Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spent the day explaining that there is no starvation in Gaza, that international aid organizations have failed Gazans, and that all Israel has done is to remove the cover story that the UN has been using to excuse their faults.
During a visit to the Ramon Air Force Base in the Negev Desert today, Netanyahu pledged to keep aid into Gaza at a minimum, only to “allow the entry of minimal humanitarian supplies.” Was he conceding that Israel had kept aid below the minimum? He can say without blinking that Israel has “done this until now.” So, in Jonathan Swift “Netan-yahu” speak, nothing apparently has changed.
Then he changed the UN report that Israel has been allowing in too few aid trucks (and Israel brags about only averaging 70 trucks/day, or 14% of normal levels). Rather, he explained that the UN is lying: “It says we are not allowing humanitarian supplies to enter. It is allowed. There are secured convoys. There have been all along, but today it is official. There will be no more excuses”—that is, the UN has needed excuses to cover for their maltreatment of Gazans.
