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.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Well, yeah.

    The world isn’t black or white. But if you’ve been accepting anything a US president says as enough…

    Saying it’s been an issue for 7 years is an understatement. Which is why you asking g me to clarify was so weird.

    Obama was only decent because of the drastically low bar we’ve had for decades.

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      1 year ago

      I’m accepting it as “enough” in the very narrow definition that words from the president qualify as a statement from the office.