From: NefeshBarYochai <void@invalid.noy>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.israel,talk.politics.guns,can.politics,alt.society.liberalism,or.politics
Subject: This isn't a 'war' Israel is destroying a population
Organization: The International Network of Orthodox Mental Health Professionals
Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2025 00:28:33 -0400
This Isnt a `War Israel is Destroying a Population
Paul R. Pillar - Responsible Statecraft
What is taking place in Gaza now is mostly not a war, even though
that term commonly is applied to the violence there. It is instead a
largely unilateral assault on a population and its means of living. It
is a situation in which one side, Israel, has as Trump might put it
nearly all the cards. The news stories emerging almost daily from
Gaza are not about pitched battles between the Israeli Defense Forces
(IDF) and Hamas fighters. They are mostly not about battles at all.
Instead, they are about the latest large-scale killing by Israel of
Gazans, mostly civilians, at a rate that has averaged about 150 deaths
per day since the current round of carnage began in late 2023
More
recent press reporting shows that the IDF itself has found no evidence
of Hamas seizing or diverting aid.
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/hamas-israel-starvation/