“All of Us” Aren’t Complicit in the Gaza War, but Barack Obama Is
The former president’s simplistic idea of “complexity.”
November 7, 2023
“All of Us” Aren’t Complicit in the Gaza War, but Barack Obama Is
The former president’s simplistic idea of “complexity.”
On October 23, the former president Barack Obama issued a statement about the Israel-Hamas war, which sidelined anti-Semitism, ignored Iran’s role in supporting Hamas, and in other ways offset its nobler sentiments. He recently elaborated further on the subject in a public appearance hosted by a group of his former aids, emphasizing the “complexity” of the situation. In other words, he went on, “what Hamas did was horrific, and there is no justification for it. And what is also true is that the occupation, and what’s happening to Palestinians, is unbearable.” Tellingly, his audience applauded after the first part of that statement, but not after the second. Abe Greenwald comments:
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