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Lewis Hamilton, the Formula 1 driver and Kim Kardashian's boyfriend, visited the Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing this week, shown around by the governor of North Sinai. He wrote that he saw walls stretching for miles, built to keep Gazans in, and in the post to his 44M followers he blamed Israel. Except those walls are Egyptian. Egypt razed the homes of their own people near the border to make room for them, and reinforced them during the war so that Palestinians fleeing the fighting could not cross into Sinai. He stood in the country that built the wall, next to the official who runs the province it sits in, and never thought to ask who put up the wall or why. He's not wrong about aid and how Palestinians need it, but advocacy sort of loses its efficiency when you show that you are either entirely ignorant about the situation or lying to feed a narrative. Oh and Shawn Mendes reposted it too. I guess fact-checking is for a bygone era.