Reflecting on his presidency, Obama posed the question, “Well, was there something else I could have done?”

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.

  • @trafficnab@lemmy.ca
    6•1 year ago

    We should give him the benefit of the doubt, maybe he’s only advocating for the ~25% (2m people or so) of the Israeli civilian population that’s not native born to be killed? Or maybe only the ~500k Israeli civilians who are >75 years old that were alive to see the 1948 war and creation of the state? Maybe some combination of the two? Surely a tankie can’t be advocating for the genocide of an entire nation?

    Edit: Oh he messaged me instead of replying? Not sure if that was on accident but:

    settlers aren’t civilians, only settlers think they’re civilians

    and you are definitely so good at ignoring when you reply to my comment

    you libs are a joke and a half ill tell ya

    No no, you misunderstand me, when I say “ignore” I only mean disregard your opinions, there’s no way I’d miss out on pointing and laughing with everyone else at the genocidal tankies, we have to make sure nobody around here thinks it’s an appropriate opinion to have

    • @MonkeyBusiness
      2•1 year ago

      They DM’d me too, I suspect mods banned him. Given his account is only a few hours old, I don’t get why he’s not just making another one.