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and Jordan, and Saudi Arabia, and the UAE, and Turkey, and China, and Russia, and India, and and and... they're all in the category "every government that has not dared challenge the siege imposed on gaza since 2007".

starvation imposed on gaza by every government that has not dared challenge the siege imposed on gaza since 2007. to starve is always a transitive verb, not only does it have an object, it also always has a subject, that who starves the others. 6/6

gaza is not starving, israel is starving gaza. there is no starvation in gaza, there is starvation imposed upon gaza, starvation imposed by israel, by the united states, by germany, by france, by the eu, 5/

israeli artists, academics, and citizens, kibbutzniks who block aid trucks going into gaza and hold food destruction feasts where they incite their children to stomp on boxes of food captured from aid trucks, feasts captured on video for genocide celebrations. 4/

there are no starving children in gaza, there are starved children in gaza, there are starved adults in gaza, there are starved people of all ages in gaza, there are starved cats and donkeys in gaza—they are all starved by israel, its military, its government, its media, 3/

there is so much food in the world such that startups pop up everyday with ideas to tackle the problem of “food waste”. people don’t starve, they are starved, deprived of nourishment, killed with hunger. 2/

to starve cannot any more be an intransitive verb, and its use as an intransitive verb should be banned. nobody starves on their own in these times, “perish from lack of food”. 1/

Demian DinéYazhi', "my ancestors will not let me forget this", 2020.on show at the Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, part of the exhibition: Indigenous Identities: Here, Now & Always.