The starving of hostages is atrocious, but I am curious, would you be more enraged over it if the Israelis did this to a Palestinian captive, all the while Palestinians were actively driving Israel out of Jerusalem with the use of the sort of overwhelming military force that Israel is using today? Imagine if the U.S. supported Palestine instead. How would you feel?
I can't think of the ongoing atrocities in that region without thinking of Bob Dylan's, "With God on Our Side," and wonder, why didn't God just do this to the Romans, if it was truly the way he wanted the Holy Land reclaimed in the name of his chosen people. It is hard to imagine a more arrogant and solipsistic claim that a people could make. I get it, it is quite a rhetorical device, but quite unknowable and beyond proof to the point of absurdity if you examine it closely and don't just, "take it on faith," that God cares about some peoples more than others.
If you believe the Palestinians are terrorized by their own State, made into victims by their own leaders, brainwashed into supporting it, where do you question the reverse? Where do you begin to question the tactics of Israel to secure victory, and question their definition of a just war? Because if peace is only secured through eradication, through treating the Palestinians like they are vermin, the Israeli ethnostate is possibly the scariest Nation-State example of the abused becoming the abusers in recent history, especially as an American, viewing the U.S. as its enabler.
And I'm sure you will have plenty of apologetics for it, and I'm sure you can defend it with the Old Testament. I trust your logic in doing so will be valid as you know this area of the world, its recent history, and Scripture much better than I do - but I am really struggling to see any form of good arising from the ongoing evils in that part of the globe. Even if this is the extermination of a terrorist state, and the exile of a captive population, and this is history repeating itself in some form - it is blatantly obvious that it has nothing to do with justice.
How much are American corporations making off of every bomb dropped? Off of all of the fuel for the carnage? How much do developers stand to make in reconstruction, development, and privatization of that prime real estate? And those concentrated profits are all funded by the socialized debt carried by our financial system, which has weaponized the constitutional system of our mutual defense into an apparatus for its monetary and proprietary hegemony. But I'm sure all that is just convenient coincidence.