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Obama Criticizes Israel over Gaza: ‘Don’t Harden Palestinian Attitudes for Generations’
Breitbart ^ | 23 Oct 2023 | JOEL B. POLLAK

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.

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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To: E. Pluribus Unum

61 posted on 10/23/2023 8:19:27 PM PDT by TigersEye (Our Republic is under seige by globalist Marxists. Hold fast!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Israel tried kindness to the Palestinians for years and it hasn't worked.

Palestinians and Muslims in general hate Jews. It's inbred with Islam. So, they can't hate Israel anymore they already do.

62 posted on 10/23/2023 8:19:39 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

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.


63 posted on 10/23/2023 8:22:08 PM PDT by hecticskeptic
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

FU BHO.


64 posted on 10/23/2023 8:22:50 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money)
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To: sheik yerbouty

My thoughts exactly!


65 posted on 10/23/2023 8:26:02 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

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.


66 posted on 10/23/2023 8:36:31 PM PDT by Spacetrucker (George Washington didn't use his freedom of speech to defeat the British - HE SHOT THEM .. WITH GUNS)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Harden their attitudes?

You mean beheading innocent civilians isn’t as hard as an attitude can get?


67 posted on 10/23/2023 8:41:43 PM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (“We should not assume civilization is robust”)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Why doesn’t he go visit gayza? He can tell the Israeli’s to not bomb gayza from the hospital parking lot.


68 posted on 10/23/2023 8:43:03 PM PDT by US_MilitaryRules (#PureBloodlaw enforcement. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Their attitudes are already hardened, Obunghole. Go back to biting your pillow.


69 posted on 10/23/2023 9:03:15 PM PDT by beethovenfan (The REAL Great Reset will be when Jesus returns. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Obama’s anti-war-at-any-cost stance has emboldened Americas most extreme enemies: the Iran-Hezbollah-Hamas-Russia-North Korea-Alliance.


70 posted on 10/23/2023 9:21:16 PM PDT by USA-FRANCE
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To: Billthedrill

Every thing after ‘’but’’ is bulls**t.


71 posted on 10/23/2023 9:25:41 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Obama works for Hamas.


72 posted on 10/23/2023 9:33:05 PM PDT by devere
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

GFY. Biggest Jew-hater to be POTUS, so why should Israel listen to him?


73 posted on 10/23/2023 9:44:37 PM PDT by Ancesthntr (“The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.” ― A.E. Van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

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.


74 posted on 10/23/2023 9:51:14 PM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Eff you “forbidden word unless they call each other that”


75 posted on 10/23/2023 9:53:14 PM PDT by wardaddy (Civilization cannot tolerate what the world is becoming )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

obama will always defend his muzzie brothers


76 posted on 10/23/2023 9:55:12 PM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: NoLibZone

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


77 posted on 10/23/2023 10:04:19 PM PDT by wardaddy (Civilization cannot tolerate what the world is becoming )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

[Obama Criticizes Israel over Gaza: ‘Don’t Harden Palestinian Attitudes for Generations’]

Spoken as the Anti-Israel Muslim that he is.


78 posted on 10/23/2023 11:01:35 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: sheik yerbouty

79 posted on 10/23/2023 11:02:26 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

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.


80 posted on 10/23/2023 11:06:34 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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