Former President Barack Obama said a way forward for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is only possible if people acknowledge the “complexity” of the situation.
“If there’s any chance of us being able to act constructively to do something, it will require an admission of complexity and maintaining what on the surface may seem contradictory ideas that what Hamas did was horrific, and there’s no justification for it. And … that the occupation and what’s happening to Palestinians is unbearable,” Obama said in an interview on the podcast “Pod Save America.”
The former president’s comments come as the Israeli military focuses its offensive against Hamas in Gaza City and northern parts of the enclave.
Such a pathetic reply. The Nazis murdered millions of civilians. They rounded them up, put them in camps, and killed them with the intention of eradicating their entire race.
Israel has, for the most part, avoided intentionally targeting civilians while rooting out Hamas in Gaza. Yes, there have been unfortunate exceptions, but you’d have to be either incredibly dishonest or incredibly stupid to claim it’s a “holocaust”.
Everyone’s Hamas if you’re being shot at by Israel. Very convenient, ain’t it?
That’s actually not very convenient at all for Israel considering that civilian casualties have the potential to harm relationships with important allies.