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.

  • masquenox@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    especially an ethnostate tied so closely to a religion, was a mistake.

    White supremacist settler-colonialism is not a mistake - it’s policy. Do you think the hundreds of billions in murder-money the US gives Israel is merely the result of a typo?

    80+ percent of Israeli citizens were born in Israel.

    And? Did you just assume that they were the first Jewish people to ever be born in Palestine? You did know that there has been Jewish and Christian Palestinians all this time, right?

    If your proposed solution is the forced dismantling of Israel

    It’s not my proposed solution - it is merely the only solution. Israel is a western-backed white supremacist settler-colonialist project - it has no more “right” to exist than the Crusader kingdoms of the middle ages did.

    then you are simply trading one genocide for another.

    You mean… like white people in South Africa are being “genocided,” eh? What did you think? All people who has Israeli citizenship will simply drop dead as soon as the Israeli state packs up and leaves like the colonialist house of cards it truly is? Just like the Apartheid-regime in South Africa did?

    Nationality is not culture, genius - you can’t commit genocide against a nationality. Nationalities aren’t people.