Famine doesn’t always look like dry, cracked earth or sunken faces in grainless villages. Sometimes, it’s artificially manufactured, strategic, a tool, or a weapon. And today, it’s wearing a suit and speaking at a press conference.
The Third Rider has arrived. Forget the horse; he’s riding a military tank.
The famine he brings isn’t for his people. No. This is an organized famine, exported like weapons or spyware. It’s delivered with bureaucratic precision and wrapped in a narrative of “self-defense.”
Welcome to Gaza.
I’m not a biblical scholar. But I’ve read enough prophecy and history to spot a pattern. There is starvation, poverty, disease, and death delivered by Mr. Netanyahu. He does it with drones, tanks, and embargoes.
I took a break from writing this piece, so I opened CNBC this morning. Right there, in grayscale doom font:
“Worst-case scenario of famine” unfolding in Gaza under Israel’s offensive, the global authority on hunger says.
That’s not an exaggeration. That’s the UN. And yet, nothing, no urgent summit, no mass sanctions. Just more Western handwringing and cautious press releases from the same governments that send billions in aid to Israel with the other hand.
Let’s be clear: this isn’t a war. It’s not “complicated.” It’s not a “conflict” that just needs “both sides” to sit down. What’s happening is genocide in broad daylight.
And the man leading it is Benjamin Netanyahu.
But he’s not acting alone. The United States? Enabler-in-chief. The EU? Too tangled in its hypocrisy to act. Everyone is watching, issuing statements, like there’s a quota of paragraphs you have to hit before you can acknowledge a war crime.
Meanwhile, Gaza is running out of everything.
Food, clean water, medical supplies, shelter, oxygen. Children are being starved while world leaders draft “concerned” tweets.
You might say, Well, at least people are protesting.
Yes. There are protests all across Europe, massive ones. Encouraging, sure. But what happens after the cards are put down? The governments these protestors are trying to pressure are doing the political version of sticking their fingers in their ears and humming. Especially here in the Netherlands, where consensus is a religion and action is heresy.
The Dutch parliament can’t agree on anything stronger than “we’re very concerned.” It’s like watching people argue over the color of the lifeboats while the ship sinks. Maybe they’re hoping the issue will just vanish—poof, if they talk long enough.
Why?
Because everyone is afraid of Netanyahu. Afraid of being labeled antisemitic. Not wanting to upset the diplomatic status quo or being too terrified of any consequences. But let me ask you this: are the Israeli protestors antisemitic? Are Jewish human rights groups antisemitic? Am I for writing this?
This is how silence becomes complicity.
Netanyahu doesn’t fear international law. He knows the game all too well. Impunity has been grandfathered in; he acts like a man who’s seen the world let worse men get away with more. And he might be right.
Because for all the never again talk, what’s happening looks very familiar. Just with better public relations. No cattle cars this time. No barbed-wire camps. Just starvation from the sky, hospitals reduced to rubble, aid trucks turned back, and entire neighborhoods flattened in minutes.
This time it’s faster. The technology of death has improved. The silence around it, that’s timeless.
When the European Council met on June 26, they called for a ceasefire. They demanded humanitarian access. It was a strong-sounding statement. And then… nothing. It vanished into the void, swallowed by the 24-hour news cycle and diplomatic inactivity.
Sanctions? Still being “considered,” statements are Plentiful.
Action? Don’t hold your breath. Not in Gaza, you can’t.
Famine is here, but this isn’t divine punishment. This is man-made. Policy-driven, funded, and justified!
Who allowed it to happen? The answer is simple: almost everyone in power.