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)