James Maslow
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She's like, well, that's a little strange how she not starting with the baby is.
And then the brother, completely healthy.
And then the father in the photo, completely healthy.
And it turns out that the child has a preexisting condition, multiple conditions.
And it was complete propaganda that they eventually had to retract.
But if 400 million people saw the original headline, you know how many people saw the retraction?
It was around 300,000.
And so people would to this day still use that photo as reference for why I'm wrong and why there is starvation.
We can get into the nuances.
Of course, there is some degree of starvation, but there's also 2 million tons of aid have been put into Gaza.
That is a ton per person in Gaza.
Hasn't been distributed.
There's reasons for that.
And so there is still hunger, but there is not this mass starvation that people believe.
There simply isn't.
And that photo is one of the reasons why people are outraged
Because if that photo were true or worse, if that photo were the norm, you should be outraged.
But that photo in particular was completely made up for the sake of eliciting sympathy for a terrorist organization.
And that's where I get frustrated by this.
I'm like, guys, stop conflating Israeli's government with Israelis, first of all, or with Jews in general.