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Former US President Barack Obama has called for a two-way understanding of the Israeli-Hamas war, criticizing social media narratives about the conflict and insisting that "nobody's hands are clean".
Speaking in an interview with his former staffers on Saturday, Obama said that the October 7 attacks by Hamas on Israeli communities were "horrific" and that what is happening to the Palestinians is "intolerable", writes Al Jazeera.
"If there's any chance that we're going to be able to act, constructively, to do something, it's going to require an acceptance of the complexity and holding on to what on the surface might seem like a contradictory idea: That what Hamas did was terrible — and there's no excuse for it — and what's also true is that the occupation and what's happening to the Palestinians is intolerable," Obama said in an interview with the Pod Save America podcast.
"And what's also true is that there is a history of the Jewish people that can be downloaded if your grandparents or your great-grandparents or your uncle or aunt don't tell you stories about the insanity of anti-Semitism," Obama said, adding it was also true that those killed in Gaza included Palestinians who "had nothing to do with what Hamas did."
Obama, who took office as president on promises to resolve the Israel-Palestine conflict, also criticized "TikTok activism" that he said ignored the complexity of the issue.
"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 will not solve the problem .
And so, if you want to solve the problem, you have to accept the whole truth and you have to accept that no one's hands are clean, that we are all complicit to some extent," Obama declared .
Obama: "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...
— Yonah Lieberman ???? (@YonahLieberman) November 4, 2023
"You have to admit that all of us are complicit to some degree." pic.twitter.com/FtAGFAexz1
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