A firestorm of outrage has erupted across social media after veteran “60 Minutes” host Lesley Stahl asked a question that many are calling shocking—and even sympathetic to terrorists—during a Sunday night segment with American-Israeli hostage Keith Siegel, recently released from nearly 500 days in Hamas captivity.
In the emotional interview, Siegel recounted being starved, beaten, and humiliated by his Hamas captors. He recalled how, after his wife Aviva was released, “they became very mean and very cruel and violent. They were beating me and starving me.” Stahl then posed the now-infamous question: “Do you think they starved you on purpose, or they just didn’t have food?”
Siegel’s response was unequivocal: “No, I think they starved me, and they would often eat in front of me and not offer me food.”
The question ignited a wave of condemnation from pro-Israel voices, Jewish organizations, and former hostages’ advocates, who accused CBS and Stahl of providing cover for a genocidal terror group.
“She should ask the Nazis if they meant to starve the Jews in the Holocaust or didn’t have enough aid,” wrote Jewish journalist Ari Hoffman on X. Others, like the account Jews Fight Back, expressed disbelief: “Lesley Stahl looked a Jewish hostage in the face—after being starved, tortured, beaten, and dragged through hell—and asked if maybe Hamas didn’t mean to starve him. Are you … kidding me?”
Siegel was kidnapped on October 7, 2023, during the Hamas massacre in southern Israel. He spent 484 days in captivity under unimaginable conditions—conditions that included starvation, beatings, and psychological torture. His testimony included descriptions of being allowed to bathe only once a month and witnessing Hamas members assaulting female hostages.
Despite the uproar, CBS News has yet to issue a response.
(YWN World Headquarters – NYC)
Join the official YWN WhatsApp status
6 Responses
Im sorry but I don’t see anything wrong in the question
She wanted there to be no doubt that they starved him
Hamas gets the bulk of USAID & UNRAW food and they resell it for hefty profit. She’s either too dumb to realize that or deliberately has her head in the sand like most MSM.
A shame she or one of her loved ones didn’t perish together with all those poor souls that fateful Tuesday . Then maybe she and all the rest would be singing a different tune .
The answer is very simple. He should have said: “Have you seen the footages coming out of those Gaza celebrations where civilians and my captors are celebrating and passing candies around? You can see for yourselves that they were all FAT and well-fed. Look at the Israeli hostages. Don’t you think that they looked starved and tortured?” CNN has plenty of pictures and videos on line proving this point. These footages were taken by the Hamas and their friends the liberal media and not by the Israelis. Maybe they will remove them now that this point is made.
This should make clear to any Jew considering to vote for a democrat, this is the is their mainstream position regarding Jews and Israel. Today’s Left is the largest antisemitic movement in American history
Self hating liberal Jews bend over backwards to appease those who want to kill us thinking they can make peace. Soros, Stahl, Schumer, Schiff, Nadler, Kissinger, all the LEftists in Israel , those at the NOva festival, Tel Aviv ones who banned separate services , and the list goes on. What is this?? Erev Rav?? Why is this within us?