Post-election, Team Biden finally slams a bogus claim about famine in Gaza

Team Biden is slamming a report that warns of famine in northern Gaza.

What a difference an election makes.

The report Monday by the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (an independent outfit created with Uncle Sam’s support) claimed 65,000-75,000 people lack access to sufficient supplies of food.

“Israel’s near-total blockade of humanitarian and commercial food supplies” has triggered mass starvation in northern Gaza, FEWS Net preached — fresh fodder for Israel-haters to sling unhinged accusations about the Jewish state perpetrating “genocide.”  

Sorry, there’s no “near-total blockade,” and never has been.

Nor, per Israeli and UN estimates, are there 65,000 people in northern Gaza (let alone starving ones) but less than 15,000.

The FEWS NET alert “relies on outdated population estimates, and has methodological limitations based on the availability of data,” a US Agency for International Development spokesman said.

“At a time when inaccurate information is causing confusion and accusations, it is irresponsible to issue a report like this,” Ambassador to Israel Jack Lew fumed.

That’s been true before, too: Another FEWS Net report this year similarly raised famine alarms, based on numbers that also turned out to be garbage.

Yet the Biden-Harris folks — with an eye on pro-Hamas voters — nonetheless ranted about Israel’s “over-the-top” response to Hamas’ war.

Indeed, in a last-minute bid for the anti-Israel vote just before the election, Team Biden threatened to halt yet more weapons shipments to Israel if the IDF didn’t let in more aid.  

Such threats only further embolden Hamas, Iran and Israel’s other enemies.

Gazans caught in a war inevitably will find it hard to find food, especially since Hamas regularly steals aid shipments, and relief groups aren’t even willing to assign drivers to deliver the shipments, fearing they’ll be attacked and robbed by the terrorists or criminals.

Yet the answer isn’t to blast Israel and demand it end its efforts to eliminate Hamas, as President Biden and Veep Kamala Harris did all year.

The answer’s to help Israel eliminate the terrorists as quickly as possible.

Indeed, if Team Biden had called out the phony reports of famine and “genocide” from the start, and fully backed Israel’s defensive war, the fighting might well have ended by now.

On the bright side: A new administration takes office next month, and Washington will stop trying to make nice with Israel’s enemies, including their propaganda wings.