“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 … And so, 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.”
The above comments were given on a podcast called “Pod Save America” just a few days ago by Barack Obama. It’s absolutely disgusting that a former President of the United States could be so blatantly wrong -headed and antisemitic in the face of abject terrorism. While he initially condemned the Hamas atrocities, he then continued to make a ridiculous moral equivalence by suggesting that everyone involved was “complicit to some degree.” As if burning people alive, rape, and beheading can be morally equivalent to anything.
Everyone knows that the Palestinian’s conditions are unbearable; it’s abuse at the hands of Hamas and the PLO. Billions of dollars are siphoned off to their wealthy leaders and their rebel armies, and not used for the betterment of their own people! Yet Obama’s excuse of being “occupied” is clearly false and he knows it, since the Israelis left Gaza in 2005, even before Obama became President! Nor did he explain that Hamas was elected to lead Gaza in 2006 and has held no election since. This is the same Hamas that has long been designated a terror group by the US, the European Union, and the UK (though a UN resolution failed in 2018). Obama, being President from 2009 – 2017 fully knows this yet remained absolutely silent.
If anyone is complicit, it’s certainly Obama. Remember Obama’s Iranian deal freed up some $100 billion in funds to Iran, including an estimated $1.7 billion in cash payments. Those most certainly went to terrorist proxies such as Hezbollah and Houthi, the same rebels currently and directly assisting Hamas.
And as a Jew, I couldn’t be more ashamed that Jews voted approximately 78% for Obama. I thought we were smarter than that. Obama did an exceptional job bamboozling people that he wasn’t an antisemite while in office and he tried the same thing recently with regard to Hamas. He knows better. It’s truly reprehensible that Obama is actually that cowardly and prejudiced.