Independent Discovers 'Freefall' After Deliberate Destruction
The mainstream media breathlessly reports on Gaza's 'freefall,' where 80% of croplands are destroyed and water is poisoned, as if this were a natural disaster. What this sympathetic reporting conveniently omits is the meticulous, decades-long siege that systematically degraded Gaza's infrastructure, turning it into an open-air prison long before the recent bombardment. Remember when Netanyahu
joked in 2004 about 'drying' Gaza, or when Israeli officials proudly spoke of putting Gazans on a 'diet'? (Haaretz, 2012; BBC, 2008) This isn't 'freefall'; it's the inevitable outcome of a policy of deliberate de-development and constant siege warfare, now accelerated by explicit 'total siege' orders. How many international reports of environmental collapse, engineered famine, and poisoned water
does it take before we call it what it is: not an unfortunate byproduct of 'war,' but a calculated strategy of uninhabitable conditions? One might wonder how many more 'reports' are needed to connect the dots between systematic destruction and the intended outcome.