The other point you made about rationing in Britain during the war is absolute nonsense, for two very good reasons.

1. Our parents went short to make sure we didn't. Child health didn't suffer, but I hardly ever saw a fat adult up to my sixth year.
2. Britain was a half agrarian half industrial country with over 11,000 miles of coastline and the German blockade was never close to being effective, so our food shortage never came close to the level imposed by Israel on Gaza.

They have inflicted vast damage and won't even allow materials for re-building to reach Gaza, and we've all seen the list of forbidden imports.

Don T.