🍽️ Did You Eat Today?
What we choose (not) to see
📡 On my Radar
Over 1,000 Palestinians have been killed while seeking food since May. Not fighting. Not protesting. Just trying to get food for their families. Many of the dead are children.
You're hungry. Your children are starving. You walk to where aid trucks are distributing basic supplies. And you get shot. By soldiers. From tanks.
How does this happen? Why does this happen? Few in power question why. Israeli officials offer vague statements about "warning shots" and "security threats." But when pressed for specifics about why artillery fire is necessary against civilian crowds seeking food, the explanations vanish.
What kind of calculus allows a democracy to shoot a six-year-old waiting for bread?
Even Israeli nonprofits who initially supported these policies are now calling what is happening in Gaza genocide (after witnessing it for over two years). France and the UK have moved to recognize Palestinian statehood, applying diplomatic pressure. Yet surveys show many Israelis living just miles away never hear this news—their major networks simply don't report on the starvation or killings. Meanwhile the government says that all of this is fake news, no one is going hungry in Gaza (so offensive that even Trump disagrees with it).
It's a familiar pattern of societal numbing.
It happened to us in America where we became disconnected from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan—wars that raged for decades while most of us went about our daily lives, felt no personal cost, asked few questions.
When we don't see the consequences of policy, when they happen "over there" to "other people," we develop a dangerous capacity to look away. And when we finally see what is happening … our anger, our shame, our fear makes us look away.
But we are complicit in this. Our tax dollars, our elected representatives, armaments made in American factories, are directly supporting the starvation that is happening “over there”
There is a lot we can do, but perhaps the easiest … and in some ways the hardest … is to bear witness to the truth.
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