President Joe Biden was asked by a reporter in Israel on Wednesday what made him confident that the Israelis weren’t behind the explosion that killed hundreds at a Gaza hospital on Tuesday.
Biden responded that it was “the data I was shown by my Defense Department.”
Two U.S. officials told ABC News the Pentagon independently concluded the Gaza hospital blast was likely caused by an errant Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket that fell short of its target.
He was asked on the street by a random reporter.
His quote includes “likely”
For the last couple years Bidens off the cuff remarks haven’t exactly been reliable.
Yet people are treating this as an official stance of the US Government…
I’ll take what the president says as the stance of the US government, and I don’t think that’s remotely unreasonable…
If he’s making mistakes with off the cuff remarks, then he needs to stop making off the cuff remarks.
It’s certainly more likely to be the correct way if looking at it than it was a few short years ago.
Well, the president is stopping short of saying it was Hamas yet, so there you go.
Nobody thinks it was Hamas. Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) is a different Iran-supported group.
No one from the US government has said it was anyone…
Just “it doesn’t look like Israel is responsible”
Yet people are acting like it’s undeniable proof…
Good enough for me.
The same people who jumped on the Israel definitely bombed that hospital bandwagon are now so sure that nothing short of 100% proof could ever sway them
A week ago Biden said he saw beheaded babies
Biden’s been making stupid off the cuff remarks since the 80s, it’s practically what he’s known for.
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Uh, did you miss this part?
The embedded tweet:
So the investigation isn’t concluded, there might not have even been an official investigation, and all they’re saying is Israel “isn’t responsible”.
None of what OPs headline claims.
That’s a tweet from the white house national security council. That’s completely independent of the article’s claim that two pentagon officials gave them info.
So those two officials haven’t officially said it…
And even if they did say it to journalists, there’s nothing to back it up?
What exactly are you trying to get at? I’ve literally rebuked every claim you’ve made, but your stance just seems to boil down to “they are lying.”
Many antivaxers and trump supporters have thought the same thing…
Lmao okay buddy. Good job not answering my question.
Wow shocker the pentagon is defending its close partner in the war. Ill beleive them when they actually release evidence not just “The pentagon said so.”