From Iran to Gaza: Israel's British-Colonial Playbook of Weaponized Starvation

*From Iran to Gaza: Israel's British-Colonial Playbook of Weaponized Starvation*

When Israeli representatives at human rights forums are confronted with the accusation that starvation is being used as a weapon of genocide, they often react with outrage, as if such a charge were an unforgivable insult.

They respond with deflections like: How could two million people possibly die from hunger?
—another tactic to dodge accountability.

But if we understand Israel as a continuation or offshoot of Western colonialism, the answer becomes quite clear:
Yes—millions can be deliberately killed through managed starvation.

Iran, a country at the forefront of resistance against Israel, knows this reality all too well.

History tells us that during World War I, for two years, under the shadow of a weak central government, British colonial forces orchestrated one of the deadliest famines in Iranian history by hoarding and destroying massive food supplies.

That famine, though rarely discussed in mainstream Western narratives, led to the deaths of over 4 million—and by some estimates up to 9 million—Iranians from hunger, despite Iran having declared neutrality in both World Wars.

And now, history is repeating itself—this time in Gaza, and in a new form—through the ideological descendants of those who engineered Iran’s Great Famine.

But there’s one major difference:

The British did it a century ago in the shadows, while the world was largely unaware.

Israel is doing it now, in broad daylight, with the full backing of the Western world—right in front of everyone’s eyes.

It seems history has now reached its most tragic and absurd chapter:
A dark comedy where past atrocities are replayed, only more brazenly and more publicly.