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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    what can third parties do to reduce or eliminate Hamas’s hold on Palestine?

    I’m all for Palestinian rights, and the constant encroachment of fundamentalist settlements is a war crime that went unpunished for Israel - but Hamas’s charter is explicit, there’s no middle ground or two state solution, just the destruction of Israel.

    So how can third parties help the Palestinians in the one way that would make a significant difference in their QOL and interactions with Israel?

    Honest question.

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      You’re not going to get any magical solution because Israel is a country founded on stolen land by entitled religious extremists. People always leave that part out when they talk about this situation.

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        You’re not going to get any magical solution

        and yet they all believe in their invisible friends and holy books so much… ironic that.

        Israel is a country founded on stolen land by entitled religious extremists. People always leave that part out when they talk about this situation.

        funny how you’re leaving out the near extermination of their people and world recognition of their state, kinda glossing over most of history even. guess you decided to leave those parts out too. It’s almost as if both sides are completely full of shit.

        Huh.