{"id":27638,"date":"2025-07-31T08:12:27","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T15:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=27638"},"modified":"2025-07-31T08:15:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T15:15:36","slug":"to-starve-to-die-or-cause-to-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=27638","title":{"rendered":"To starve, to die, or cause to die"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-27639 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/To-starve-to-die-or-cause-to-die-673x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"928\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/To-starve-to-die-or-cause-to-die-673x1024.jpg 673w, http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/To-starve-to-die-or-cause-to-die-197x300.jpg 197w, http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/To-starve-to-die-or-cause-to-die-768x1169.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/To-starve-to-die-or-cause-to-die.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Starving \/ Help Now \/ Millions Are Starving in Bible Lands! &#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today\u2019s headline reads: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/07\/31\/world\/middleeast\/gaza-starvation-aid-israel-netanyahu.html\">Anger Over Starvation in Gaza Leaves Israel Increasingly Isolated<\/a>\u201d. There\u2019s, finally, been much, or some, discussion among \u201cthe powers that be\u201d of Israel\u2019s politics of starvation in Gaza. There\u2019s some anger, some dismay, not enough but some. There\u2019s some disgust, some revulsion, not enough but some. As so often, much of this timidity and \u201cmodesty\u201d results in an articulation that is actually a blurring of meaning. Starvation is not hunger. Hunger is \u201dthe uneasy or painful sensation caused by want of food; craving appetite. Also: the exhausted condition caused by want of food.\u201d Hunger is bad, destructive, and a politics and public policy based on hunger is evil. But hunger is not starvation. Starvation, and these definitions all come from the <em>Oxford English Dictionary<\/em>, or better to starve, means \u201cTo die, or cause to die\u201d. When starve is a transitive verb, it means \u201cto cause to die\u201d, that is, to kill, to murder, by refusing access to food. That\u2019s what\u2019s going on in Gaza. Nothing else. Starvation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Does it matter that children are being starved? Yes. Yes, it does. Does it matter that adults are being starved, adults of all genders? Yes. Yes, it does. Is the world acting as if these deaths and this mass murder actually matters? No. Palestinians are not starving to death. They are being starved. That is a death sentence, for the individuals, families, communities, people and nation. What would you call such a public policy?<\/p>\n<p>(By Dan Moshenberg)<\/p>\n<p>(Image Credit: American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief Artist(s), 1914 &#8211; 1918 \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.edu\/object\/archives\/components\/sova-nmah-ac-0433-ref8638\">Smithsonian Museum<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Starving \/ Help Now \/ Millions Are Starving in Bible Lands! &#8230;&#8221; Today\u2019s headline reads: \u201cAnger Over Starvation in Gaza Leaves Israel Increasingly Isolated\u201d. There\u2019s, finally, been much, or some, discussion among \u201cthe powers that be\u201d of Israel\u2019s politics of starvation in Gaza. There\u2019s some anger, some dismay, not enough but some. There\u2019s some disgust, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[114,5,556,216,1371],"class_list":["post-27638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-dan-moshenberg","tag-gaza","tag-haunts","tag-palestine","tag-starvation","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27638"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27642,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27638\/revisions\/27642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}