How to stop Israel from starving Gaza
Palestinians struggle to secure lentil soup at a food distribution point in Gaza City on 2 August 2025, as the World Health Organization warns that malnutrition is reaching ‘alarming levels’
Jeffrey Sachs and Sybil Fares write in Al Jazeera on 4 September 2025:
Israel, with the complicity of the United States, is committing genocide in Gaza through the mass starvation of the population, as well as direct mass murders and the physical destruction of Gaza’s infrastructure. Israel does the dirty work. The US government funds it and provides diplomatic cover through its veto power at the United Nations. Palantir, through Lavender, provides the artificial intelligence for efficient mass murder. Microsoft, through Azure cloud services, and Google and Amazon, through the Nimbus initiative, supply core tech infrastructure for the Israeli army.
This marks 21st-century war crimes as an Israel-US public-private partnership.
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Israel’s thuggish government now counts solely on US support, but even that may not be there for long. Despite Trump’s intransigence and the US government’s attempts to stifle pro-Palestinian voices, 58 percent of Americans want the UN to recognise the State of Palestine, compared with only 33 percent who do not. Moreover, 60 percent of Americans oppose Israel’s actions in Gaza.
Here are practical steps that the world can take.
First, Turkiye has set the correct course by ending all economic, trade, shipping, and air links with Israel. Israel is currently a rogue state, and Turkiye is right to treat it as such until Israeli-created mass starvation ends, and a State of Palestine is admitted to the UN as the 194th member, with the borders of June 4, 1967. Other states should immediately follow Turkiye’s lead.
Second, all UN member states that have not yet done so should recognise the State of Palestine. So far, 147 countries recognise Palestine. Dozens more should do so at the UN summit on Palestine on September 22, even over the vociferous objections of the US.Third, the Arab signatories to the Abraham Accords – Bahrain, Morocco, Sudan, and the United Arab Emirates – should suspend their diplomatic relations with Israel until the Gaza siege ends and the State of Palestine is admitted to the UN.
Third, the Arab signatories to the Abraham Accords – Bahrain, Morocco, Sudan, and the United Arab Emirates – should suspend their diplomatic relations with Israel until the Gaza siege ends and the State of Palestine is admitted to the UN.
Fourth, the UN General Assembly (UNGA), by a vote of two-thirds present and voting, should suspend Israel from the UNGA until it lifts its murderous siege on Gaza, based on the precedent of suspending South Africa during its apartheid regime. The US has no veto in the UNGA.