Always so fascinating to see the perspective on someone who clearly knows only what they read in western media and hasn’t actually learned anything about this conflict.

First off, there’s no famine. There never was a famine.

Just like in the early days of the war an Islamic jihad rocket fell in the parking lot of a hospital and it was reported said hospital had been completely reported with hundreds dead based on what Hamas claimed, but then the next day we found the hospital had miraculously grown back overnight and the death count was pure fiction, this oft repeated claim is a lie.

We’ve been told for months how hospitals in Gaza are “days away from running out of fuel” but the actual day when the fuel runs out never comes.

Sure. My car is always days away from running out of fuel too, and my kitchen and pantry often less than a week from being out of food as well, but like Gaza, that never actually happens nor is it anything worthy of front page news.

Remember this headline in February?

https://press.un.org/en/2024/sc15604.doc.htm

Famine is imminent, they say.

But what happens if we don’t use the “news” but instead check an outlet that actually requires information presented to have firsthand sources cited and facts verified?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_Strip_famine

From that source we get:

“On 30 June 2024, the IPC Global Famine Review Committee said evidence indicates famine is not currently occurring in Gaza, but that high risk of famine would persist as long as the war.”

Well yeah. That’s what happens when you attack another country and they go to war with you. Your food supply gets disrupted while the country you attacked roots out the terror group you elected, but that’s different from famine, and different from genocide.

Oh, did you not see a news article or instagram post that there isn’t actually a famine despite that fact being published by the UN itself? How interesting.

Next, let’s talk about geography.

Many people are unaware that there are Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, on the Mediterranean coast just a bit to the North of Israel.

They’re also unaware that the largest Palestinian camp outside Gaza or the West Bank is in Lebanon, along with many others.

Finally, the thing that NEVER gets talked about in the Western press are facts like in 2007 Lebanon razed one of their Palestinian camps to the ground after radical Muslims took it over, displacing tens of thousands.

They don’t talk about how the violence between terror factions in Ain El Hilweh, the largest camp, got so bad that the Lebanese decided to put a wall around it and have their army respond when the fighting would spill out.

They also don’t talk about how the policies for Palestinians in Lebanon are identical to those in Israel. Harsher, if anything.

Palestinians in Lebanon are subject to restricted movements and military checkpoints. They can’t own property, hold most jobs, vote, get Lebanese passports, etc.

This isn’t in disputed territory like the West Bank, it’s in Lebanon proper. Strangely, no one ever calls this Apartheid or questions why the Lebanese would do this.

Why? Well, the Palestinians’ arrival also heralded the beginning of a 20 year civil war which nearly destroyed Lebanon, and their policy of terrorism resulted in that camp getting razed in 2007 and the wall going up in 2016.

This isn’t covered in the Western press, and there is nary a purple haired tear shed in US college encampments, but you know who does report on it? The Palestinian press.

Let’s see what “The Electronic Intifada” has to say. No danger of a pro Israel bias there.

https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/violence-ein-al-hilweh-prism-regional-power-struggles

Look how frankly they speak about Hamas using UNRWA schools as military bases:

“All of UNRWA’s eight schools housed in two compounds in Ein al-Hilweh have been turned into bases for armed groups, preventing the return of nearly 6,000 students when the new academic year begins early next month.”

And as for the humanitarian crisis, here’s the reason given:

“Humanitarian needs amongst camp residents are high and rising, driven largely by systemic discrimination over generations, failed governance structures, unprecedented financial and economic crises affecting the country, and the social and economic inequality experienced by Palestine refugees.”

Gosh. Sounds like Hamas and Fatah just aren’t super great about distributing the billions in foreign aid and food donations that come in, even when there’s no war.

Don’t worry, this article bends over backwards to blame all of this on Israel anyway despite them not being invoked for decades, and makes no reference to the Palestinians’ poor leadership, the violence that seems to permeate their culture, or the responsibility of the Lebanese government or army for their own actions.

It’s just interesting that all the factors in Gaza are in play in Lebanon too, even when the Israelis aren’t involved. Violence, Hamas using civilian facilities for militants, humanitarian crisis despite there being more than enough actual aid for everyone, and Palestinians not being allowed to leave their camp for fear of what they may do outside of it.

Do you think, just maybe, it’s that policy of nonstop terrorism and violence that the Palestinians have embraced since their “ethnicity” was invented in the 1960’s that could be at the root of their issues?

After assassinating the King of Jordan, they fought and were expelled from Jordan too. That’s how they ended up in Lebanon. You can Google “Black September” if you want to know more about that.

A Jihadi killed the prime minister of Egypt too. That, plus all the suicide bombers in Cairo during the 80’s are why Egypt won’t let in their refugees anymore.

Kuwait expelled almost their entire Palestinian population in the 1990’s. Didn’t care for them backing Saddam Hussein when he invaded. Something like 300,000 people ethnically cleansed in a week… no one shut down a highway in America over it though, or even questioned why it happened.

So you see… Jordan, Egypt, and Lebanon have all had experiences with the Palestinians nearly as bad as the Israelis. That’s why they can’t “walk across the border.”

Palestinians in Jordan even used to be Jordanian citizens able to vote and having representation in the Jordanian government, but after Black September, the civil war, and the Arab League’s insistence that no, Palestinians couldn’t be Jordanian, that citizenship was stripped and the “No man’s land” policy that exists in the West Bank today came about.

So yeah… if you just look at a map or get your news from TikTok or the BBC, I can see how you might end up with this terribly naive and misinformed take.

If you do even the most basic fact checking or research though, it looks pretty different.