"So, no "shoah", no holocaust, and no starvation in Gaza."
The obscene proposal that one people should calculate another peoples' calorific intake in order to keep them alive while operating a blockade that is already affecting the health and well being of the Palestinian population, particularly its poorest sections, has echoes of past behaviour of despots and dictators - it is as old and as recent as the Gulags and Treblinka.
It certainly seems to be a seriously considered policy of the Israeli regime, and there is little doubt that is their intention to put it fully into practice.
"a senior Israeli official described Israel's planned response. "The idea," he said, "is to put the Palestinians on a diet, but not to make them die of hunger.""
http://mondoweiss.net/2012/10/israels-starvation-diet-formula-in-gaza-and-the-expansion-of-the-dahiya-doctrine.html
Should the Israeli authorities decide to refine their blockade on the basis of the required calorie intake of the Palestinian people, starvation is not only a possibility, but it is an inevitibility - shortages = rising prices = the poorer sections of the population doing without.
Amnesty has pointed out the hardships already being experienced by farmers whose land has been cut in half by the 'Berlin Wall'and who are unable to obtain farm equipment and so are unable to cultivate their produce either to feed their families or to sell. many of these people are already on the breadline, and any acceleration of that situation will bring them to the point of starvation (and there is no knowing where this will end now the Israeli leadership has decided to climb into bed with the ultra nationalists) - such stuff as are holocausts and shoahs made of.
Jim Carroll