Obama Re Israel-Hamas War: : Blame America First
Former President Obama’s comments on the Israel-Hamas conflict have stirred controversy and ignited debates on social media platforms. During an interview with alumni of his administration on Pod Save America, Obama shared his perspective on the ongoing war that followed the initial attack, which claimed the lives of 1,400 Israelis on October 7th. While he condemned Hamas’ actions, he also hinted at the importance of understanding the historical context of the conflict – ie., that is might be our fault.
“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. There is a history of the Jewish people that may be dismissed unless you hear stories about the madness of antisemitism. Furthermore, there are people dying right now who have nothing to do with what Hamas did,” Obama stated. “To truly solve the problem, we must acknowledge the whole truth and admit that none of us are entirely without blame.”
However, Obama’s assertion that everyone shares some degree of complicity in the attack sparked outrage on social media. Many users criticized Obama’s own role in the Israel-Hamas conflict, suggesting that his actions had contributed to the ongoing turmoil.
Contributing editor Stephen Miller from The Spectator humorously remarked, “We’ve let him down again.”
RealClearInvestigations senior writer Mark Hemingway added, “Yeah, ‘we’ did not send pallets full of cash to Iran so they could enable Hamas. Obama did that.”
This controversy surrounding Obama’s remarks invites a closer examination of his actions and decisions during his presidency that may have played a role in the Israel-Hamas conflict.
One significant point of contention is Obama’s response to the crisis in Syria. He delivered a strong speech about “red lines” in Syria but appeared to take no decisive action when those lines were crossed. As a result, the Syrian conflict escalated, leading to widespread suffering and creating a power vacuum that allowed Iran and Russia to exert influence in the region.
Additionally, Obama’s approach to Iran has faced criticism. While he framed his efforts as preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, skeptics argue that his policies inadvertently empowered Iran, a country known for exporting terrorism and promoting Holocaust denial. The large sums of money sent to Iran and the subsequent consequences, including loss of life, raise questions about the effectiveness of his approach, which he termed “regional integration.”
One of the most divisive moments occurred during the 2009 Iranian Green Revolution, where Obama’s administration chose not to fully support the pro-democracy protesters. This decision raised questions about America’s role in the face of human rights violations and authoritarian regimes.
Obama’s handling of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has come under scrutiny. In his final term as president, he reversed decades of bipartisan American support for Israel, abstaining from a U.N. vote condemning Israeli settlements and providing substantial financial support to the Palestinian Authority. Critics argue that this funding enabled the controversial “pay-for-slay” program, where large cash payments were made to Palestinians involved in attacks against Jews.
In contrast to Obama, his predecessors and successors from both Democratic and Republican parties have taken clear and unwavering stances in support of Israel during times of crisis. For instance, former President George W. Bush unequivocally condemned Hamas as “cold-blooded killers.” Bill Clinton emphasized the need to rally against terrorism and support Israeli democracy, and President Joe Biden not only defended Israel but also acknowledged the potential for a larger conflict beyond a skirmish between Israel and Hamas.
During his tenure, Obama’s policy in all things was “Blame America First.” Most argue that Obama’s foreign policy decisions were a disaster for the Middle East. And his comments in the past few days show his continued ignorance of how the Middle East wors and, in this writers opinion, an anti-American bias.
Obama should keep his mouth shut. His opinions are irrelevant since he’s aligned with the Israel enemies
Obama always impressed me as an Arab first kind of guy. Look at his own background. By keeping Iran in the chips, Obama and others have simply fueled Hamas and Hezbollah and promoted their terrorist campaigns. Obama needs to do a little soul searching about his own role in supporting terrorism.
ISRAEL IS ITS OWN WORST ENEMY
in a similar way as
HITLER’s REICH WAS ITS OWN WORST ENEMY!
They both claim to be a ABOVE ALL OTHERS:
“GOD’S OWN PEOPLE” – “ARYAN SUPER-RACE”!
Both claim the “RIGHT TO KILL and TAKE LAND”
See Joshua: “NO MAN, WOMAN, CHILD DID WE LET LIVE”!
and before in Shechem (Genesis ch. 34): KILL ALL MALES!
Compare that: IT IS THE SAME: TOTAL GENOCIDE/HOLOCAUST!
AND IF ISRAELIS DO NOT STOP THE NEW HEROD: NETANYAHU
ALL REAL SEMITES WILL, AGAIN, HAVE TO FLEE TO EGYPT.
Not even close to being the same as Hitler. You cherry picked a verse or two in Joshua without reading back in Deuteronomy: “Then God called forth his people out of slavery in Egypt and back to the land of their forefathers, he directed them to kill all the Canaanite clans who were living in the land (Deut. 7.1-2; 20.16-18).
And you also have to look at other things that God told Abraham such as, ““Know for certain that your offspring will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs and will be servants there, and they will be afflicted for four hundred years. . . . And they shall come back here in the fourth generation, for the iniquity of the Amorites [one of the Canaanite clans] is not yet complete” (Gen. 15. 13, 16).
God could very easily had killed the Canaanites all on his own, ended every single life by himself if he wanted to such as in Sodom and Gomorrah. But he chose the Israelite’s most likely because it would give them a sense of ownership because they had to fight for their land. And by the way, those clans were eliminated by battles, it was not a slaughter like Hitler killing Jews with a bullet and letting them fall into a pit or taking them to the gas chamber. No, these were battles that a sovereign God who has the power of life and death commanded of the Israelis.
The God of Israel says, ““As I live, says the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live” (Ez. 33.11). ” The problem was that the Canaanites were very evil, idolators, and they practiced sacrificing their children. So God had pronounced a judgement on them and expected the Israelites to cleans the land through by slaughtering the Canaanites. This is God’s punishment of sin. God did the same thing when he had his son nailed to a cross after a beating and whipping that you and I could never have survived. The price of sin must be paid. That is one of his rules. And we must remember that God holds the power of life and death so he is not bound by our moral judgements. He may take life as he wishes. For example, I have no right to take an innocent life. For me to do so would be murder. But God has no such prohibition. He can give and take life as He chooses. We all recognize this when we accuse some authority who presumes to take life as “playing God.” Human authorities arrogate to themselves rights which belong only to God. God is under no obligation whatsoever to extend my life for another second. If He wanted to strike me dead right now, that’s His prerogative.
Hitler had no such power of life and death. Hitler had no such prerogative. Hitler was playing God. God does not play God, He is God and that is the difference. It is hard for us to understand such judgement of God that cause a population to be eliminated, but God has his reasons. Usually it is to contain the evil so that God can cycle all human lives he has created through the earth and give them the chance to choose him or evil of their own free will.
Israel will stop when God will it of them. Yes innocents will die, especially children which tugs at our moral strings more than anything. It appears that the God of Israel has judged Hamas. And lets not forget that many Palestinians selected Hamas to represent them back in around 2004 to 2007 somewhere. Hamas promised to make Palestinian lives better. They have not. They have been a stumbling block to peace for a long time as they have always been against the two state solution. Hopefully if Hamas is eliminated we will see a new day slowly emerge for the Palestinian peoples. They and the slaughtered Israelis are the true victims. May God have mercy on all of them!
I also think you need to examine Judaism versus Islam.
Now how does all this relate to Islamic jihad? Islam sees violence as a means of propagating the Muslim faith. Islam divides the world into two camps: the dar al-Islam (House of Submission) and the dar al-harb (House of War). The former are those lands which have been brought into submission to Islam; the latter are those nations which have not yet been brought into submission. This is how Islam actually views the world!
By contrast, the conquest of Canaan represented God’s just judgement upon those peoples. The purpose was not at all to get them to convert to Judaism! War was not being used as an instrument of propagating the Jewish faith. Moreover, the slaughter of the Canaanites represented an unusual historical circumstance, not a regular means of behavior.
The problem with Islam, then, is not that it has got the wrong moral theory; it’s that it has got the wrong God. If the Muslim thinks that our moral duties are constituted by God’s commands, then I agree with him. But Muslims and Christians differ radically over God’s nature. Christians believe that God is all-loving, while Muslims believe that God loves only Muslims. Allah has no love for unbelievers and sinners. Therefore, they can be killed indiscriminately. Moreover, in Islam God’s omnipotence trumps everything, even His own nature. He is therefore utterly arbitrary in His dealing with mankind. By contrast Christians hold that God’s holy and loving nature determines what He commands.
The question, then, is not whose moral theory is correct, but which is the true God?
For more, read this great article at : *https://www.reasonablefaith.org/writings/question-answer/slaughter-of-the-canaanites*
Tom likes to quote the Bible as showing how LGBTQ is a sin and sinners be treated accordingly. But it’s not about the person…says he. Now it’s the Bible versus the current situation in the Middle East as if the Bible will tell all, explain all. Tom, God granted free will upon man, one of his greatest gifts. Use it. Read the Bible, look at the facts, make your choice. But you just can’t believe the Bible as the word of God and irrefutable. After all, the Bible was written by men.
The Bible says a lot of things that seem out of place in the modern world, or sometimes the ancient one too. For example, it’s got camels everywhere doing the bidding of man when they did not appear as domesticated for centuries after than Biblical fact.
It also claims in the Book of Genesis that the Philistines lived during Abraham, except archeologists say they got there 4 centuries after Abraham.
The Book of Zechariah has it’s great earthquake occurring two centuries AFTER it can be recorded by scientists. Since it’s talking this date in terms of the end of time, a century or two might be critical.
From Leviticus, and I will let you spot the errors: “All flying insects that walk on all fours are to be detestable to you. There are, however, some winged creatures that walk on all fours that you may eat: those that have jointed legs for hopping on the ground. Of these you may eat any kind of locust, katydid, cricket or grasshopper. But all other winged creatures that have four legs you are to detest.” Chow down…..
“Matthew 13:31 Another parable put he [Jesus] forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field:
Matthew 13:32:1 Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.” First, there are more “least-ers of seeds,” plenty. And tree?
I think the Bible has the Israelite Exodus during the mid-15th century BC with their Canaan conquest at the end of that century which historians and scientists indicate is the wrong period of time. The very timing of the existence of Israel has been in contention from the day it was first written.
Point is the Bible is a fabulous place for learning one’s faith. Not so much on each and every factoid presented.
Obama is a SUPER GOOF . . . Doesn’t know what he’s TALKING about.
JESUS CHRIST LOVES YOU
AND HE DIED FOR OUR SINS
JESUS CHRIST LOVES YOU
AND HE DIED FOR UUR SINS.