Dear Assembly Member Mamdani,
What a perfectly fascinating take on selective outrage! Let me help you with an equally compelling reversal of your moral calculus:
"If Israel were a European city and its people were European, the world would have hit the panic button long ago. There'd be emergency UN sessions, military intervention, wall-to-wall media coverage, and global outrage. The first rocket to fall would trigger immediate retaliatory action, let alone an invasion that kidnapped innocent citizens, raped and murdered families in front of other family members, and put crying babies in ovens. But because it's Israel, the world watches in silence as I criticize them for feeding the population that attacked them."
How absolutely extraordinary that you've managed to ignore the inconvenient reality that Israel has taken MORE UNPRECEDENTED MEASURES TO AVOID CIVILIAN CASUALTIES than any military in recorded history¹. These include advance warnings through phone calls, text messages, and dropped leaflets; regular temporary humanitarian corridors with four-hour daily evacuation windows; selective targeting with aerial surveillance to verify military targets; "roof knocking" with non-lethal warning munitions before strikes; precision-guided munitions to minimize collateral damage; and the creation of designated humanitarian zones². NO OTHER COUNTRY IN HISTORY has warned its enemies before attacking, let alone fed them during an active war.
Between January and July 2024 alone, Israel facilitated 28,734 trucks and airdrops conveying 478,229 tons of food to Gaza³. That's 3,163 calories per person per day⁴ - FORTY PERCENT HIGHER THAN INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN STANDARDS. Even during the lowest supply month (February), when fierce combat was occurring, 1,508 calories per person per day were delivered⁵. More recently, COGAT reports that over 2,600 trucks carrying humanitarian aid crossed from Israel into Gaza between May 19 and August 5, 2025⁶, with 1,200 aid trucks entering in just one week of July 2025⁷.
Let me put this in historical perspective since you seem confused about precedent: Name me ONE OTHER COUNTRY IN WORLD HISTORY that was invaded by an enemy force and then proceeded to feed the entire population of the attacking nation during an active war. I'll wait.
The United States has invaded dozens of countries throughout its history⁸ - did America feed the German population during WWII? Did we send daily food trucks to Japan after Pearl Harbor? When the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded China during the Boxer Rebellion, did they establish humanitarian corridors? Absolutely not - they pillaged Beijing and North China, executed unknown numbers of people, and looted palaces while inflicting incalculable cultural damage⁹.
Here's what's particularly rich about your moral posturing: Hamas has repeatedly confiscated humanitarian aid, taxing and diverting aid to support their continued operations and fund the war effort¹⁰. So Israel is not only feeding the population of Gaza, they're feeding the very organization that continues attacking them with stolen aid money! The UN itself reports that 88 PERCENT of aid trucks are being looted along routes¹¹, yet somehow this is Israel's fault?
But wait, there's more delicious irony! Before the war, between 500 and 600 truckloads of aid entered Gaza daily¹², yet more than half of its residents were food insecure and under the poverty line according to the UN¹³. So Hamas couldn't even feed their own people properly when they controlled all resources, but somehow it's Israel's fault during an active war they started?
Your selective outrage is particularly fascinating given that Hamas prioritizes using civilians as human shields and operating within civilian infrastructure¹⁴ over actually distributing aid to their own people. Maybe address the elephant in the room: why does a terrorist organization steal food from starving children to fund rocket attacks?
Here's a revolutionary concept: perhaps if Hamas hadn't invaded Israel, raped women, murdered families, and kidnapped babies, there wouldn't be a war at all. But expecting personal responsibility from terrorists or their apologists seems to be asking too much.
The real question isn't why the world isn't panicking about Gaza - it's why you're not marveling at the unprecedented humanitarian response from a country under active attack. But I suppose "Israel Takes Unprecedented Steps to Feed Population That Tried to Exterminate Them" doesn't fit your victim narrative quite as neatly.
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