In his recent piece for The Free Press, Michael Ames accuses others—journalists, NGOs, international aid agencies—of engaging in rhetorical manipulation. Yet the irony is almost unbearable: his own article is a masterclass in precisely that. Ames purports to clarify, to cut through the noise and deliver a sobering verdict on what he calls “The Gaza Famine Myth.” But what he’s really doing is laundering moral cowardice through the language of skepticism. Let’s be extremely clear here. This is not an honest effort to parse facts. It is a carefully calculated attempt to recast a humanitarian...