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.

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    And the US’s official statement was that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and we needed to invade. Sure…

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      It was also their official statement that Russia was going to invade Ukraine.

      The intelligence agencies actually concluded that Iraq might have weapons of mass destruction. It was the Bush administration that spun it as a certainty and created the lie that they definitely had them.

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      Since this discussion comes again and again and again, here a Crosspost from a similar thread that shows the „morning after“:

      So this here is the current view on the area where supposedly about 500 people died. Also there are allegedly more than 300 wounded.

      Questions I personally have:

      • where is the rubble and where is the bomb crater?
      • why does the building seem undamaged?
      • how do you fit 800 people in this parking lot?
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        Most of those cars don’t even have displaced metal like an explosion, most of it is charred in a secondary fire. Plus what infrastructure does Palestine have to clear the supposed 500+ bodies? Do they have a first world crisis response group hiding somewhere?

        I’d say less then a couple dozen could have possibly died given the impact crater and damage, and that’s assuming all cars were loaded with people and they got instantly trapped and burned to death which probably didn’t happen.

        There’s so many points of “this seems unlikely” on the Hamas side that it’s not worth taking them seriously about it. It’s propaganda through and through. We have more than enough actual documented war crimes from Israel that this “boy who cried wolf” shit is just going to exacerbate their victimhood through discrediting the very real things that they have done wrong as being “probably also propaganda.”