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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    11 months ago

    Voluntarily releasing reports on civilian casualties doesn’t seem like they thought it wasn’t a problem

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      11 months ago

      “Sorry everyone, look how bad we are. We killed all these people, and we’re going to kill more. Aren’t we bad?”

      That doesn’t really show any concern.

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      11 months ago

      Sounds like circular reasoning, if the proposition is that you can gauge the acceptability of the killings based on how public they were about the killings. Any number of killings could be “acceptable” if that’s the public’s basis for judging their acceptability, that they were disclosed.

      Sort of like judging the IDF’s credibility by evaluating them on the basis of information/disinformation they released about themselves and about Hamas.