Were Any Of Netanyahu’s Remarks Before Congress ‘False Or Misleading?’: Biden Admin Pressed

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During Thursday’s White House press briefing, National Security Communications Advisor John Kirby was asked about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s remarks before Congress.

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00:00Thanks, John.

00:01Did the U.S. find any of Netanyahu's remarks yesterday to be false or misleading?

00:06I'm not going to parse everything he said or do a fact check here from this podium.

00:14He should speak for himself about what his views are.

00:16He should, but he had a powerful stage, a joint address before Congress.

00:21Do you agree with assertions that Iran financially backed some of the protesters, that if there

00:26are Palestinians in Gaza who aren't getting enough food, it's not because Israel is blocking

00:31it, as two examples?

00:33So on the first example, we've said ourselves, the Director of National Intelligence came

00:36out publicly and said that we do know that Iran has been funding and encouraging some

00:43of the protest activity here in the United States, some of it.

00:48We do not believe that all the protest activity out there on a daily basis is being fully

00:55funded by Iran.

00:57There's a lot of organic concern out there in the American people about what's going

01:01on in the Middle East, and most of these protests are formed and fashioned in that regard.

01:08On the second question, it's a – there has been a steady increase of humanitarian assistance

01:16getting into Gaza.

01:18The problem isn't getting it to Gaza right now.

01:23The problem is getting it around Gaza.

01:28And one of the reasons why it's so dang difficult to move things around inside Gaza is because

01:32there's a war going on and bombs are dropping.

01:35And regrettably, in the conduct of some of their recent operations, the Israeli military

01:40has in fact – not on purpose, we have no reason to believe they did this deliberately,

01:44but there has been accidental strikes on some of the trucks and the convoys that have been

01:50moving around.

01:51So there's – it's not one or the other.

01:55There's a lot of reasons why it's not moving around, and some of that is, of course, the

01:58military activity of the Israelis inside Gaza.

02:01And then now that the Vice President is the likely Democratic nominee, has she communicated

02:07with the President whether a Harris administration's Israel policy would be the same or different

02:13as his?

02:14You would have to talk to the Vice President's office and the campaign for that.

02:19I would just – before I leave that, though, just want to remind she's been a full partner

02:23in our policies in the Middle East, particularly with our policies towards Israel and the war

02:29in Gaza, a full partner, been involved in nearly every conversation that the President

02:34has had with the prime minister, and very much engaged throughout.

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