Hunger in Gaza reaches ‘tipping point’ under Israel’s offensive as children face lifelong impacts of malnutrition

The “window to prevent mass death is rapidly closing, and for many it’s already too late,” one senior humanitarian official told NBC News.

Liberals two years dragged their feet until they could safely say “There’s nothing we can do” and then pivoted to a middling “We feel bad about this but there’s nothing we can do” stance. Hey, look, it’s 2009/2019 all over again.

I will say that one upshot of Mamdani winning in NYC on a “Stop the genocide a little bit” platform is that Richie Torries may have cost himself his lifelong sinecure in a safer-than-safe House seat. But that’s a single vote in a body swimming with AIPAC loyalists and anti-Arab eliminationists.

As a matter of foreign policy, we still seem entirely on board with starving every recalcitrant nation’s people, from Afghanistan to Libya and Bolivia to Haiti. I don’t see that changing in my lifetime. Certainly not when we’ve been subjecting Cuba and Venezuela and Iran to decades of sanctions explicitly intended to bring about social decay and mass death.

Moderate Democrats will shift their rhetoric from “We fully support our allies in their campaign to bring Freedom and Liberty!” to “We are distressed to learn the outcomes of our foreign policy were what we originally intended.” But the policies themselves? Who is actually going to vote against sending another batch of bunker buster bombs and hellfire missiles to Israel? Who is going to lift the ban on cargo shipping to Havana or unfreeze state assets to pay for relief and rebuilding supplies in Port-au-Prince or Kabul? Who is going to stand up in the Senate and block a State Department appointee intent on sending another round of filibustering mercenaries into Nicaragua or Venezuela or Bolivia?

This won’t end until the leadership of these parties is removed from power.