Haviv Rettig Gur

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There have been tremendous lies told about Israel’s war. That doesn’t mean the threat of starvation isn’t real. It is. My latest in @TheFP discusses new research on the price of flour in Gaza, and why it’s a real cause for concern. thefp.com/p/the-price-of…

The price of flour shows the growing hunger crisis in Gaza. Important from @AmitSegal in @TheFP: thefp.com/p/the-price-of…

Hamas doesn’t want the war to end. It wants a reprieve so it can recover for more war. Hamas does everything it can, murder, theft and neverending intimidation, to disrupt aid distribution. Anyone who talks about famine in Gaza and of Israel’s manifest responsibility to prevent…

Israeli journalist @HavivRettigGur: After 22 months of false or misleading reports in Western media, Gaza is now actually approaching catastrophic levels of hunger. “We are very close to real, actual, desperate hunger in Gaza… It's hard to convince Israelis of that because…

הבהרות לגבי העדויות ש-@david_lisovtsev העלה: א. בחודש יוני אכן היתה ירידת מחירים, כנראה הודות לפתיחת GHF. היא לא נמשכה זמן רב, והדיווחים האנקדוטליים מהשבוע האחרון הם אכן קטסטרופליים. >

Holy cow.

Every day, the @UN offers up new excuses for why it isn't distributing available aid to people in need. The people of Gaza don't need more excuses; they need to eat. It's time for the UN to stop letting the perfect be the enemy of the good and work with us to feed more people…

Gaza may well be approaching a real hunger crisis. Shocked to be reading this from me? I don’t blame you. Let’s break down why, unlike past lies about the situation in Gaza, new research is real cause for concern, and what it means for Israel. Yesterday, @YannayASpitzer, an…

Folks, I need to inform you that there is very concerning data regarding the food situation in Gaza. Firstly, let me just that that as someone who supports Israel I anticipate many on my side will be skeptical of this and I totally understand why. Throughout the war you have…

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Yes, Hasan Piker has outed himself as a simple antisemite, but ignore that for a moment. There's something much more interesting happening here: The "proposal," as though new and groundbreaking, that Israeli Jews will one day get up and flee if they're just terrorized and…

"The old liberal defense of Israel was contingent on the West believing in itself. The moment that belief faltered, Zionism lost its most powerful rhetorical shield." Link to full article below

Hussein is a fascinating and original thinker on the Middle East. You’ll learn something every time you read him.

Israel extradited someone to the US (on ransomware charges I think) as recently as March. Look it up. Darryll Cooper is lying. He does it a lot. It’s that simple. The interesting question isn’t why an ideologue might lie, it’s why his listeners are so eager to be lied to.

We’ve seen this a thousand times and we’ll see it a thousand more. There is nothing anyone can do for Gaza that Hamas won’t undo. If a ceasefire comes, as I hope it will, Hamas will use it to plan more of this same kind of war. If GHF collapses and all aid returns to UN hands,…

I don’t think Glenn Greenwald likes me. Here’s the problem. When he says I fanatically defend Israel, what does he mean? Does he mean that the only thing I defend uncompromisingly - the survival of millions of Jews through Israel’s founding who could not have been saved any…

What broke the Middle East? It isn't a crisis of internal Islamic failure, as conservative thinkers argue, nor a crisis forged and sustained purely by Western imperialism, colonialism, capitalism and the other nefarious isms of the left-wing lexicon. It is something stranger. >>

I’ve come to love @TheFP for its clarity and fearlessness. It isn’t afraid to question orthodoxies, to speak plainly and honestly or to dig a little deeper than the usual run of debate. It’s an honor and a privilege to be joining its ranks.