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“In one of those moments that you can’t believe is not satire, Antony Blinken met with Arab-American leaders and warned them that if Palestine got statehood, the US would defund the United Nations and potentially the World Food Program, plunging the developing world into starvation. It wasn’t enough for these fascists to starve innocents in Palestine, they’re now threatening to do it across the world. They would really rather kill millions more than stop doing genocide.”
https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/blinken-suggests-the-world-food-program
@aral Hum, that's not *quite* what is reported in that article. What it reports, via very indirect sources, is that (a) the US might defund the UN, and (b) that the *UN* might cut the food program.
However, I am wary of the sources.
cf. https://youtu.be/u_FnTyAl3po?si=F7ZQIr7m9uTHpdCx
Seems like the article stands principally on what Bilal Hammoud told in this broadcast. 
@adachika192
Right, exactly. Confirmation would be needed
@Miro_Collas @adachika192 @palestine Confirmation from a white person? Is Bilal inherently untrustworthy because he is an Arab-American? I’m having real trouble understanding this.
@aral
Playing the racism card? That's disappointing. Especially because you have no idea whatsoever what race I am, you made an assumption. Which could be seen as racist too, perhaps.
Confirmation from a different source. it is not at all unusual to wish to see news confirmed from other sources.
@Miro_Collas @adachika192 @palestine I didn’t realise it was a card. My question is what makes an Arab-American who was in the actual meeting sharing his recollection of his first-hand experience at the meeting an untrustworthy primary source? I don’t think I’ve gotten an answer to that question.
@aral
His ethnicity is irrelevant - why did you introduce it? So yes, you're playing the racism card.
Also, I never said he was untrustworthy.
So, there is no question to answer, and this conversation is over.
Wait, I can’t follow your argument… Who’s talking about any “confirmation from a white person”? Would you kindly explain the logic?