Obama was asked about the ‘violence in Gaza’ at a Pod Save America event and he gave this answer that essentially says both sides are wrong.
It’s moral equivalence at its worst:
Obama: “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…
“You have to admit that all of us are complicit to some degree.” pic.twitter.com/FtAGFAexz1
— Yonah Lieberman 🔥 (@YonahLieberman) November 4, 2023
Anyone who has been to the Holy Land knows that in some cases the hatred goes both ways. That can’t be denied. But as I like to tell people, the violence is nearly always one-sided, as we saw on October 7th.
It’s clear that Obama thinks his view on this issue is ‘enlightened’, but it’s definitely not. Because there is NO occupation in the Holy Land. Israel has belonged to the Jews since the book of Exodus, when God led them there out of Egypt. And yes, they finally came back en force in 1948 and have been there ever since. It was the ultimate part of a two-state solution:
Just a reminder— the British already had a two state solution. They split up the British Mandate into Jordan (closed to Jewish settlement) and Palestine for Jews, now renamed Israel.
This was 100 years ago…
Jews received a small chunk of the land; larger land given to Arabs. pic.twitter.com/sCk601hcst
— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) October 29, 2023
Until Arabs, Palestinians and people like Obama acknowledge the truth of this, there will be no peace.