Propaganda in the digital age is truly something to behold.
Remember in July, when The New York Times ran a story about a malnourished boy who actually has a genetic condition?
For two years, we were told that Gazans were starving under the cruel Israeli war machine. Activist Greta Thunberg spent months trying to sail two flotillas to Gaza to give aid. In 2024, former President Joe Biden spent $230 MILLION on a pier to get supplies to Gaza. The pier was only in operation for 3 weeks.
If you only read or watch leftwing news sources (most of the largest media corporations), you probably didn't hear that Hamas, as the ruling authorities in Gaza, tightly controlled the distribution of aid, or that the Gazan health authorities reporting malnutrition and casualties are staffed and/or controlled by members of Hamas.
Once Trump was in office, Democrats wasted no time in blaming him for all of Gaza's woes.
Well, it seems the Gazans all made a miraculous weight recovery, with fresh haircuts and clean clothes too!
To be sure, propaganda exists on both sides of every struggle. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu admitted as much in New York last month when he noted the importance of TikTok and X in modern war during a meeting with social media influencers.
Many Palestinians actually are homeless right now and in need of food assistance, but it should be noted that Israel set up a humanitarian zone with the goal of providing for these displaced families with international aid.
Meanwhile, Hamas and competing terror gangs routinely withheld aid from their own people in order to ensure their fighters had supplies to continue the fight.
The lesson?
Don't trust everything you see on social media, on one side or the other, but be especially wary of politicians who use "starving kids" as props.
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