Wonder if anyone on the supposed 'left' in the liberal or so-called blue no matter who crowd would condemn this.

You know, someone who openly is bragging about committing further genocide and war crimes on behalf of the rich and powerful who control crapitalism.

https://consortiumnews.com/2024/08/09/palestinians-demand-icc-arrest-warrant-for-smotrich/

“The ministry further affirmed that such [a] statement is considered a direct disregard for international legitimacy decisions and international consensus on protecting civilians and securing their basic humanitarian needs,” a ministry statement said on Thursday, according to Al Jazeera. 

Israel’s finance minister has suggested that starving 2 million people in #Gaza “might be justified and moral.”

The world is rightly outraged – and should also be reminded this is the Israeli government’s current policy.

Read @astroehlein’s Daily Brief: https://t.co/nCEWx6vSN2 pic.twitter.com/P0DxMgvHgq

— Human Rights Watch (@hrw) August 8, 2024

The controversy arose because of comments Smotrich, a far-right politician, made about humanitarian aid at a conference on Monday. 

“We bring in aid because there is no choice,” he said. “We can’t, in the current global reality, manage a war. Nobody will let us cause 2 million civilians to die of hunger, even though it might be justified and moral, until our hostages are returned.”

Critics argued that Smotrich’s remarks conveyed not only indifference to Palestinian suffering and death but also, more specifically, an attempt to justify Israel’s documented practice of blocking or disrupting aid from reaching the Gaza Strip. 

Our Minister of Finance and Minister within the Ministry of Defense, Bezalel Smotrich, in his own words:

“Nobody will allow us to let 2 million civilians die of hunger, even though it might be justified and moral until our hostages are returned.”

All the way to The Hague. https://t.co/6KhOsG8rmO

— Peace Now (@peacenowisrael) August 5, 2024

Human rights groups say that Israel has obstructed aid during its 10-month siege of the enclave, which has killed many tens of thousands of Palestinians and displaced the vast majority of the population. Some groups have accused Israel of using starvation as a “weapon of war,” which is a war crime.