@inthehands I'm not certain that anything happened per se. My impression is that Biden never entertained the idea of denying material support to the Israeli campaign or being anything less than on Israel's side, but he also felt the need (possibly for both political and conscience-salving reasons) to make a token disavowal of the atrocities that the Israeli leadership had already declared the intention to commit. Which has pretty much been the line he's continued to walk.