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.
What “complexities”? There is absolutely nothing “complex” about white supremacist settler-colonialism. End of story.
What “Israel-Hamas war”? Israel has been waging war on Palestinians since 1949 - long before Hames existed.
Fuck Barack “No We Can’t!” Obama and his lib blame-shifting bullshittery.
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Which part of…
…didn’t you get the first time around?
Do tell… do you hide behind this (alleged) “complexity” when the subject of Apartheid-South Africa comes up? Or the Antebellum South, perhaps?
Israel is asshole.
Hamas is asshole.
I guess it isn’t so complex after all.
Hamas is not the party that has been perpetrating white supremacist settler-colonialism since 1949.
Your “bothside-ism” is nothing but thinly-veiled apologetics for Israel.
Israel is not the party that stormed a festival and ruthlessly executed civilians and took civilians as hostages. It’s easy to play this game. The fact is Hamas is the bigger asshole at the moment, much bigger. They launched an attack with no clear objectives other than killing Israelis. If they had lined up on the border of Gaza and said they were declaring independence, creating a sovereign state to end years of ongoing Israeli brutality, and requested international support to build the governance and infrastructure to support it this would be a totally different discussion.
Oh, look… a liberal blaming the colonized for their own colonization.
It just doesn’t take a lot for you to betray the rabid right-wing, pro-colonialist ideology hiding under your liberal facade, does it?
Here’s the part you’re not getting: Hamas didn’t launch the attack to end their colonization. Show me some clear, obtainable objectives from Hamas in this attack that will benefit Gaza and the Palestinians instead of just taunting liberals and I’ll be all ears.
Here’s the part you’re not getting - the colonized does not require your approval or permission to resist colonization.
The fact that you obviously believe they do shows how thoroughly you are invested in viewing the world through the lens of white supremacist colonialism… so I guess the answer to my original question is in the affrimative - you are the exact kind of person that would have provided “complexity” apologetics no matter which instance of colonialist slaughter we’d be living through.
Peak liberalism - as the kids these days would say.
So your stance is Hamas’ isn’t an asshole?
Nope.
Either way, my ‘both-sideism’ is mostly the ability to be empathetic to the situation both sides are in currently.
If I were a Palestinian in Gaza, I would be pissed at essentially being born into an open air prison with the boots of another that hates me in my neck all my life. I would be willing to fight, however I could, to strike back at my jailers.
If I were an Israeli, I’d see Gaza as filled with dangerous people who want to exterminate me an my family. I would ideally want them gone, but knowing that’s not possible, id want them kept as non threatening as possible in their cage.
Neither side is wrong; if I were Israel I wouldn’t want any kind of solution that empowers a group whose stated goal is my death. And I can’t blame the anger of the residents of Gaza for their treatment over the decades.
We have already established that you are “empathetic” to white supremacist settler-colonialism - which in itself proves that your “empathy” is no less facetious as everything else that emanates from right-wing ideology.
And if you were German in the 1940s, you’d see everybody to the east of Germany as dangerous “Jewish Bolshevists” that must be exterminated at every cost.
And according to the mentally diseased liberal “centrist” hive mind you are a proud member of, you wouldn’t be wrong, would you?
No, Sonny Jim, you are wrong - and you know it, too. That’s why you’re tying yourself into white supremacist logic-pretzels to apologize for your support of white supremacist settler-colonialism.
That is it. End of story.
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Neither is Israel. Please educate yourself on this multi-millennia long conflict before trying to claim it’s not a complicated situation.
Shit, here’s a short video that might help explain why this isn’t anywhere close to as cut and dry as you want it to be: https://youtu.be/m19F4IHTVGc?si=F3X8LGUrQGMHdXVv
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Israel is a white supremacist settler-colonialist state. End of story.
Seventy years doesn’t qualify as “multi-millenia,” okay?
You can keep saying that but they aren’t white, and they are the original settlers of the area… Soooo not end of story, not even part of the story.
Yeah but 3000 years is so…
Maybe watch the video? Or read up on history? Like maybe look at the buildings Jewish people built there thousands of years ago that are still standing? And there’s the fact that they’ve been there the whole time? Sure there was a migration of Jewish people coming back after WW2, but the population didn’t go from 0. They were always there.
In fact the Jewish population was the reason the white colonizers (the British ) left Israel in the late 40’s.
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Say it louder. Bellow it from the rooftops so that every Jewish person in occupied Palestine can hear you - they aren’t “white” enough for you… just like your European ancestors insisted when they massacred Jewish people and drove them from their homes due to their rabid antisemitism. Show them that they are nothing but kapos to you, right-winger - show them that you will only support them as long as they are repressing brown people for you in the middle-east.
Show them what true antisemitism looks like in the way that only you and your ilk can.
Pulling 2930 years out of your arrse is not the magic trick you assume it to be.
Did you only figure out now that there have always been Jewish Palestinians in Palestine? Wait till you find out that the earth isn’t flat…
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Oh, look… a liberal is upset that their vaunted “enlightened centrism” turned out to be nothing more than camouflaged right-wing ideology with a smiley face.
Do what all right-wingers do when exposed - snort copium and run for the next big lie, okay?
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What’s the matter? Ran out of copium? Don’t have another big lie to hide behind? Don’t worry… your ideological right-wing brethren has quite a few available for you - all you have to do is to take off that liberal mask and be the right-winger you truly are.
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It’s a rarity to see someone with their head so far up their own ass as to say something like that and be completely serious.
Oh look… more people hiding their support for white supremacist settler-colonialism behind (alleged) “complexities.”
I’d say that if you are finding it difficult to see someone with their head up their own ass you should try shoving a mirror where the sun don’t shine - it’s not going to work for you any other way.
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Funny you should pick an arbitrary year that is just +1 from the time when all Israel’s arab neighbors (including Palestine) attacked them in an effort to annihilate them. And lost miserably. And then tried it again a few more times and lost miserably every time.
Yep, there’s no complexity: if you start a war and lose it, you get fucked. If you then do the exact same thing 3 more times with an ever growing enemy, what the fuck is wrong with your brain?
Oh, people didn’t take kindly to a white supremacist settler-colonial state being foisted on them?
You don’t say.
Why are you calling them white supremacist?
Because that’s what Israel is.
I mean I get why somebody might call them Zionists or even “Jew supremacists” or something like that, but why conflate them with a totally different group of fascists? Should we call Hamas white supremacists too?
Where do you think Jewish Zionism got it’s ideas on racialized supremacy from? The antisemitic and white supremacist Christians that invented Zionism in the first place, maybe?
Because it’s just a different flavor of the exact same ideology, maybe?
From the Tanakh, more than a thousand years before Europe had any civilization, and some time before Christianity existed?
Ok, so then I can call palestinians, or at least Hamas, white supremacists as well? It’ll sound a bit weird.
You wanna blame Jewish people for inventing white supremacism? Hold on while I fetch the popcorn for this one… your little right-wing logic pretzel is about to go full Chernobyl.
Do you see Palestinians waging genocidal settler-colonialism in Kenya, perhaps? Or New Zealand, maybe?