Famine is always manmade

With all the produced food that's either thrown away or left to rot, we could feed 130% of all people currently starving. And don't blame Big Agro or The Elite: you and I, the everyday consumers, are the biggest culprits. Because we keep on buying more than we need and leave fruit, bread and vegetables to rot. In total around 40% of all produced food worldwide does not get eaten. 

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Around 28,000 people die from starvation every single day because food is not distributed evenly. And in a few cases tens of thousands of people are deliberately being starved. Yes, a potato disease was one of the factors in The Irish Famine of mid 1900s. But the main reason why over a million Irish people died from starvation, typhus and dysentery around 1850 was English cruelty. Knowing the Irish already suffered from failed potato harvests, the English forcibly took all other food 'to keep our economy going'. i.e. Capitalism caused The Great Famine.

Over a million Irish managed to escape the famine by migrating to the United States. To be treated as a 'race'. Until the seventies signs in US bar- and shop windows would read: "No blacks, no dogs, no Irish".

The similarities with the Palestine-situation are eerie: 'failed harvests' will one day be given as the main reason why many Palestinians died. But everyone with common sense knows the true reason: a deliberate attempt from a colonial oppressor to erase a people. By destroying fields (over 95% of Palestinian farmland has been destroyed by 'the most moral army in the world ever') and pouring concrete into waterwells and murdering any Palestinian who comes close to the sea, the nazis...pardon...zionists...are starving Palestinians on purpose. Survivors will be shipped to countries like Somaliland. Where Palestinians will be treated like outcasts and can only hope to make a living as servants. 

Should every regime that deliberately starves people be punished or does it depend on who the victims are?