Posted on 10/23/2023 7:04:17 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Former President Barack Obama originally said Israel should “dismantle” Hamas, but has now criticized Israel for the way it is “dismantling” the Palestinian terror organization.
In a statement Monday, Obama wrote:
As I stated in an earlier post, Israel has a right to defend its citizens against such wanton violence, and I fully support President Biden’s call for the United States to support our long-time ally in going after Hamas, dismantling its military capabilities, and facilitating the safe return of hundreds of hostages to their families.
But even as we support Israel, we should also be clear that how Israel prosecutes this fight against Hamas matters.
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Still, the world is watching closely as events in the region unfold, and any Israeli military strategy that ignores the human costs could ultimately backfire. Already, thousands of Palestinians have been killed in the bombing of Gaza, many of them children. Hundreds of thousands have been forced from their homes. The Israeli government’s decision to cut off food, water and electricity to a captive civilian population threatens not only to worsen a growing humanitarian crisis; it could further harden Palestinian attitudes for generations, erode global support for Israel, play into the hands of Israel’s enemies, and undermine long term efforts to achieve peace and stability in the region.
A siege of Gaza would be lawful under international law, as an expert recently noted. Moreover, as Israel’s ceremonial president, Isaac Herzog, has noted, Gaza only obtains 7% of its water from Israel in any case.
Obama ignored Israel’s long record as one of the best, if not the best, countries in the world in upholding human rights and international humanitarian law in war against a ruthless, terrorist enemy.
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Palestinians and Muslims in general hate Jews. It's inbred with Islam. So, they can't hate Israel anymore they already do.
It seems like the masters aren’t happy with the results of Bye-Done’s trip to Israel.... so BarryBoy himself has been called in to have a shot at it.
FU BHO.
My thoughts exactly!
Are you f&^%ing kidding me??? Just how much more “hardened” do you think they can get? Perhaps they will start killing, raping and tortu.... never mind, they’re ALREADY there, you asshat.
Harden their attitudes?
You mean beheading innocent civilians isn’t as hard as an attitude can get?
Why doesn’t he go visit gayza? He can tell the Israeli’s to not bomb gayza from the hospital parking lot.
Their attitudes are already hardened, Obunghole. Go back to biting your pillow.
Obama’s anti-war-at-any-cost stance has emboldened Americas most extreme enemies: the Iran-Hezbollah-Hamas-Russia-North Korea-Alliance.
Every thing after ‘’but’’ is bulls**t.
Obama works for Hamas.
GFY. Biggest Jew-hater to be POTUS, so why should Israel listen to him?
Too bad he wasn’t around to lecture Lincoln about hardening the attitudes of the Confederacy, or Roosevelt about hardening the attitudes of the Germans and the Japanese. Etc.
Eff you “forbidden word unless they call each other that”
obama will always defend his muzzie brothers
That’s not true
The gulf monarchs would love to see Hamas and Hezbollah gone
The Arab street is about as fickle as our negro street or Latino street
Easily riled one way or another
Gaza palis are likely not fond of Israelis id agree
The 2006 ejection was like parliament and Hamas won a plurality of 44% over Fatah at 41%
They combined with three tiny parties and took 55% of the seats and have held on since
How much popular support they truly have who knows
Polls show frequently that poor Arabs and Muslims support violence against all non Muslims but particularly Christians due to our power and support of Israel and Jews due to proximity
I have a recent video of the UAE foreign minister warning the west don’t go PC with Muslim immigration that it’s dangerous for us and he knows better than us
I know sound and fury is a hallmark here but this sit rep is more complicated than the obvious goal of Israel having no choice but to eradicate Hamas
And that won’t be easy sadly
I hate to see the narrative attempted about Israel and proportion
And I also think Israel enjoys huge goodwill with most western electorates now beyond kooks
[Obama Criticizes Israel over Gaza: ‘Don’t Harden Palestinian Attitudes for Generations’]
Spoken as the Anti-Israel Muslim that he is.
He did murder the chef. He had bandaged fingers and his face was marked up.
obama is a terrorist supporter. He and Biden are trying to get Iran nuclear weapons to destroy Israel and attack the USA. If that happens then obama would STILL blame Israel and the USA just as Bill Clinton blamed the United States 2 weeks after 9/11.
To not be able to condemn what the terrorists have done or to even call them terrorists is beyond comprehension.
The democrats have seen the photos of what was done to all those killed yet still support the terrorists.
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