Who ya gonna believe?

Prime Minister Netanyahu or anybody in the Biden administration? "Netanyahu continues to claim that US hasn’t sent weapons shipments in four months".

Now, that's a pretty straightforward statement. I tend to believe that it's true, but I suppose it could be a half-truth or even a lie. But it's clear, whatever its truth quotient turns out to be.

On the other hand, behold the bureaucratic gobbledygook of National Security Council spokesman John Kirby's response:

Netanyahu’s video “was perplexing, to say the least, certainly disappointing, especially given that no other country is doing more to help Israel defend itself against the threat by Hamas, and quite frankly, other threats that they’re facing in the region than the United States,” Kirby said. “I think we’ve made it abundantly clear to our Israeli counterparts through various vehicles our deep disappointment in the statements expressed in that video and our concerns over the accuracy in the statements made.”

He could have said, "we just made a huge shipment of weapons three weeks ago", or "we've told the Prime Minister that we're working to step up shipments" (if either one of those things is true). But you'll notice that he did not actually deny Netanyahu's claim, just laid out the administrations' hurt feelings on a spongy bed of drivel.