By William Kilpatrick, The Stream - Much of the world’s media now seems to agree that Israel is deliberately starving the people of Gaza. Many Catholic media outlets are saying the same thing. This is a very serious charge, and I think Catholics should be careful about jumping to conclusions about this complicated situation... Not that there is no food crisis in Gaza. There is. Yet it’s widely acknowledged by Mid-East experts that if the people of Gaza aren’t getting enough to eat, the fault lies mostly with Hamas, not Israel. For years, Hamas has been intercepting aid supply trucks, stealing the cargo, and using it to feed their own families and fighters. Then they take what they don’t need and sell it to ordinary Gazans at exorbitant prices. ...