Gaza: the most lied about war in history, and the left’s blood libel. By Brendan O’Neil in spiked.
What would you call a country that is experiencing one of the highest levels of population growth on Earth? How would you describe a country where the child malnutrition levels are similar to those of that industrial powerhouse of Europe, Germany? What would you say about a nation that was in receipt of so much food aid that at one stage around 3,163 calories were available per person, per day? I’ll tell you what you couldn’t say: that that country is suffering one of the most demonic genocides in history. That its people are being forcibly starved. That its pain finds no parallel in the annals of human wickedness.
I am talking about Gaza. …
Three years since Hamas’s genocidal invasion of the Jewish State, the truth of the war that followed is starting to peep through the choking slurry of lies. If I were one of those people who spent the past three years blood-libelling the Jewish nation as a Nazi-like, child-starving murder machine, I’d start thinking up some excuses right about now. For history is coming for you. …
Gaza is the most lied about war in history. Nothing else comes close. The branding of a war as a ‘genocide’, and normal war suffering as ‘famine’, is a flagrant crime against truth. The branding of the Jews’ fightback against anti-Semitic barbarism as ‘genocidal mania’ is unforgivable….
To call the Jewish State a Nazi entity is the great, terrible lie of our times. It is a libel without compare. It is utterly without foundation. …
It’s actually quite simple. If you wanted to ‘genocide’ a people, would you send them tens of millions of meals and assist in the vaccination of a million of their children from polio? Israel did that in Gaza. It spearheaded the importing of millions of tonnes of food. It worked with the World Health Organisation to vaccinate more than a million Gazan kids. Not only is this ‘unlike’ what the Nazis did to the Jews — it’s the polar, stirring, complete opposite.
In Nazi Poland, over 97% of the Jews died. In Gaza, less than 3% of the population died. One’s a real genocide, the other a bunch of lies.