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Biden, who has faced heavy criticism in recent years for a series of gaffes and apparent mental lapses, mistakenly said that Hezbollah was responsible for the attack while making the ceasefire announcement on Wednesday.

"Good afternoon, it's a very good afternoon," Biden said while flanked by Vice President Kamala Harris and Secretary of State Antony Blinken while announcing the deal at a press conference. "Because at long last, I can announce a ceasefire and a hostage deal has been reached between Israel and Hamas."

"[After] more than 15 months of conflict that began with Hezbollah's [sic] brutal massacre on October the 7th," he continued. "More than 15 months of terror for the hostages, their families, the Israeli people. More than 15 months of suffering by the innocent people of Gaza. Fighting in Gaza will stop and soon the hostages will return home and to their families."

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[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 31 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Fun genocide fact! Israel has killed at least 10x as many Palestinian children as Hamas killed total in the initial attack.

Considering the real figures are likely 1.5-2x what is confirmed, the IDF has killed more children in the last 13 months than all Israeli's killed by Palestinians since the 1948 war! Ain't fascism a blast!?!

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

There were 36 Israeli children killed on October 7.

At least 18,000 Palestinian children have been killed since October 7.

This ratio results in a perfectly round number of Israel killing at least 500x more children than Hamas.

[–] coyootje@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Ah yes, the classic "eye for an eye" retaliation that Isreal loves so much /s

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago

"500 eyes for an eye" doesn't really have the same ring to it

[–] DicJacobus@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

their rhetoric and behaivor has been one of . "take care of this problem once and for all"

[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 6 points 2 days ago

They do maintain an official policy of disproportionate response.

[–] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 34 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Is this even news any more? Elect a senile old man and he'll make errors.
Americans voted for 4 more years of that, nottheonion is going to get a lot more material.

[–] archonet@lemy.lol 27 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I just hope Trump's senior moments don't get us all killed. I mean, his lucid thoughts are bad enough.

[–] don@lemm.ee 19 points 2 days ago

Going by his Covid response, you can probably make some reasonable predictions.

My fellow Americans, I've signed legislation that will outlaw ~~russia~~ blue states forever. We begin bombing in five minutes!

(Fun fact: Ronald Regan actually said that as a joke, the russia part, not the blue states)

[–] Oisteink@feddit.nl 4 points 2 days ago

You never mix stuff. But this is not caused by your intelligence (not intelligent), but because you have so little going on.

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The dude's totally retiring in 3 days, let it go

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Nah let him go out a clown.

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works -1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

He'd already be a clown even if he got this right.

[–] PixelatedSaturn@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago

OMG, what a faux pas! /S

I mean come on. It's a totally normal irrelevant mistake anyone could make. Besides, who cares?

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Sure, what a scoop Newsweek. You're really shaking things up.

[–] Agrivar@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

That seems more like a Freudian slip than anything else. It's easy to confuse one terrorist group for another, especially when they both have a name that starts with 'H' and they're fighting each other.

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

Especially when you're battling Alzheimer's

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

That's not a Freudian slip. That's just misspeaking.

[–] Docandersonn@lemm.ee 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] DicJacobus@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

marginally less bad than mixing up the names of Zelenskyy and Putin. tho

[–] twistypencil@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Bfd, he flubbed a word. Meanwhile Trump...

[–] killingspark@feddit.org 9 points 2 days ago

Covfefe anyone?

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Is he talking about the ceasefire that Israel immediately violated? So it’s, like, not a ceasefire?

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

The ceasefire goes in effect on Sunday. Israel always kills as many civilians as they can before a ceasefire but technically this ceasefire still has to go into effect.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Why are we still pretending that Biden’s giving carte blanche and a steady supply of entirely unnecessary and overkill weaponry to Bibi to do whatever the fuck he wanted in Gaza is not what’s happening here?

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world -2 points 2 days ago

Because everyone who does so gets called a Trump supporter.