Former President Barack Obama cautioned against ignoring the complexities of the Israel-Hamas war, warning that “all of us are complicit.”
“If you want to solve the problem, then you have to take in the whole truth. And you then have to admit nobody’s hands are clean, that all of us are complicit to some degree,” he said in an excerpted interview with Pod Save America released Saturday.
This is bullshit. Israel’s response is completely disproportionate. 2000+ children are dead in Gaza.
I don’t see where Obama said anything about things being proportionate, and I don’t know what “proportionate” has to do with the fact that heinous acts have been taken by both sides.
There’s no “both sides” to this anymore. Almost ten times the people have been killed by Israel with almost all of them being civilians.
How many times can you poke a bear before it decides it’s done?
It’s not an excuse. Israel’s actions are absolutely disproportionate. I can argue either side, but that’s exactly the point. Nobody’s hands are clean. You don’t have to condone Israel’s actions to understand they were provoked.
There can never be peace without both sides admitting some fault. Two wrongs don’t make a right. 9061 wrongs don’t cancel out 1400 wrongs. That’s not how any of this works.
What do you suggest Israel does? What do you suggest Palestinians in Gaza do? Until you think a little bit deeper, you can’t just say dismissive, pithy things that only favor one side.
This isn’t a sports team. You can’t just pick a side and cheer for them no matter what.
I’m not advocating for Hamas, I’m advocating for the non-combatants who just want to send their kids to school.
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As Martin Luther King famously said, “Violence is the language of the unheard.”
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Israel has killed ten times the people compared to who? Oh yeah, the other “side”, who also has killed a bunch of civilians.
I’m not talking a pro-Hamas position. I’m taking a pro-child position. You don’t give a fuck about people though.
Straight up overreaction to someone saying that the post was right, because it is.
It’s self-referential meaning the western world is complicit in ALL the death there, both sides, because the Western allies of Israel have never forced them to the table to hammer out an actual solution.
What solution can they hammer out? Trying a two state solution again?
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Hard pass on that. I like my democracy.
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In a complete shock to everyone, the guy with the tankie name is all for the deaths of innocent civilians
At least they wear it like a badge of honor, making it easy to identify and ignore them
both hamas and the israeli government want war not peace you can’t reason with that
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“issuing correction on a previous post of mine, regarding the terror group hamas. you do not, under any circumstances, “gotta hand it to them””
Terrorists consider civilian casualties to be a scorecard. Hamas benefits when there’s Israeli civilian casualties. Hamas also benefits when there’s Palestinian civilian casualties.
That’s the whole point of taking hostages isn’t it? To force Israel into a ground campaign which will cause Palestinian civilian casualties.
The military forces of civilized nations don’t consider civilian casualties to be a victory no matter which side it’s on. They have an objective and need to achieve that objective while minimizing civilian casualties. The objective of the IDF is to free the hostages. They will make an effort to minimize civilian casualties. But they must achieve that objective even while know civilian causalities are a certainty even when they make an to keep those casualties to a minimum.
This is the nature of war. And this is a war Hamas started. And remember there could be significantly fewer casualties (and a humanitarian ceasefire) if Hamas released the hostages.
But they won’t do that because their objective is to maximize the number of Palestinian casualties because many people look at those casualties and become angry and want to support them.
Netanyahu will lose power because of 1400 Israeli deaths. Both Israeli and Palestinian civilian casualties are considered to be a failure by Israelis.
Both Israeli and Palestinian civilian casualties are considered a success by Hamas. They are psychopaths that know how people react to these numbers.
Constantly bombs refugee camps, schools, and hospitals This is just war, bro. Yeah we have the 4th most sophisticated and accurate military on earth but we just can’t help hitting civilians who just happen to be a minority in their own land…
Dude, the logical hoops you’ll jump through to justify a genocide is extremely concerning.
Holocaust scholars all over the world have even condemned the bloodshed.
This isn’t the cost of war. It’s punishment. It’s imperialism.
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An ethnostate is one pillar of Fascism, so yeah.
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When a legitimate target is hiding among civilians, there are two possible responses:
No “buts”. Like it or not, defend it or not, that’s what non-civilized nations do.
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Yep, genocide not cool Israel. The future will not be kind to you.
But only because they are the ones in power. If the positions of power were reversed, it’d be pretty much the same thing, except Hamas would be the one performing the apartheid and the genocide.
It’s probably true. But it’s still a disproportionate response.
Bullshit made up comment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas_Charter
“Violence is the language of the unheard” - MLK
So not bullshit, just something you want to excuse.
If Israel wasn’t stealing the land of Palestinians, there would be no Hamas.
Perhaps, but that doesn’t excuse what Hamas has stated for itself to stand for.
Sure it does. The jews are the occupying force that is committing genocide against their people. You don’t expect them to have an opinion about that?