In October 2023, the news was widely dispersed on the Internet about the reservation of the American president, who allegedly stated that he had been born in Israel. We decided to check if he said something like that.

The fact that in his speech, during a visit to Israel, Biden said that he was born in this country, many Russian media said: for example, “”Moscow Komsomolets","Komsomolskaya Truth","Evening Moscow" TASS And "Tsargrad". Official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova reacted Biden’s allegedly sensational statement in his Telegram channel (301,000 views at the time of writing this analysis), noting that a person born outside the United States cannot become an American president. Posted by Biden's reservation and other Telegram channels, in particular "The ax live"(2 million views),"Live broadcast"(643 000),"Sanya in Florida"(278 000),"Truthfulness"(182 000) and"Observer"(164 000). Users of social networks also shared news (for example, X And "VKontakte") And the Platform blog ("Picabu" Livejournal). Some of the posts are accompanied by a 20-second fragment of the President of the United States in Tel Aviv, where he allegedly makes a resonant recognition and quote: "The state of Israel was born for the security of Jews around the world, and I was also born there."

October 18, 2023 Joe Biden I visited Israel, in order to express solidarity with the victims of the Hamas attack, which occurred earlier in the same month, and discuss with the Israeli leadership a return military operation in the gas sector against the backdrop of an increasing conflict in the region. During his visit, the American president made speech In support of Israel - it is from the video with this performance that the distributed fragment with the supposedly sensational statement of Biden was taken.

On the official website of the White House is published transcript Biden's speeches in Tel Aviv. Judging by her, in the video disclosed, the president says: “The state of israel was to be a safe Place for the jewish people of the world. That’s who it was born ”(“ The state of Israel has originated to be a safe place for Jews around the world. That's why it originated ”). The reason for the dispersed publications that Biden allegedly confused his birthplace (and was born He, of course, is not in Israel, but in the USA), the second part of this phrase did not quite clearly utterly uttered by the president. Because of this, some could have the impression that Biden said not “That’s who it was born”, but “That’s What I Was Born” (“That's where I was born”), which, however, is still far from the phrase “I was also born there”, which is attributed to politics. In addition, the assumption either about the reservation, or the recognition arose mainly among Russian -speaking users, since all English -speaking media (for example, CBS News, CNN, The Times of Israel et al.) Bayden quoted exactly as his speech is reflected in the excengogram of the White House. That is, people for whom English are native language did not have the question of what the politician said (probably, because the sound [t] in the word It is heard quite clearly). And from the point of view of logic, the second part of the phrase, which is given by authoritative media and the White House, looks more natural than Biden’s sudden statement about the place of his birth, which Russian media and bloggers write about.

In addition, if Bayden really made a reservation and stated that he was born in Israel, his critics in the USA and other countries would probably have taken advantage of this. “Verified” earlier repeatedly dismantled the wrong statements about the American president, which initially appeared and spread in his homeland. So, for example, the reporting Biden in a bad light of the message that he supposedly did not correspond to reality He fell asleep During a meeting with victims of fires on Maui, I bought it Books to combat dementia or I sniffed Alien child. All these inaccurate messages initially appeared in the English -language segment of the Internet, and only then spread through the Russian -speaking. Therefore, the opponents of Bayden from the United States would hardly have missed the opportunity to put him in an unsightly form if the native speakers really had doubts that it was he who uttered. Nevertheless in English messages about the recognition made in Israel, although Meetbut they are of a single character and are far from as popular as in Runet.

The US president really has some Problems With diction, so sometimes his speech does not sound quite intelligible. This is not the first time this is not the first time Biden’s opponents attribute to him absurd statements and, as a result, draw conclusions about the problems of the American leader with mental health. So, earlier "verified" already Disassembled Messages that Biden allegedly boasted of the US victory over cancer, while in fact he talked about the global plans and tasks that are facing the country.

Judging by the TGSTAT service, the earliest post on recognition of Biden was posted in Telegram on October 18, 2023 at 17:46 Moscow time in the channel "Vedix | Live broadcast"(1300 views). In the publication, a selection of Biden's statements made during a visit to Israel was presented - only a quote attributed to the policy, but there is no corresponding video, was mentioned there. At the same time, under the post there is a note that it was edited, so it is impossible to establish exactly when exactly in the channel appeared a phrase about birth in Israel. The next post on this topic was published on the same day at 17:53 in the channel "Look"(10 800 views). It has already posted a video with the tank of the channel and the same incorrect translation that was dispersed on the Russian -speaking Internet: “The Israel state was born for the security of Jews around the world, and I was also born there.” In the vast majority of subsequent publications on this topic, a video with the same mark is used, which means that most likely this post has become a source of news distribution, which was then repaired by other Telegram channels, users of social networks and the media.

Thus, Bidden did not say at all that he was born in Israel, but only talked about why this state was founded. The reason for the discrepancies was the not quite clear speech of the American president, which, however, misled mainly Russian-speaking Internet users, bloggers and media, for which English is not a native language. In any authoritative or popular English-speaking sources, no one by Biden is attributed to this sensational recognition.

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