Former President Barack Obama said a way forward for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is only possible if people acknowledge the “complexity” of the situation.

“If there’s any chance of us being able to act constructively to do something, 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 … that the occupation and what’s happening to Palestinians is unbearable,” Obama said in an interview on the podcast “Pod Save America.”

The former president’s comments come as the Israeli military focuses its offensive against Hamas in Gaza City and northern parts of the enclave.

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    1 year ago

    Jews have zero claim to that land. There are original Palestinian jews and the israeli government is literally racist against them. This has nothing to do with ancestry. The israelis are mostly Eastern European or American jews. There is a good reason why Netanyahu looks so much like Putin.

    israel’s borders are not accepted at all. Only countries half way across the globe from them accept their borders.

    The only just solution is a one state solution with the returnal of the Palestinian land to the Palestinians. Just like the returnal of Crimean land to the Ukrainians.

    Crazy how people are actually defending colonists as if they’re now rightful owners to land because they’ve been committing genocide for long enough.

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      70 % of the Jews living in Israel currently were born there. And about 20 % of Israelis are non-Jewish Arabs.

      More than half of the Jews in Israel are Mizrahi. Your theory of European colonizers populating Israel is factually incorrect.