In the Irish potato famine, Ireland exported record quantities of wheat; in the 1943 famine in Bengal, Bengal was exporting masses of rice; in the famine in Ethiopia in the 1980s, Ethiopia bought helicopter gunships with the profit from exporting water melons.
People don't die in famine because there is no food: they die because they can't afford the food there is.
As Layan🍉ayoub🇵🇸 (npub1y4l…z9th) reports, that's what's happening in #Gaza.
#GazaGenocide
https://www.journeyman.cc/layan/posts-output/2026-08-10-The-fruits-we-see/
Simon Brooke
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2026-08-11 14:14:12 UTC
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