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Former President Barack Obama cautioned against ignoring the complexities of the Israel-Hamas war, warning that “all of us are complicit.”

“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,” he said in an excerpted interview with Pod Save America released Saturday.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Even if it was a misfired Palestinian rocket, which still isn't proven btw, it doesn't outweigh the 30+ hospitals that Israel has bombed to this day, or for that matter the fucking refugee camp they bombed last week.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I mean it does though because of the claim of 500 dead bodies that magically appeared and then (not a joke) dissolved like salt into water once it was clear it was IJ at fault and not the IDF.

Israel has largely been pinpoint with its strikes and when you compare it's released maps of Gaza's tunnel networks from the last war with the BBC's map of its airstrikes it's very clear what they're doing.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

or for that matter the fucking refugee camp they bombed last week

I was confused by this initially too (I read the headline and imagined a tent city for people fleeing this current war, but then the photo was of a city block with like 5 story buildings) but it's only called a "refugee camp" because it was originally a site where refugees gathered after the 1948 war, in the modern day it's more or less an urban neighborhood of Gaza with a population (at one point) of 100,000 just like any other part of the city