On October 27, three weeks into Israel’s war with Hamas, Biden’s top foreign policy officials told a small group at the White House that “Israel was regularly bombing buildings without solid intelligence that they were legitimate military targets,” the newspaper wrote, citing three sources familiar with the meeting.

The meeting did little to change the rhetoric of Biden or his officials. The president didn’t criticize Israel over the repeated bombing of a refugee camp in early November. Likewise, the White House publicly backed Israel’s decision to bomb Gaza’s largest hospital later that month, with Kirby telling reporters that Hamas had hidden a command center beneath the facility.

    • @Eximius
      0•8 months ago

      Don’t know how much the information is novel, but the fact that there is evidence that whitehouse intelligence told Biden “Israel is bombing indiscriminately (warcrimes)” is legally damning, while “I dont know the situation, but I support Israel beliefs” is unbelievably ignorant, but not directly attributable to willful participation in genocide.

  • @Bernie_Sandals
    -2•8 months ago

    “Israel was regularly bombing buildings without solid intelligence that they were legitimate military targets,”

    Bad, however using the term “indiscriminate bombing” to describe this is hyperbolic. “Without solid intelligence” could mean they’ve been told by 10 people that Hamas is inside a certain building, but they haven’t actually confirmed the info before bombing something every nation does, unfortunately. “Indiscriminate Bombing” implies WW2 level mass carpet bombing of residential centers, which atm is simply not happening in Gaza.

    • @[email protected]
      0•8 months ago

      “As many as 80% of the buildings in northern Gaza, where the bombing has been most severe, are damaged or destroyed, a higher percentage than in Dresden.”

      -Wall Street Journal in December

    • @LinkerbaanOP
      -1•8 months ago

      Biden also said it three months ago, back then people wrote it up to a gaffe. Now we know it was a freudian slip.

      The article not only confirms that he knew, but that he knew far earlier than most people think.

  • @ZK686English
    -12•8 months ago

    Lol…this has 10 downvotes and won’t even sniff the front page… why? Because Biden and Democrats can do no wrong…

    • @LinkerbaanOP
      -8•8 months ago

      Blue MAGA supporting Genocide as long as Orange man doesn’t win. Any article critical of Biden gets down voted into oblivion here.

      These people would vote for Adolf Hitler if he ran against Trump.

      • @[email protected]
        1•8 months ago

        There are tons of posts and articles critical of Biden on Lemmy that aren’t being downvoted into oblivion. The difference is that they are actually critical whereas you’re just parroting stuff my drunk uncle posts on Facebook.