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Weaponizing Starvation: Exposing Hamas's Food Warfare
(Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs) Dr. Dan Diker - The New York Times' July 30th admission of misreporting of its front-page photograph of a Palestinian child suffering from cerebral palsy and genetic disorders, misrepresented as a starvation victim, is the latest example of years of coordinated information warfare against Israel, transforming humanitarian concerns into strategic weapons to isolate and subvert the one democratic, Jewish-majority state. Iran's Hamas proxy operatives have used disinformation warfare to win world opinion, defame Israel globally, and subvert it from within. The current media crusade accusing Israel of premeditated, systematic starvation of Gaza has successfully hijacked Western hearts and minds, increasingly isolating Israel internationally. Yet simple fact-checking would reveal the UN's failure to deliver massive amounts of humanitarian aid that Israel has facilitated. Israel has begun to fire back. Israeli Consul General in New York Ophir Akunis launched an electronic billboard campaign in Times Square, displaying images and video of emaciated Israeli hostages with the message, "Stop the Fake news in Gaza. This is what real hunger looks like. This is what truth looks like. Israeli hostage Evyatar David, held in Hamas terror dungeons for some 670 days since the October 7th invasion, is being starved by a Nazi terrorist organization that dares, with the backing of parts of the media, to spread the blood libel that Israel is starving the people of Gaza." Success in weaponizing humanitarian law against democratic states establishes precedents that threaten the Western alliance. Recognizing this crusade as a weapon of Islamic warfare is the first step toward developing effective countermeasures. This is a critical moment for moral and strategic clarity. The writer is President of the Jerusalem Center.