I never said or implied that he did. But I have heard protesters calling him Genocide Joe, so somebody is accusing him of it. Hillary Clinton has publicly addressed her concern about that extreme rhetoric. She has also debunked the false claim by protesters that Palestine has never had the chance to establish its own nation state.
You oppose misinformation, but that's what some of your statements sound like with the terms that you choose. Biden has said that Israel does not give enough attention to protecting civilians in its targeted attacks against Hamas. I don't remember him saying that Israel has committed atrocities. Maybe he did and I missed it. I think he did say that the 10/7 attacks on Israeli civilians by Hamas were atrocities, or might have used a similar word. I'd have to look it up to be certain.
A common misrepresentation among anti Israel protesters is the claim that Israel's bombs are deliberately targeting civilians in order to commit mass murder. But, if that were true, Israel would not be giving civilians advance warning before the bombings. Israel's military strategy is to destroy all of Hamas' communications centers, command centers, and weapons storage sites in order to destroy Hamas' capability of using them in future atracks. Those centers are located under civilian facilities throughout the entire region of Gaza. That's why Israel gives advance warning to civilians and it's why so many civilians have died despite the warnings. It's why the military strategy of taking out the military fortifications of the fighting force that a nation is at war with is not mass murder. It is war. Wars result in both civilian and military deaths. It's why war is so horrible.
That does not mean that I don't see and care about the Palestinian civilian deaths. I care very much. The primary cause of those deaths is the decision by Hamas to use its own people as war fodder to protect themselves. My anger is at Hamas for using civilians so callousedly, for hoarding food and medical supplies for themselves, and for hijacking aid when it is delivered.
Israeli checkpoints to inspect aid deliveries were not set up to deny aid to Palestinian civilians, as so many protesters claim. They were established to catch Hamas weapons smugglers and aid hijackers. Hamas is fighting a guerrilla war with guerrilla tactics that include infiltration of civilian services to smuggle weapons and hijack supplies.
There have also been incidents of individual IDF soldiers shooting at civilians, even their own escaped hostages one time, not as a war strategy, but as hyper suspicious trigger happy individuals. And in some cases, there were individual acts of apparent deliberate vengeance. I don't know since I was not there and am not privy to the investigations. It is never justified, but it does occur in wars when it is not official strategy. There are instances of it by Allies against civilians in WWII.
It is not Israeli war strategy to eliminate innocent Palestinian civilians. The targets are Hamas communications centers, command centers, and weapons storage sites. The strategy is to destroy the underground network system so that it can never be used again.
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