Former US President Barack Obama speaks to attendees at the Obama Foundation Democracy Forum on November 03, 2023 in Chicago.
Barack Obama just shared a very frank opinion on the complexities of the Israel-Hamas war, and claimed “nobody’s hands are clean”.
He said: “If there’s any chance of us being able to act, constructively, it will require an admission of complexity and maintaining what – on the surface – may seem contradictory ideas, that what Hamas did was horrific, and there’s no justification for it.
“And what is also true is that the occupation, and what’s happening to Palestinians is unbearable.”
There was a brief round of applause at this point, before Obama continued: “And what is also true is there is a history of the Jewish people that may be dismissed unless your grandparents, or your great-grandparents, or your uncle or your aunt, tell you stories about the madness of antisemitism.
“And what is true is that there are people right now who are dying, who have nothing to do with what Hamas did.
“And what is true, I mean, we can go on for a while.
“The problem with social media and TikTok activism and trying to debate this on that, is that you can’t speak the truth.
“You can pretend to speak the truth. You can speak one side of the truth. And in some cases, you can try to maintain your moral innocence.
“But that won’t solve the problem. 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.
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