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.

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    Again, Hamas is not doing anything to address or end the colonization. Nothing. I’ll get on your side for a moment and for the sake of discussion I’ll agree Israel has done very bad things to Palestinians over decades. Pile on whatever you want on top of this to make Israel out to be worse than Satan or whatever. Then answer the question, what positive outcome will there be to the Hamas attack? You’ve failed to identify anything. Your entire line of argument here is an irrelevant “because colonization” and a bunch of labeling and ad hominem attacks on anyone who disagrees with you.

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      Again,

      Again - the colonized does not require your approval or permission to resist colonization.

      Then answer the question, what positive outcome will there be to the Hamas attack?

      Positive for whom? You? A proven supporter of white supremacist settler-colonialism?

      Or the Palestinians, perhaps, whom you’d prefer to blink out of existence quietly so that you can continue to exist inside your bubble of 1st world privilege without having to face the fact that said privilege is built on exactly that which we are witnessing in Gaza?

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        Positive for whom? You?

        I said previously “Show me some clear, obtainable objectives from Hamas in this attack that will benefit Gaza and the Palestinians”. How many times need I ask?

        Your lack of an answer is the answer. Thank you.

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      Hamas’s attack literally wiped colonizing acceptment off the table. They have tried asking nicely and israel just continued colonizing Palestine.