{"id":121723,"date":"2025-06-07T17:00:25","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T15:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=121723"},"modified":"2025-06-07T08:57:31","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T06:57:31","slug":"07-00-111","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=121723","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Important That We Know the Truth About the Aid Situation in Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>It\u2019s Important That We Know the Truth About the Aid Situation in Gaza<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

Pini Dunner<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Palestinians carry aid supplies which they received from the U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, in the central Gaza Strip, May 29, 2025. REUTERS\/Ramadan Abed<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Heads you win, tails I lose. That\u2019s how it feels watching the world\u2019s reaction to Israel and America\u2019s new food aid model in Gaza.<\/span><\/p>\n

For months, Israel was condemned for not letting enough aid in and for blockading aid until the hostages were released. Now that Israel is letting in food directly \u2014 but cutting the corrupt United Nations and the Hamas terrorists out of the picture \u2014 those same voices are howling even louder.<\/span><\/p>\n

First, the accusation was: \u201cYou\u2019re starving Gaza!\u201d Now, it\u2019s: \u201cYou\u2019re weaponizing aid!\u201d and \u201cYou\u2019re manipulating Gaza\u2019s hunger!\u201d Heads you win, tails I lose. Damned if you do, damned if you don\u2019t. It\u2019s utterly grotesque.<\/span><\/p>\n

The images from Gaza tell the real story. Thousands of hungry people, many of them openly and unabashedly critical of Hamas, lining up at distribution points \u2014 eager to accept boxes of food from the\u00a0Gaza Humanitarian Foundation<\/a>, which is quietly, without fanfare, working with Israeli and American support.<\/span><\/p>\n

Suddenly, we are witnessing a population that\u2019s been exploited and abandoned by Hamas and used as political pawns by the UN finally ready \u2014 and finally able \u2014 to challenge their oppressors.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yet instead of celebrating this breakthrough, the usual chorus of international do-gooders \u2014 all of them card-carrying haters of Israel and America \u2014 are up in arms.<\/span><\/p>\n

The UN leadership is outraged at being usurped from its traditional role as the world\u2019s perpetual busybody. Apparently, if the UN is to be taken at its word, delivering aid outside of Hamas\u2019s control somehow violates humanitarian norms.<\/span><\/p>\n

Even European diplomats are muttering darkly that this new scheme is some kind of Israeli conspiracy.<\/span><\/p>\n

And it goes without saying that academics in distant universities are warning about \u201cthe instrumentalization of aid for war purposes.\u201d Has anyone in all of history ever uttered something quite so ridiculous? In any event, try telling that to the Gazan father, who eagerly thanked \u201ceveryone who helped us\u201d to a reporter on the scene.<\/span><\/p>\n

The hypocrisy is breathtaking. Since the October 7th Hamas-perpetrated atrocity and the war against Hamas that followed, all these same voices have been deafeningly silent as Hamas turned food and medicine into tools of terror. Surely,\u00a0that\u00a0was \u201cthe instrumentalization of aid.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

But they said nothing while Hamas stole international donations in plain sight, extorted desperate families at military checkpoints, and funneled the profits into weapons and ever more violence. Now, as soon as Israel steps in to break that deadly cycle\u2014taking real risks to ensure that Gazan civilians aren\u2019t starved or blackmailed\u2014these critics suddenly find their voices. But instead of using them to support real humanitarian work, they stridently protect the \u201cprinciples\u201d of an aid system that Hamas has been openly using as a cash cow.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s easy to stand in Geneva or New York and patronizingly tut-tut about \u201cneutrality.\u201d It\u2019s much harder to look a starving child in the face and say: \u201cSorry, we can\u2019t give you food unless your terrorist overlords sign off on it,\u201d or \u201cThere\u2019s food for you, but you can\u2019t have it because it\u2019s the Israelis giving it out.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

This is the greatest moral inversion of our times: Israel\u2019s \u201csin\u201d is that it\u2019s doing what every serious humanitarian ought to do: stop the abuse of aid by criminals and ensure that food actually reaches the hungry.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hamas is so eager to keep control, and its international enablers are so equally keen to keep Hamas from being ousted, that a shooting last week at a food collection point quickly became an international incident. The so-called mass casualty event occurred as hundreds of Gazans made their way to the only open distribution center in Rafah.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Hamas-controlled \u201chealth ministry\u201d claimed that 31 people were killed and nearly 200 wounded in the pre-dawn shooting near the site \u2014 and of course, inevitably, Israel was guilty of a deliberate massacre.<\/span><\/p>\n

But even as news outlet after news outlet blindly reported the atrocity, the IDF denied responsibility and later published an audio recording featuring a local Gazan who insisted that it had been Hamas, not Israel, that opened fire. \u201cThey don\u2019t want the people to receive aid,\u201d he told an Israeli officer. \u201cThey want to foil the plan so that the aid will go to them, allowing them to steal it. They\u2019ve gone completely bankrupt.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The Torah in Parshat\u00a0Nasso<\/a>\u00a0teaches us about the Nazir, someone who vows to separate themselves from wine and other mundane aspects of ordinary life for a period of spiritual self-discipline. The Torah says, \u201cfor the crown of his God is upon his head\u201d (Num. 6:7<\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s a powerful image: by abstaining from doing what others do, the Nazir isn\u2019t running away from the world. Instead, they\u2019re being true to themselves \u2014 choosing to do the right thing, even if it means breaking from routine in order to achieve something positive. And for that, they are depicted as having the crown of God on their heads.<\/span><\/p>\n

The commentators add that the Nazir\u2019s vow of abstention is really about reclaiming control. Instead of being pulled in every direction by outside influences \u2014 whether it\u2019s peer pressure, popular opinion, or the desire to fit in \u2014 the Nazir says: \u201cEnough is enough. I will not be ruled by these forces. I will decide my own path.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

That\u2019s precisely what Israel\u2019s new aid model is doing. Israel has finally, and wisely, entered into the status of Nazir. For too long, everything about the \u201caid system\u201d in Gaza has been governed by what everyone else thinks is right and what Israel should or should not be doing or allowing on their borders.<\/span><\/p>\n

But Israel the Nazir has taken a vow of abstention. Instead of working with the UN, they\u2019ve taken a stand. They\u2019re saying: \u201cEnough. We will not let terrorists decide who eats and who starves. We will take control of the situation and do what is right for us and for those who are most in need.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

And yes, it\u2019s messy. The Torah itself acknowledges that the Nazir\u2019s vow isn\u2019t the norm \u2014 it\u2019s a response to a world that the Nazir feels is no longer working for them. But when everything around you is distorted, you\u2019ve no choice but to do something radical to restore balance.<\/span><\/p>\n

So here we are: Israel, with America alongside it, is stepping in to provide real aid \u2014 no strings attached, no financial siphon for Hamas\u2019 tunnels, no middlemen selling precious food that was meant to be free so they can fund terror. And just as every Nazir in history has been seen as odd or extreme, Israel is being seen as venturing outside accepted norms.<\/span><\/p>\n

But the Torah says that when you stand apart from the mob and refuse to play by their twisted rules, you wear a crown of holiness: \u201cThe crown of his God is upon his head.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

No Nazir was ever perfect. That\u2019s a given. Neither is Israel perfect, nor is this new system. But to those who can\u2019t see past their own dogmas, who only find their voices when Israel acts to fix the mess they ignored \u2013maybe it\u2019s time to take a lesson from the Nazir. Be independent. Worry about your spiritual and moral responsibilities. And whether the rest of the world turns their noses up is unimportant.<\/span><\/p>\n

Because when you do that, it\u2019s heads I win, and tails you don\u2019t lose.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The author is a writer<\/strong> in Beverly Hills, California.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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