Was there a famine in Gaza? The top expert answers ┃Alex de Waal

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• LE

  @leonidkrimsky954 · 6 days ago

  These so called experts told the public that gazans were dying of starvation and now they are saying that they meant they have no evidence of anyone dying but only of “experience” of starvation. Ridiculous.

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• JO

  @jonathanwatkins447 · 6 days ago (edited)

  Noam. These talks you have are so good. Well done for getting these talks available for us to see. Its a pity most people wont see this. Its amazing how these guys dont understand what  they say have such an impact against Israel and all jews around the world. Your interviews are so fair.  Its great to see. Please keep up the great work. Im an American living in Israel and it just makes me so proud to see American jews care so much as you do.

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• CO

  @cousingreg7480 · 6 days ago

  Noam, you are providing an enormously valuable public service with interviews like this. It’s remarkable how quickly the arguments for “starvation”, “genocide”, etc. immediately crumple under any scrutiny. Keep up the good work.

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• GE

  @geek321 · 6 days ago

  &quot;it was a reversal not present in any of the famines I&apos;ve studied&quot;...<br><br>BECAUSE IT WAS NOT A FAMINE!

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• OR

  @orochi235 · 6 days ago

  This guy sure starts stammering quickly when you ask him anything substantive

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• GI

  @gillisthom · 6 days ago

  It is almost Kafkaesque to say that the fact that the threat of famine was turned around so quickly just proves the threat of famine.

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• AR

  @AriShapiro · 6 days ago

  Infuriating. In summary: <br>1) Famine level 5 was declared without evidence of deaths for the purpose of possibly preventing something that they had no evidence for what was happening anyway. Even though the IPC model said that level 5 is an indicator of deaths (the worst level of famine) this level of deaths was never reached.<br>2) Famine isn&apos;t just defined as starvation and death, it&apos;s also humiliation. (How, exactly, do you measure humiliation?) <br>3) Data wasn&apos;t available. The surveys that were taken were bad. There was little or no visual (photographic) evidence of famine, but the IPC and others declared it just to be safe, then patted themselves on the back when it was determined that it wasn&apos;t happening.<br>4) Another researcher declared that there were 60,000+ famine deaths already (far more than combat deaths) based on bad inference, yet the other famine researchers didn&apos;t discredit this person or his methods.<br><br>This researcher&apos;s continued declarations of &quot;we don&apos;t know, we don&apos;t have the data&quot; is in direct contrast with &quot;there was famine there&quot;. It can&apos;t be both.

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• MR

  @MrRyan26 · 6 days ago

  Noam just want you to know i&apos;m an Australian left wing dude in his 20&apos;s that is pretty involved in politics and I&apos;m trying my best to learn as much as I can on this topic so I can help fight against the dangerous antisemitism that is rising on the left and your videos on this topic are some of the best to listen too in between reading books and doing written research, your show is a good way too wind down at the end of the day, thank you.

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• HE

  @HesderOleh · 6 days ago

  I can&apos;t believe that Alex had accused Noam of having a semantic debate, when that was exactly what the debate was! That just drove me insane

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• JA

  @JamesLBass · 6 days ago (edited)

  What would be great is if we had scientists, journalists, politicians, &quot;experts&quot; who aren&apos;t activists.

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• SH

  @shmuelrosenthal6661 · 2 days ago

  Watching this interview was humiliating. Which means you are causing me to starve. I am now dead. Thanks a lot.

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• MI

  @mikewex · 6 days ago

  Noam is waaayyyy too humble. Sharp as knife, but I guess that&apos;s his strength, coming from a modest honest place

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