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.
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””