ordinary lives impossible with their checkpoints; barriers travel restrictions and now with its economic boycott. You would do well to remember in our just & moral societies the interests of one group of people does not take preference over the rights and interest of another group of people. This is a fundamental principle and it was this principle that led the ICJ to rule on the illegality of Israel's fence too. I can't understand why you as a man of the law seem to forget this. Thus Israeli officials have no right to block the way of the Pale- stinian people to promote the safety of Israelis or indeed their illegal settlers. How atrocious---protecting the outlaws at the expense of the indigenous people. What twisted thinking! They should follow the example of Security officials all over the world who regulate all kinds of different people daily and never resort to blocking anyone's way let alone isolating them! Dutch

in Dollars that's equivalent to about $300 K, stop trying to make it sound likes it's in dollars. in the states that would at best buy a MODEST home. In Israel that's barely enough to buy an apartment. That 1.5K is representative of only a partial value of the homes they were forced from. I'm certain you've seen people in the NY supermarkets, buying food with food stamps, people sleeping on subway grates trying to keep warm, going to public hospitals because they can't afford to pay for private care.. Been down to the Bowery recently?

Your own compassion is non-existent. Here you have a neighbor, East Timor, that had over 200,000 Christians, 1/3 of E. Timore's population was SLAUGHTERED by Muslim INDONESIA, and you haven't shed a tear or even mentioned it. This goes along with your lack of concern for the Aussie Muslim Rape Gangs that are pursuing innocent Aussie girls. Not, to mention, the lousy conditions that your own Aboriginies are existing under. Maureen, you're an out & out faker. A bit of details regarding E.Timor follow, for the education you're sorely lacking. Hypocrisy, you have in abundance. --------------------------------------------- Indonesia's genocide in East Timor East Timor is half of an island about three hundred miles north of Australia. Once part of Portugal's empire, East Timor was forcibly annexed by Indonesia in 1975. Between 1975 and 1999, when East Timor regained its independence, the primarily Muslim Indonesia engaged in brutal warfare against the primarily Catholic East Timorese, killing one third of the populat

Nope, you don't know the difference. Jews went to the extermination camps & gas chambers. Zionists, defend themselves, vowing "NEVER AGAIN" to experience what their own extermination.

Demise, my foot. Their population is bigger than it ever was. Sitting around, eating their heads off, making lots of babies, complaining & rioting all the time. If they weren't so treacherous and dangerous they could have gainful employment in Israel. However, they decided they want to blow Israeli's up, so they've been isolated because of their actions. Now, Israel has seem fit to import non-hostile foreigners, as opposed to hostile Palestinian's. The non-hostile are content to earn a wage and don't present a threat of any sort. Now, if you were the employer, would your employ a housekeeper or any employee who you thought would steal from you or try to burn your house down? I think not. As a pet owner, I wouldn't keep any that attacked or growled at me.

Dear Noble Haaretz: Israel's economic embargo against the Palestinian people has become unconscionable and I am absolutely horrified by the way it is contributing to the mass destruction of the Palestinian people and their way of life. Man is a roaming creature like all others and he must forge for his food and trade his goods to grow and thrive. Thus to block his way or to engage in other practices such as an economic embargo that harms his ability and his peoples ability to pro- vide for themselves is cruel and inhumane and I believe in this case constitutes crimes against humanity too. Thus I am holding Israeli officials accountability for causing the mass demise of the Palestinian people and I condemn the EU and US officials for support this economic embargo. Israelis are the last people on earth who should be oppressing and regulating other people in this racist like fashion. It shames both the victims of the Holocaust & the very creation of the state itself. Yours Truly, Dutch

Israel has given more food to the so called starving Palestinians,than the rest of the world put together. The rest of the world has given money,which has been used to purchase arms and sometimes food. So please all you misinformed out there,get your information right for a change and forget about your anti Israel feelings,they seem to fog your minds.

DANA, IN ACOUNTRY OF FOOD STAMPS AND LACK OF MEDICAL CARE I WOULD LOOK INWARDS BEFORE LOKKING OUTWARDS

So much money is given to the Palestinians by the US, the UN, The EU other arab countries, etc. What are they doing with it.????? Unfortunately it all goes to kill Israelis. Too bad that they dont have a normal system of who controls the funds. They have only themselves to blame because their leaders are naturally just out for themselves. The world should do a full accounting of all of the donations it has given & then cut the money off immediately..That money only goes to support terror and enrich the lives of their corrupt leaders.. EVEN BETTER they need to arrest Suha Arafat & take back the Billions $$$$$ that Arafat their great leader (the pedophile who everyone knows died of aids since he had sex with little boys as well as his bodyguards) stole from his "beloved" palestinian nation who he "played" untill his dying day. Let them get the billions from Suha out of her big fat bank account in Paris....Take all of her money from her that she didnt earn and ...Let her go work at mcdonalds or something & earn a living the normal way. No one should give these people a dime and once we shut off the money from Iran hopefully that should put a big dent in the support of terror. ...then the money from saudi arabia is next. But I agree with # 1...let them eat their bullets , bombs and suicide belts if they are hungry.

AS USUAL THE BLAME FOR NEGLECT GOES TO ISRAEL INSTEAD OF THE "JET SETTING "ARAB LEADERS .

you Gabe! You are starved of the ability to have human compassion and empathy. Just remember, what goes around comes around. Nature has a way of handing out a reminder to us all, quite often when we least expect it. Peace.

Most of the young people (and some of the not so young) do not believe me when I point out how callous, uncaring and cruel some jewish people can be (emphasis on SOME). Luckily I now have visible proof in the form of this and a couple of other talkboards to illustrate what gutter-minded people are like. The great thing about haaretz talkboards is that it flushes out a type of mentality that most people don't see and when they do, prefer to avert their eyes. Had there been a Haaretz in Afganistan or in certain other muslim countries (I wish there was) we would be able to see what the Taliban-like mind frame is really like too. Pretty similar to the ones we read here, I'm sure. gabe1, Richard S., Miriam Davidowitcz, PETER SM, Bill B, SLAVO, Efox - Haters "Hall of Famers" for today. Please continue to bring it on - such good distilled stuff. I shall help make you famous - and make your words resonate the world over. Sent this article with your collated collections to some senators too.

I have heard the report: What it actually said is, that 45% of the palestinians are undernourished because of the embargoes. I forgot which prophet urged the israelites to kill even babes in the arms of their mothers if these are the children of their enemies. I am sure the embargoes are following his instructions religiously.

There are other Israeli English News publications and just about everyone who reads Haaretz, also reads them. You can post and specifically emphasize that Haaretz has censored you and everyone will know. Perhaps then, Haaretz will not censor you for the bad publicity. Do not assume censorship too quickly though, it sometimes takes awhile for Haaretz to filter through.

Able to sleep at night.I hope their god who gave them the status they claim is listening and watching.I now know the difference between Jew and zionist. One has a heart, the other has nothing at all of value.God forgive them.

In Africa among young kids left to fend for themselves by parents/family who died of AIDS, I saw more dignity, less anger, more willingness to do their share to improve their situation. The world is giving money for years to palestinians, everything ends up in the wrong hands. Suha is publicly spending the billions given to the palestinians, they ought to sue her to get back the money meant for them. The funds should be shared among palestinian families not given to inept governments. These funds could be placed to earn interest and they could live on it for generations. The truth remains that no group of refugees got more opportunities than them.

If they can find a way to smuggle in guns then surely they can find a way to smuggle in food. Now that is a stupid comment on my part and I agree 100%. What is more stupid is that if this is the case then the UN should get food ready and ask the Israelis to inspect it and then allow it into the region. I do not believe that Israel will stop the delivery of food and medicine as long as they know for sure it is food and medicine only.

I don't have a clue what you were trying to say. What do you mean I keep them on welfare? What have the settlers gor to do with the issue of "food insecurity". What the blazes are you talking about. I'm not sure you know yourself. I said that sparkling towers (??) have nothing to do with helping the down trodden in any city, it was such an inane analogy in the first place.

You living on stolen land down under mate.Morally bankrupt aren,t you.

It is Israeli's who get $10,500 per year in aid each from the US while Palestinians are granted less than $2 per day to subsist on. Africans receive $65 per person from the US while they die of aids. Go and grow a bloody heart somewhere.

... for you and your friends at masada2000.org Gabi and Yevette will be third party implicated!

"Israel is out of Gaza." It controls ALL exits and entry points, including (thru subterfuge) Rafah. It controls taxation. It controls the population registry. It controls all the land inside Gaza, because it has reserved to itself the right to send the IDF in on any pretext, and with the insistance that the PA security forces must not resist any such incursion. This adds up to "effective control", David, which means it is still the Occupying Power. "And it has a border with Egypt." Rafah is the only crossing, and Israel insists that the Rafah crossing can only be used for EXPORTS of goods, not IMPORTS. Israel has also kept Rafah almost entirely closed since Shalit was captured. "If the Arab world wants to support Palestinians starving in Gaza let them. It is no longer Israels responceablity." Rubbish. All imports must come in through crossings that border Israel, which means that Israel controls the importing of ALL goods. Not the Arabs. ISRAEL

Haaretz you prostitute yourselves all day every day to hungry people who love to hate Our Holy Land,our God and the Jewish Nation. The consequences of these poisonous talkbacks mean nothing to you.

Coz you are advocating collective punishment of an entire population because some of their leadership choose to resist. You are advocating a war crime, Gabe1, under both International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Law. Is that how you want Israel to be perceived, Gabe1? As a country whose leadership advocates war crimes against a population that it has at its mercy? Your attitude is barbaric, and yet you express outrage that the Palestinians might feel the need to resist the imposition of barbaric conditions upon them. Quite honestly, I despair of you zionists - one day the worm will turn, and the resentment and the hatred that Israel's policies have inflicted upon the Palestinians will wreak a terrible, terrible revenge. And you people will all be the 1st to express your horror, and you will understand nothing.

My advice to thePalestinins is: 1. Throw away your guns; 2. Stop making Bombs 3. Stop destroying; 4. Don't rely on UNRWA 5. Get rid of UNRWA 6. Start building 7. Get an education

1. Demand hugh sums of money from the Western powers and watch it disappear into corrupt leaders bank accounts. But say nothing about it. 2. Drive Jews from your presence even they are the only ones offering you a real job. 3. Blow up Jews so they have to stop you from entering Israel to earn real money 4. Destroy immediately all Gaza farms turned over to you by Jews 5. Spend every dollar you have on weapons and things to murder Jews with. 6. Embrace Hate as your salvation and purpose in life. Courtesy NICK

6 of my posts replying to the various Anti Semites have been gutted. We must not offend the German owners I Guess or you belive that crap about starving Balestinians.

My comment merely pointed out that sellers are genrally getting preferential treatment at the expense of Jews not just palestinians. I am sure that no settler goes hungry - 1.5 M the latest bribe to keep them fat. But many israelis do - but you Chanah will help them be on welfare. I realize that many could care less about anyone who doesn't instantly evacuate their land for them. But that's what mafia thugs have always been about. In no way am I suggesting that you are worse that the Sicilian mob families or, for that matter the sudan government. I mean, Israelis can't be all that bad - at least they are not treating the palestinians as if they were in darfur (I mean they may wish to, but too many are watching). Charming posters we have here.

I've noticed that today Haaretz has been extremely agressive at censoring non-Leftist opinions.

Or is he just politically correct and the so called third world can do no wrong and it is ALL somebody elses fault. How many people are food insecure in Zimbabwe? who cares? At least he has not yet called Mugabe a Mossad agent,a perfect cop out for inaction from the"new" South Africa.

The blockade wasn't a simple matter of economics. It's main purpose was preventive, to keep the homicide bombers contained, safely away from their potential targets. Israeli's would be foolhardy to allow hostile neighbors entry to perpetrate crimes. After all, Israel has been able to import friendly foreigners to perform many of the functions that the Pali's had previously done, these foreigners were more than happy to get the jobs.. The Pali's imposed economic hardships on themselves. Instead of feeding their familes with the monies they had sponged off those who were willing to fund them, they took the money to buy stuff that explodes and goes bang bang.

Is this who we as Americans want to call our ALLY - Israel is an APRTHIED STATE and makes South Africa look good by comparison. Disgusting state full of thieves and con men - Israel is rotting from the insid out and really starting to stink

Thank you, John Dugard for your advocacy for the Palestinian people. I just know Eleanor Roosevelt would have been be proud of you. I know I am. Israel lack of common decency towards the Palestinian people repels the free world and many peace groups in America have vowed to bring their officials and soldiers to justice. Israelis can mistreat their neighbors and ex- pect to get away with it anymore. Thanks, Dutch

"High Court rules it legal to build security fence on Palestinian farmland"

“The poorest families are now living a meagre existence totally reliant on assistance, with no electricity or heating and eating food prepared with water from bad sources. This is putting their long-term health at risk,” stressed Arnold Vercken, WFP’s Country Director in the oPt." How come the US supports this? Can anybody explain that to me?

from their camps. The qassems and suicide bombers are trying to achieve the same things that they tried to achieve with their first pogrom against unarmed Jews in the 1920's. Just like their proud allies the Nazis remember the Moslem SS troops blessed by Al Husseni.?

Well keep on denying it, but you seem to have the world onto you. When will Israel wake up to its own crimes against the palestinian people. Yes those people that weren't even there in palestine, the palestinians, when you claimed it was a country without people.

their people.

Marilyn, Thank you for stating what so many peace and justice groups in America feel about their government 'special relationship" with Israel today. It's absolutely disgraceful! They intent to change it if Israeli officials don't turn this around soon. I doubt if Israel will ever be considered "special" again. There's always a price to pay for inaction. Dutch

Israeli banker's discretion.

POSSIBLY EAT ANY MORE. JUST TOO FULL UP............. JUST LOOK AT THEM WHEN YOU NEXT SEE THE PHOTOS IN THE STREETS,AND GET A GOOD IDEA OF WHAT "INSECURE" REALLY MEANS...........

Well said.

In this case the hypocracy is all yours. How can a society that spends all its (free-never worked for) money on building, developing and purchasing weapons if there is no money for food? Care to explain?

What is it?preferntial treatment,or a biased talkback operator??????????????????? Or,perhaps you are sleeping on the job. Or savign ti for tomorrow that is Friday,and then Saturday(SHABAT)????????????????? I THINK IT IS MORE LIKELY THE FIRST...

It is not surprising when people like Marilyn and Maureen use the term Apartheid in referring to Israel, but a supposedly educated international personage? Apartheid is when one groups of citizens is denied liberties and advantages available to other citizens. Once and for all, the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza are not citizens and do not want to be!!!!

Before I went to the middle east I asked a friend what the Israelis were like. Think fascist he said, then extreme, and then look on the horizon and thats where you will find them. I went, and I agree with him. The only good things about Israel is that a small percentage of its citizens are racist - the rest are unashamedly downright fascist. Reading through the comment here tonight in reply to the appalling situation in Gaza, brought about by occupation and denial, I am now sure that more would have been achieved for world peace had we gone to war with Israel. After all, they DO have weapons of mass destruction, they do commit so many crimes against humanity, its quicker to ask when meeting an Israeli "which crime against humanity have you NOT committed today?, and their army does facilitate and commit crimes against humanity. To think these are the same people who went through a holocaust - disgraceful.

Edifice Now why bring in Haniyeh and Abbas,with their Armany suits etc.Just get to the facts and look,just look when they are in the sreets,with their weapons,or hauling a coffin of a killed terrorist and do you ever,EVER,EVER,see any thin,or skelletal woman,child or anyone? You are all here arguing about something that is not true at all.It is just propaganda by NGOs and the rest of the so-called do gooders who in the process get kinapped by these same oh so wonderful and poor people,in the process. None here that are so deaf and blind,with their pathetic and platitudes to believe such twaddle! If it is so dire(which it isn't)where are the help from the hundreds of Arab billioners you should ask yourselves.And lastly where do they find the "dosh" for the guns and rockets who kill the "Israeli children who are really" starving tell me that.Some of you here are just blind and real hypocrites................

Why is it that the richest countries in the world, mainly the oil rich from the middle east allow fellow arabs to go hungry. Our peoples response for Katrina was noteworthy in both monetary and volunteers provided. Were you there Marilyn? As for 500,000 soldiers getting no medical assistance, they will be cared for the rest of their lives. Americans take care of each other. So tell your Arab buds to clean up their backyard before stepping into ours.

not true... you grew up hating Jews. Palestinians are the greatest receipients of welfare in the world. Really poor countries would envy them. I just visited an area of hunters and gatherers, who use little money and are happy and well fed. They don't have Swiss accounts for the likes of Sula, nor do they desire ti kill their neighbours. Think you could blanket the country with food leaving nary a spot untouched if you spent your money on food instead of guns and corruption.

It is people like you that cause what is mistaken for anti-semitism not the decent and generous Jews that are slowly drowning out you and ilk.

THEN BEGIN TO CHIDE GABE1 ON HIS COMMENTS. Yours is pure platitudes and verbosity. We have never seen,nor will you ever see a skelletal,or anything likely as starving palis, believe me.You most probably will see hungry Israeli children(most unfortunate)and the constant demands from the charitable organizations who ask for donnation to feed these poor Jewish children and even adults in Israel.Now,that is truth. For goodness sake,stop believing the hog wash that permeates through these pages.Pure propaganda and gullible people like you swallow it "hook line and sinker" Look here,if they were really starving,how come they have thousands of ££££ and $$$and euros donated to them.The money goes to buy and accrue armaments.Where does hunger come into it? Money for rockets and katushyas aplenty,but not for food? Oh please,give us a break.This story of theirs is geting a bit too stale for most people. They just beg and beg,and where does the money go??have already told you.

More like ignorant of human decency during armed conflict ,

"the down-trodden non-settling jews, who live in disadvantaged places like Tel Aviv where glittering towers are built at the expense of improvement in the living conditions of the poor." Funny comment from someone in a city famous for its glittering towers, and which surely has its fair share of the "downtrodden. What does the one have to do with the other? Glittering towers are usually private building projects, while the downtrodden should be helped by the authorities. Point 1 is correct - and that's why there are aid programs and charities. Point 3 is inane Point 4 has nothing to do with Israel. Why don't the Palestinians start thinking for themselves??

Even being left-wing etc, I say to the Pals: Why the hell don't you make peace at long last and deliver your people from this unnecessary misery, so that they can live a good healthy life?!

The Israelis imposed an economic blockade a year ago because the Palestinians elected a government of which they disapproved, and got their American backers to pressure Europe to do the same. Now, a year later, you blame the Palestinians for their poverty. The Nazis kept the death camps secret but you people seem not to care who sees your crimes.

Here's a novel idea. Keep the embargo going strong -- eventually the Pals will have to sell their guns to buy food.

Local Arabs are finding out what it is to live under Arab rule. Like their "brothers" beyond our borders, they are now hungry, without work and living in a mafia society without the benefits of meaningful democracy and its institutions. No one forced them to take up arms against this society which had bestowed rights upon them which no other Arab nation enjoys. Their empty lies and terroist rhetoric are ultimately of no real account. They chose the gun. Unfortunately, for them, it is not edible.

Here is the sentiment expressed by Gabe 1 which is typical of many others on this board: "As that famous Chinese saying goes."Frankly ma dear I don`t give a damn" and it is apt here. It they want food and let them give up arms and if they want arms let them give up food." Few people doubted how little you cared for the suffering of anyone not Jewish. You hardly needed to convince any of us of that. Or as the saying goes " haretz israel uber ales" At least we now see how ugly anti-semitism really was (and is). What gabe 1 says is quite what they used to say about jews resisting deportation too. The only difference is the exact type of semite.

To tour West Bank and Gaza is like visiting the jeewish ghettos in Poland 1940-44. Only this time the SS is the IDF.

about "food insecurity" as well as bad governance. The report must be truly one-sided. It failed to mention that: 1. In Israel proper there are also plenty of people who suffer "food insecurity" and other depravations. Check Ethiopians for example. 2. There is also apartheid between Israelis and settlers - the latter getting singled out for better treatment at the expense of the down-trodden non-settling jews, who live in disadvantaged places like Tel Aviv where glittering towers are built at the expense of improvement in the living conditions of the poor. 3. It's the palestinians fault for wanting to eat so much. If they had fewer chikdren they would need less food. 4. There is worse apartheid in Iraq where Americans get preferrential treatment over legions of starving Iraqis left to fend for themselves!! In fact, in Iraq 0ver 70% are "food insecure".

Judging by these one-sided absurd reports.

In previous posts I forgat this other Arab talent, STEAL EVERYTHING,LET OTHERS GO HUNGRY.

One of Saudi princes build a house for himself for 360 MILLION $ I watched on TV, he gave a tour for TV.Arabs do not care about others, unless for terror purposes. THEIR TALENTS DO NOT EXTEND FURTHER THEN TO BE A TERRORIST,OR TO FUND TERROR.And then dance on the streets,give out sweets.Greate future!!!!

This officials are paid big time under the table by the Arab rich countries (Google UN investigations news) you will learn about this hipocrats. I know life is not confortable for Palestinians, you see it on TV, but not starving that is a lenghty strech. Life will be much better , much better if they stop killing each other and choose peace, but then think about it "How would the Arab countries will distract their population?" A Billion dollars a day in oil is hard to hyde. Can you even immagine a billion dollars a day? Open your eyes, this is purchased propaganda period.

So food is not realy important, DEATH IS WHAT THEY CHERISH.This is the reason, you do not see much productivity from arabs, mostly destruction, and envy toward everybody, especialy Israel. Indeed, religion of peace.

That the arabs should stop spending on wepons and start produce food. WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS IDEA??????? Of course, this is painful to take for somebody with mind of a TERRORIST,like Steve Beikirch, Marilyn,Click-Fool, Johnboy,Sullyvan...and endless others.Sorry, no pity for terrorists!!!

The Israeli govenment for many years takes the aid bound for the Palestinians and diverts it to the settlers. Its funny how you would ask for proof like some sort of gangster who everyone knows is guilty and is always asking for the cops to prove it.

Before the murderous arabs started the terror compaighn ageinst Israel, they had the highest living standard of all arab/muslims. But they always choose terror over reason. this is the character, the nature of an arab.Look around, anywere is an arab ,the story is the same. Reading your posts, it lookes like you buried your head in sand, and keep parroting the same stupidity.Try to think and then talk.

Those of you who mock the Palestinians for not taking advantage of the greenhouses so graciously left behind by the settlers (oh wait, they were paid for by who... arabs donations) were not immediately destroyed as many of you are stating. The Palestinians planted a very successful winter crop - which then rotted in trucks because Israel closed both Karni and Raffa border crossings and would not let the produce out for sale. They then did not plant a following season because it was unsure if Israel would do the exact same thing. Israel has complete control over Gaza's airspace, sea-lanes and borders - it can deny the European monitor's access to Raffa border crossing and it can't be used without them. They withdrew the settlers and soldiers from the interior of Gaza and made it into one large open-air prison for the gazans. What's the point of them trying to grow or make anything if the Israelis can, at a whim, close down the borders or destroy the fields during an incursion?

The Philadelphia Police have a method of removing guns from the streets, it's also used in other cities. Each weapon turned in is worth $50, in script, that can be used at supermarkets. Pali's can do the same, turn in an AK47 = $50, pistol = $50, and so forth. Hungry, sell your gun and eat. Keep your weapon, make do with what you have. Still hungry, then it's your fault. You've been on the dole for almost 60 years, get used to working instead of living of charity. It's like giving a puppy a biscuit when he does a trick.

To all those who so quickly rebuke Israel for their actions , look at this situation from another perspective. Crimes of Arabs Nations towards Jews indigenous to those nations. At this point in history Jews have been ethnically cleansed from those countries , albight a few people hear and there. In the histories of those Arab nations the Arabs have committed a list of atrocities to long to mention against our people. There is no reason to trust any Arab with an equal footing when they have shown historically to ethnically cleanse us, commit horrible crimes against us, from my point of view they are lucky we haven't committed genocide against them and should either leave or suck it up.

Now, eat the fruits of Arafat's economic boycotts! Arafat terrorized Palestinian merchants to force them to close their shops to shut down the Palestinian economy. Palestinian Muslims destroy their own economy. Palestinian Muslims killed their own tourist industry - by killing their tourists! Help! Help! Stop me from hitting my head against the wall!

To the Palestinian families of murderers who succeeded in blowing up Israelis - hey Marilyn???

I object the the Jews of Europe are being compared by you to te Islamofascists. The Balestinians are the biggest international wlfare bums bar none but any other donations go to buy weapons instead of FOOD. If starvation will stop them from their pastime of killing Jews than so be it. It will be their own indoing. I do nopt care about the Balestininas and they have 22 countries to look after than and some of them are wealthy. MY ADVICE--MOOOOOVE.

Of course, they may be hungry. Look where the money went, buys guns & explosives. Trains kids to be homicide bombers. Pays Shahid's families after they blow themselves up. Funds are stolen by Arafat, Abbas, Haniyeh or anyone else that can get into the bank.

Now that is real apartheid! In fact, Arabs live in Israel, but the reverse is not true. The Pals and the Arab world appears to be intollerant to all people who are different from them. It is both laughable and sad that Israel is being targeted by such false accusations.

And every single one of the billions of dollars and Euros that have poured into Gaza and the West Bank since Oslo has been spent on weapons and lining the pockets of the Palestinian leadership and their cronies, instead of for the benefit of the people, including creating decent housing, health, education, undustries and jobs. FAgricultural facilities handed to them on a silver platter were trashed, countless offers by Israel of joint projects were rejected (humiliation, no?)and the leaders have told their people to be prepared to suffer for the cause - as the refugees havebeen told for 60 years. Face it, becasue that's the way it is.

Who cares about your assessment on occupation. Guns or food. Your people must decide.If it takes starvation to disarm the vermin -so be it.

My goodness, your lack of knowledge is amazing. U.S. soldiers and their families (I was one), receive the finest medical care of any Army in the world, in fact, better than most civilians. As an ex-soldier, I still receive medical attention from the Veterans Adminstration, drugs are either furnished at cost or no charge, depending upon the circumstances. All I do is present my VA card for identification, and lo and behold I'm taken care of. Many matters, medication orders as an example are done over the phone. You just babble on, not knowing what you're talking about. True, we have people that are hungry, we also have disabled that are unable to work, they receive social assistance. New Orleans was a massive natural disaster, the U.S. has spent billions in attempting to rehabilitate it. They held the Madri Gra this week. While you're so socially concious, what's with the miserable state of your very own ABORIGINIES and the REHABILITATION OF YOUR MUSLIM RAPE GANGS?

When does Israel say enough is enough and stops giving the Balestinians opportunities to murder Jews. When Nadav. Or is that a life sentence until they yell Hudna. When does Israel start ridding itself of these squatters or do we just look the other way and let them murder and maim.Is that the legacy you want to leave for your children and grandchildren. Is it Nadav? Did we not return to Eretz Israel to be safe? Please answer me before you decide to make yourself invisible.

Food insecure...but strangely not weapons insecure and absolutely no insecurtiy in the homicide bomber department. And these people want a country? HA

What's the matter? Afraid to trot out the UN's "Special rapporteur on the right to food", the glorious Jean Ziegler?

Many civilian Iraqis are being killed each and every day, this is a fact. However they are being killed not by US soldiers but by other Iraqis who belong to different Islamic sects. The US gave them an opportunity to have a civilized and peaceful democracy. Unfortunately Arabs still live I the feudal middle ages and they still did not learn to become a nation.

What is going on here? How the hell can you people defend the brutal tactic of intentinal starvation of children? What noble people you are, what pride you must feel when you see the image of a malnourished Palestinian kid. "They deserve it", oh really? Only pathetic cowards make war on children, but then again children can't fight back.

marylin, the 60's are over. hippies smell. palestinian men women and children are suicide bombers, down to age 7. dont cry for me argentina. i wonder if you would sing the same tune had a member of your family tasted the sweet innocence of the palestinian child wearing a belt of TNT and ball bearings. you fool. let the lucid, non drug using adults handle these beasts. you just go back to your flower child rain dance or whatever you loonies do.

There wasn't even a question. He has impulse control issues and answers (incorrectly I might add) impulsively whenever he feels anti-Israel feelings coming on. Besides, he nows that its the so-called Palestinians who receive more aid than anyone in the world. This is not a fact anyone denies.

But your answer is wrong anyways. Dosen't surprise me-stupid people with no knowledge of facts are always posting cynical comments at this site. I guess youre just one of them.

don't be silly. Only a miniscule number of Palestinians are involved inviolence. Miniscule. Not even one percent of Palestinian males are involved in conflict. Do you actually think 40,000 (one percent of 4 milion Palestinians in territores) or more Palestinian males are involved in the conflict? Please no where near that number is involved. Yes, they all get stripped searched and body cavity examined randomly at check points but less than a half of a percent are involved in any form of actual violence. Good lord, if they got 40,000 males to be violent, Israel would have an actual military conflict.

so they are eating but they dont feel secure about it? i feel so much for the poor food insecure suicide bombers. give me a break. call me when they starve so i can buy a house in gaza already. what a joke.

Another thing. Dugard was a lecturer of mine in the 70's in South Africa. Even in those days he was the biggest anti semite and anti establishment. The biggest blinkered on liberal you ever met.

Actually, that is BS. THe Palestinians, who are admittedly petite, are on the lowest scale of food/water supplies per person in the world. Only Ethiopia is in worse shape, and that has improved. The thing about the Palestinains is that when there is little to no food, the males limit their food consumption to assure that the children and women have a sufficient amount. In the majority of the world, under similar circumstances, you would have mass starvation because usually (in most cultures) the males would be the only ones to eat. Children and pregnant women are at most risk when their is limited food. The majority of people who die during famine are children and women because the MEN eat everything. That is not true among the Palestinians; therefore, they have remarkable resilience when it comes to lack of food and water. The males bear the burden and therefore the collective survives.

Is it your argument? Dugard is a career Israel basher.Who'd listen to his pontifications on any other subject but Israel?

Perhaps you should simply go and look at the Palestinians. It is clear from the males' physical condition that they lack sufficient food. Also, Food "unsecure" is a word of art refering to not knowing where the next meal is comming from and/or only consuming one meal a day. OPEN YOUR FREAKING EYES!

No shortage of bomb making materials or kassams though.....hummmm. The Un is up to its old tricks as usual.

The per capita caloric intake of Palestinian Arabs is better than that of Egypt, Yemen, Iran among others. The unusually overweight Hanieh, the numerous pictures of overweight Palestinians, the ever increasing expenditure of resources on arms and armies (such as the recently introduced Hamas force), the flousrishing smuggling business, the high birth rate, the relatively low infant mortality rate, the hight rate of cell phone and computer ownership, these all point to a society that is not lacking food but is seeking more attention.

during aparteid, there was no lack of food supplies to the Blacks in South Africa. Clearly, the situation in Palestine is not aparteid. Israel wants to do without Palestinians entirely, while white South Africans were keen on keeping the Blacks for cheap labor. Again, clearly not aparteid.

How do you know the money goes to Israel?? Even Abbas and the UN agencies there admit to receiving the funds from the US, EU, etc. Are they lying?

How can anyone read this article without any cynicism when considering the following: 1) Pals are the largest recipient of aid in the world 2) Millions of $$ are smuggled in by Hamas, and NONE goes to the people - only to buy weapons and to pay Hamas-loyal Gazans. 3) The lifeline of Gaza, the Karni Junction, where all of the healthcare and food come into (and exports leave through) is the most targeted place. Shouldn't it be the most protected by both sides??? 4) The one place where income can be made, at the Erez Ind. Park, most Pals are kept from going to work by terror Pals and are even killed in attempts to hurt Israelis. Seems like they like to make excuses to manage their own lives, and want the world to pay for it. What's more cynical? The UN managers in Gaza live in nice homes, get over $50K, and drive SUVs....while helping "poor" Pals. Ironic, no?

of the matter is that this is just another lie of the UN to make Israel look bad. There is no starvation in Gaza or the West Bank. I don't have to have been there to know. You just have to read what is going on. I have never heard of Palestinians starving to death like people do in Africa.

"[Dugard] says it is grossly inaccurate to say Israel's 2005 removal of settlers and soldiers from Gaza constituted an end to its occupation of that territory" - Haaretz Can't he see that there are no settlers there any more? Hmmm, perhaps that is not a good criterion.

Where did they come up with a phrase like "food insecure"? Seems like they can't say 'famine' or 'starving' and they want to be anti-Israeli so they coined the phrase 'food insecure'. There are plenty of people in the US and other places that are 'food insecure'. The average person in California had two weeks of money in th bank when I lived there. Out of work for two weeks and they're broke. That's got to be "food insecure' too.

"An independent report commissioned by the United Nations compares Israel's actions in the West Bank and Gaza to apartheid South Africa." - Haaretz What will the excuse be now? (a) Dugard was appointed by the "now defunct" UN Human Rights Commission (replaced by something worse). Hence, his report is invalid. (b) Dugard is a lawyer so he doesn't know the difference between truth and lies. (c) He read Carter's book and was unduly influenced. (d) The report only deals with Israel. Why shouldn't he also discuss the situation in Darfur? Something must be wrong with his objectivity.

Between 1993 and 2002 the Palestinians received 4 times as much aid as the Europeans did under the Marshall plan, on a per capita basis. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC06.php?CID=406 By now that ratio must be even higher. Where has all that money gone? I was also going to ask how is all that Israel's problem, being that Israel has been out of Gaza for a year and a half now, but I see that someone (#40) beat me to it.

A: Israel

....condition in the areas under their control. They could have had Israel's assistance, they could have had the assistance of the world, they could have been by now on their way to the establishment of an independent political entity. Yet, they have chosen to continue their war of terror and murder against Israel, while refusing to recognize its right to exist. They have been missing yet another opportunity in a long chain of opportunities over the past 80 years to live in an independent Palestinian Arab state peacefully and prosperously nexst to the Jewish state of Israel.

I will grant that Israel needs to do something about Palestinian starvation in the W. Bank, but not Gaza. Israel is out of Gaza. And it has a border with Egypt. If the Arab world wants to support Palestinians starving in Gaza let them. It is no longer Israels responceablity.

If only the pals would spend even 10% of the money they buy weapons with then everyone in Gaza and the WB would be eating filet mignon every single night. Why are we supposed to cry over their starvation when every dollar they get is spent on weapons to target Israeli babies with? They are being given a billion dollars a year (even during the "international boycott") yet are still starving...however those of us who read haaretz every day will notice how they've managed to extend the range of their rockets numerous times and have managed to procure new anti-tank rockets, more explosives and guns since hamas took office...I wonder where the money is going? Of course, the international community is entirely at fault because they are supplying them with a billion dollars a year , yet when the pals run out of food are happy to supply endless "relief" without ever questioning where where the billion dollars in cash went first...and the terrorists know this.

Palestinoian starving??? Look at hams leaders, they are all obsenely fat.

Who are these donors that keep giving despite the Arabs remaining hungry? Do they not wonder why their money isn't alleviating this problem? Or perhaps they simply don't care so long as they are allowed to meddle and feel like they're doing something good?

who is living the life of ultimate luxury on 22mil/yr. You can also forward pleas for $$$ to almost every Arab politico on the take. And dont forget to ask for $$$$ from Iran for food who would gladly pay any amt of money for a suicide slaughter.

Where does the money go?

Abbas and Haniyeh look perfectly well nourished to me.

The dozens of Islamic States out there, despite their fantastic oil wealth, virtually never spare a Widow’s Mite for the Palestinians. The Saudis, will buy new German Sport Utility Vehicles and smash them for entertainment, they won’t send the Palestinians so much as a Gift Basket. If they were really generous, they would buy the Palestinians the one thing they always claim they wanted, land. There is a lot of cheap land in the dozens of countries Moslems Already Rule. Feel Generous?

Australia has a free press but you wouldn't know it from you. Your? facts? sound like they?ve been lifted from an al-Qaeda ?Primer on Infidel US? If anyone needs weapons, it is Israel. Has Australia been attacked since the first day of her existence by all of her 'neighbors' who still demand her extermination? So how do you know anything? The same amount of money given Israel is also given to Egypt. Yet Egypt has no democracy and does nothing for its people. The $3M US to Egypt is merely payoff money to Mubarak so we don?t have a Muslim ?Hood government. And the US does not 'blow up' Iraqis. Iraqis blow up Iraqis. Your friends like to kill men, women and children every way possible. Now I know why there are so many crocks in Australia. People like you are full of crock.

Let them eat their bullets and bombs. They're like the guy who murders his parents and then cries for mercy from the court because after all, he's an orphan.

I guess nobody told them that infidels make the best accountants. Well that is what happens when you kick all the Jews out of your country.

They claim to be native to a place where they do not know how to find water or raise crops without step by step instructions from the settlers they drove out.

Gabe1 comments sound severe BUT do you realize that these people tore down greenhouses donated to them. The Good Lord helps those that help themselves. The Palestinian leadership should be ashamed, if they even have that emotion, because they and Arafat have led their people to be human shields and pawns....SO that they could blame Israel. I have been to Africa and those people are starving.....the Palis are pawns.

The Unity Government was their offspring. They've promised the Palestinians $500 million in aid, and they have the diplomatic muscle and the financial channels to get this money through. The US and Israeli conspiracy to starve the people into submission won't work. Everything the boneheaded Bush administration touches goes pear-shaped.

Highest per capita aid in the world. Why? Arab nations only pay 3% of aid, yet gladly fund terror and families of terror. Return to Mecca and Arabia where saudi has offered 1.5 million new jobs to its already 7 million infidels working in country. Pal arabs need to work and save saudi arabia from the infidels. They need to save the destruction of Muhammeds birthplace. Spending 60 years trying to destroy Israel has left them hungry in Israel. Time to return home to Mecca. Time to stop using PalArabs as pawns of Jihad and Terror and reward them in Islams holy land of Arabia. Time to leave the Jews alone.

The US gives Israel $3 billion a year to buy weapons mate, the US is spending that much every week blowing up Iraqis and looting the country while 500,000 US soldiers cannot get medical care and 30 million Americans are hungry. New Orleans is a great example of the brave new world of the US isn't it?

Suha Arafat is living in Paris, better than 98% of humankind, off her husband's multibillion dollar stash. Question: Is Suha secure enough to feed the "food insecure?" Yes? No?

Get rid of your silly ethnic cleansing broken record as you have turned a term that describes a serious crime into a meaningless phrase used for political purposes by ignorant people. It's hard to claim ethnic cleanising when the Arab population of Israel today is far larger than it was in 1948, mostly descendents of those Aarabs who were not stupid enough to listen to their murderous leaders in 1948. Secondly, you are using the "into the sea" phrase used by those same Arab to pursuade your beloved Palestinians to move in the first place. And if you knew anything about the region, you would know that the Arabs moved eastwards and the sea is to the west.

disease, because much of the UN money is directed at the Palestinians, and has been for decades, instead of demanding of them to learn to produce their own food and not live on hand outs from the international community.

embargo and invasion of Iraq established on lies of wepons of mass distruction and other lies ( relation with AL Qaida ) kiled more than a million child ...WHAT we call killing one million child more that 5 million refugee left there country houses buisnesses ???? no one is to blame here ..... why not doing the same with Palestinians ???say all what you want ...on the ground the same prosess...Palestinians can manage to suvive ??? how ??? Using Masada model ???

Before freezing the money-flow to Pals last year, the Pal-adm. received 200.000 Euros per Palestinian a year. How big are the PA-expenses that NOTHING is left for the "rainy day" at hand? Where has all the money vanished? Since the problem is NOT the lack of means, the problem must be in the money-management. Therefore the EU, the primary contributor, should manage the Pal-economy for them! Else financing Palestine's autonomy does NOT make any sense!

Another product of the Australian education system and her Masters in stupidity. Read what I said not what you perceive to be your agenda. You want weapons or Food? And I thought the "occupation" started in 1967 when the Balestinians became a Nation. I want you to get lost into Jordan and I don't care about the Arabs.For that you have 22 other states and some are even very wealthy. Spare me your CROCODILE Tears.

Were they 'food insecure' when Jews employed them in the hothouses they later inherited and immediately destroyed? Do you think any palestinian would 'destroy' weapons left behind? Weapons would be cherished and handled with care but the means to produce food is apparently worthless to palestinians. At every turn and at every crossroad they make the wrong choice. Their total dependence on Western aid - Arabs give them almost nothing - is so embedded in their society that they have abandoned any concept of even trying to feed themselves. This is the most pathetic welfare society on the face of the earth. When one sees hungry, yes, starving Africans one so wishes to help them yet the world provides only the minimum if even that. But for palestinians, Euros and others are willing to bend every principle until it breaks to get money to them. Not food mind you which the PA doesn't want - but cash. And you know what cash buys - weapons and foreign bank accounts. A morally bankrupt society.

Were they 'food insecure' when Jews employed them in the hothouses they later inherited and immediately destroyed? Do you think any palestinian would 'destroy' weapons left behind? Weapons would be cherished and handled with care but the means to produce food is apparently worthless to palestinians. At every turn and at every crossroad they make the wrong choice. Their total dependence on Western aid - Arabs give them almost nothing - is so embedded in their society that they have abandoned any concept of even trying to feed themselves. This is the most pathetic welfare society on the face of the earth. When one sees hungry, yes, starving Africans one so wishes to help them yet the world provides only the minimum if even that. But for palestinians, Euros and others are willing to bend every prinicple until it breaks to get money to them. Not food mind you which the PA doesn't want - but cash. And you know what cash buys - weapons and foreign bank accounts. A morally bankupt society.

Were they 'food insecure' when Jews employed them in the hothouses they later inherited and immediately destroyed? Do you think any palestinian would 'destroy' weapons left behind? Weapons would be cherished and handled with care but the means to produce food is apparently worthless to palestinians. At every turn and at every crossroad they make the wrong choice. Their total dependence on Western aid - Arabs give them almost nothing - is so embedded in their society that they have abandoned any concept of even trying to feed themselves. This is the most pathetic welfare society on the face of the earth. When one sees hungry, yes, starving Africans one so wishes to help them yet the world provides only the minimum if even that. But for palestinians, Euros and others are willing to bend every prinicple until it breaks to get money to them. Not food mind you which the PA doesn't want - but cash. And you know what cash buys - weapons and foreign bank accounts. A morally bankupt society.

Were they 'food insecure' when Jews employed them in the hothouses they later inherited and immediately destroyed? Do you think any palestinian would 'destroy' weapons left behind? Weapons would be cherished and handled with care but the means to produce food is apparently worthless to palestinians. At every turn and at every crossroad they make the wrong choice. Their total dependence on Western aid - Arabs give them almost nothing - is so embedded in their society that they have abandoned any concept of even trying to feed themselves. This is the most pathetic welfare society on the face of the earth. When one sees hungry, yes, starving Africans one so wishes to help them yet the world provides only the minimum if even that. But for palestinians, Euros and others are willing to bend every prinicple until it breaks to get money to them. Not food mind you which the PA doesn't want - but cash. And you know what cash buys - weapons and foreign bank accounts. A morally bankupt society.

"LET THEM EAT GUNS". The women and children suffer because their menfolk have decided that guns and explosives are more essential than food. Your concern is most touching. While you're at it, explain your lack of concern for the 200,000 Christian East Timoran's butchered by the Indonesian Muslim's. After all, that's much closer to your home than Palestine is. Keep it up, you're always good laugh.

"As that famous Chinese saying goes."Frankly ma dear I don`t give a damn" and it is apt here." Dear Gabe, I hope your children will never face food shortages - even if YOUR world turns against you and you become the most cruel human being ever. Avot Okhleem Boser O'Shnei Banaihen Tikahena??? (Children pay for the ills of their parents?). What would you say if you overheard someone saying what you said while looking at pictures of starving Jewish children in some concentration camp? What will you call them? Monsters? Inhuman? Animals? Heartless? I'll let you choose the most fitting name, and I'll even venture to ask you if you would've behaved differently had you been one of those camp guards??? Probably NOT!

U.N. has ZERO nada credibility, when it comes to Palestinians because U.N. staffs Hamas employees who do these reports. How come media was reporting that financial iad has doubled through NGO's when Hamas came to power, instead of blaming Israel, U.N. should ask where the money is going??

The UN should know that more than half the population of the world is "food insecure". To single out palestinians is absolutely biased.

And they also didnt care enough about the hot houses GIVEN to them by Jews to maintain rather than ransack. This is the fault of the Arabs in Gaza. IT is sad they are hungry, but it is their own fault. Its time for them to struggle for peace and prosperity instead of against it and live on the handouts of others. Stop destroying and start building!

Great comment by Gabe1. Indeed, only a chosen people like the people of Israel should be able to have nuclear weapons and illegally occupy lands without repercussions. But if Palestinians want some rights, let them starve. But there is of course no apartheid going on here. Jimmy Carter is totally out of line!

"It they want food and let them give up arms and if they want arms let them give up food." Big talk for someone who probably never missed a meal in his pathetic little life. One can only hope that one day you get a chance to walk in their shoes. Enjoy your life while you can.

You are asking 1.5 million people in Gaza to Kneel down . They will not. Remember Masa'da that the Jews are so proud of. Starving children, women , the eold and the meak , if they die , their blood is on Israel's hand. Remember Marie Antoinette's comment :" Let them eat cake" and a year later her head was off at the Guillotine. Gabe , caloused attitudes like yours certainly contribute to the mess the whole area is in. If it is truely peace that you seek , reevaluate your attitudes or you will never find the peace you seek...

I would wave quoted a famous queen who said "Let them eat cake," except that I doubt there are mass-production cake factories in Gaza and the West Bank. Maybe they should convert their bomb and missile factories into food banks? No, wait, you can't kill innocent civilians and thwart peace deals by wearing hot-dog belts and launching rice.

about responsible government

They don't dare to repeat the blatant lie "pals are starving" so they've found on some "food unsecure" rubbish to justify pouring of billions in the endless cesspool of pal corruption and duplicity. .

Frankly my dear I think you are a savage. Over half of the population are small children and women who have nothing to do with the bloody politics of the country. Israel is not content with ethnically cleansing the country in 1948, bulldozing or burning down 531 villages and towns, destroying 3 million hectares of land, driving 800,000 people into the sea or across borders so they can steal the land they now want the world to help them commit genocide on people who were not even born at the time. Gabe 1, you truly, truly disgust me and if you are Jewish you should hang your head in shame - I grew up believing that Jewish people would never, ever deprive a living creature of food but you want to happily starve children to death. IT IS PALESTINIAN LAND.

As that famous Chinese saying goes."Frankly ma dear I don't give a damn" and it is apt here. It they want food and let them give up arms and if they want arms let them give up food.