Concern over how Israel will respond to Iran’s foiled missile and drone attack on Israel last weekend has deflected international attention from Israel’s deadly and destructive war on Gaza.

Nothing deters US President Joe Biden from following the policy he adopted on October 7 when southern Israel was attacked by Hamas. Last week, in recognition of Arab Heritage Month, a White House statement belatedly admitted that US Arab and Muslim citizens felt “pain”!

Seven hundred and thirty Israeli academics have signed a petition calling on their government to “take urgent measures to prevent starvation in the Gaza Strip [before] the humanitarian catastrophe gets out of control, causes mass death and becomes an indelible stain”.

Israel has not only slain more than 32,000 Gazans, robbing the narrow coastal strip of men, women and children who had consigned their lives and their futures to never-ending hostile occupation, but Israel has also stolen from Gazans literacy, academic and cultural life, proofs o

Seven hundred and thirty Israeli academics have signed a petition calling on their government to “take urgent measures to prevent starvation in the Gaza Strip [before] the humanitarian catastrophe gets out of control, causes mass death and becomes an indelible stain”.

Starvation has come to northern Gaza, which has not received food aid in sufficient quantities to fend off famine. More than a dozen children and one elderly mam have died of malnutrition and dehydration over the past ten days.

Western leaders, politicians and media have marked the second anniversary of Russia’s war against Ukraine with visits to the country’s capital, commiseration over deaths and destruction, and limited injections of funds.

Last Saturday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told the Munich Security Conference that the post-Gaza war scenario provides an “extraordinary opportunity” for Arab governments to open relations with Israel.

Angered over the Biden administration’s supine support of Israel’s war on Gaza, Arab American community leaders in the swing state of Michigan postponed this week’s virtual discussion with US Vice President Kamala Harris.