His right arm is resting on a stack of free pies delivered by the same Israeli subsidiary of a well-known American pizza chain. The marketing adage on the spine of the boxes reads: “For the love of pizza.”Ī companion image posted on Instagram stars a balding, portly Israeli soldier with a high-powered weapon slung across a shoulder. The soldiers, clad in green, are smiling. The first picture features two young Israeli soldiers, each carrying a tower of pizza boxes – a gift apparently from a popular pizza franchise. Still, this past week I came across a number of jarring images that, when considered side by side, tell us a lot about the sick scale of crimes we are witnessing being committed in Gaza and beyond as well as the disparate circumstances of the victims and the perpetrators of those horrors. Now, in light of the outrages that Palestinians have endured and will continue to endure as Israel goes about annihilating Gaza with relentless ferocity, pizza might seem a picayune, even distasteful, starting point for a column that will invoke two blunt words throughout: genocide and famine. ![]() Keep reading list of 4 items list 1 of 4 Israeli forces arrest dozens in raid on UN shelter in Gaza City list 2 of 4 Israeli ministers join convention calling for Gaza resettlement list 3 of 4 Qatar’s prime minister in US for Gaza truce negotiations list 4 of 4 Qatar PM says ‘good progress’ in Gaza truce, captives negotiations end of list
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