Afrasianet - By: Dr. Hisham Okal - Professor of Crisis Management and International Relations -  When politics lies, famine becomes a "conspiracy" and hostages are "propaganda" in Washington, no voice is louder than the voice of democracy... Unless he comes from Tel Aviv, the decisions are cooked on a slow fire: anxious statements, then more anxious statements, and then deep sleep. As for Palestinian blood? A mere side story in the evening bulletins does not spoil the friendship of alliances or change the rules of the game.

Since Oslo, the United States has mastered the fast-food game of the two-state solution: protocol images, elegant signatures, flashy promises, but on the ground, there are zero actions. What is new today is that Washington is no longer even pretending to be neutral.

The U.S. ambassador to Israel freely tweets on the X platform, attacking the United Nations and accusing it of corruption and incompetence, while the organization's report on the Gaza famine in Israel's eyes is a "lie" The blame game begins: "It is not we who are besieging Gaza, but Egypt, Jordan and some Arab countries!"

But the facts don't lie forever. The United Nations and humanitarian organizations assert that the Gaza Strip needs at least 600 aid trucks a day to meet the minimum needs of the population. How much Israel will allow in? A small fraction – sometimes about a hundred trucks – while marketing this as a great humanitarian achievement. At the same time, it is trying to promote the narrative that the crossings and obstacles are the work of the Arabs while they control the crossings, the sea and the sky. This is an Israeli decision par excellence in which the language of "security" is used as a pretext for mass starvation.

In this gloomy atmosphere, Donald Trump looks out to add a dose of excitement: "The living hostages are less than twenty." No one corrects the number and no one asks about its source. Israel does not confirm, Hamas does not deny, and Washington remains silent. In the end, the hostage file has turned into fuel in a propaganda battle, and the biggest victim is an entire people who are exterminated under the title of "bringing them back alive." It is as if the lives of two million people depend on an election number announced by Trump in a passing speech.

What is worse is that Hamas, despite its declaration or initiative to stop the war at more than one stage, has only reaped a new invasion. An invasion presented in the Israeli narrative as a "victory", when in reality it is more blood, rubble, and hostility that accumulates and generates new resistance in each cycle of violence. Or will it reproduce hatred and conflict for decades to come?

In Tel Aviv, daily demonstrations by the families of the hostages fill the streets. They shout against Netanyahu, demand the rescue of their loved ones, criticize the government. But have they succeeded in changing the convictions of the extreme right, which controls the political scene? Most likely, not all of this looks more like a democratic decoration in front of the world's cameras. Behind the scenes of the government, the right is threatening to withdraw, and the fall of the government means that Netanyahu is in the hands of the judiciary, but the scene remains blurry because the organic link between Washington and Tel Aviv prevents any real review or serious accountability.

Even more ironic is that Israel denies UN reports of famine and accuses the Arabs of the blockade while Washington continues to make statements of concern, politics is turning into an absurd theater: Israel is playing the victim, Trump is issuing uncertain figures, and in fact Gaza is starving to death under bombardment and blockade and the world is watching. Here a sharp angle asks the question:

Are we waiting for an American administration – whether it is the returning Trump administration or any administration that lives on the oxygen of the lobbies – to stop the massacre? Or should we ask a more ironic question: If Netanyahu's government falls tomorrow, will Tel Aviv try him as a war criminal? Or will it award him the "National Security Hero" medal with a new lie from Trump about the number of hostages?