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There is a Black Lives Matter discussion from way back called Bob Deserves Food. In this analogy, everyone seated at the table except Bob has been served a full plate, but Bob's place setting remains empty despite having ordered the same food as everyone else. Bob states that he is hungry, and deserves to be able to eat with everyone else.

The table replies, everyone deserves food. Yes, a nice sentiment, but currently BOB is the only person without food, so maybe we need to focus on feeding Bob?

But... Bob doesn't exist in a vacuum. Bob does deserve food. So does the unhoused guy rifling through the restaurant's dumpster. So does the child in a food insecure family. So does the Native couple living in a food desert. So does the refugee woman living in an encampment as her home is obliterated by an army.

Bob deserves food. So do all of these other hungry people who also are not being served a plate. Bob is very visible to the others sitting at the table, and likely his problem of not being served his meal will be resolved long before any of these other people are granted a full belly. That doesn't stop Bob from being hungry right now. And Bob getting the meal the waiter missed doesn't resolve the problem of the other examples still starving.

After all, the only way out of world hunger is to make sure everyone is fed. That includes Bob. And it includes all the others, too.

You should read up on Yehuda Hiss who was the Chief Pathologist at Abu Kabir who was found to be taking organs from Palestinian corpses without permission and using them for research or selling them to medical schools were substantiated by the Israeli government.

There's also a book by Meira Weiss, an Israeli doctor, called "Over Their Dead Bodies" that details how organs taken from dead Palestinians were utilised in medical research at Israeli universities’ medical faculties and were transplanted into Jewish-Israeli patients’ bodies.

Euro-Med Monitor has also been raising the alarm on this. They've been asking for an investigation into how Israel has been unlawfully keeping the dead bodies of hundreds of Palestinians in its morgues or "Numbers Cemeteries" which are mass graves that are kept in subfreezing temps marked only by metal number plates.

Israel is the biggest hub for the illegal global trade in human organs. In 2019 the Israeli Supreme Court authorized the military to withhold the dead bodies of Palestinians to be used as leverage and by 2021 the Knesset had passed laws that allowed those bodies to be held for broader reasons.

Since the genocide began, so many Palestinians have talked about their family members being returned to them and missing vital organs