Well of course Palestinians don't have families. The Israelis have killed most of them.
deliberately too. they specifically murder family members in front of others. they're the worst, most vicious terrorists in recent memory.
Well duh. To be effective, terror demands an audience.
Fuck that war criminal, and fuck the ruling class he served that still exists today
Its Obama, what do you expect from that war criminal?
I take it as the families of Israelis affected by the events of 7 October, and the entirety of the ~~Palestinian~~ Gazan people. How this is dehumanizing language is beyond me tbh.
Analyzing the bias in BBC reporting in Palestine
Western coverage of Gaza: A textbook case of coloniser’s journalism
If you want more on Bias. Also, let's make one thing clear: This isn't a genocide against the Gazan people, it's a genocide against the Palestinian people. Gazans are Palestinians in diaspora. Israel has been working nonstop to ethnically cleanse all Palestinians in Palestine whether that's in Gaza, West Bank, or the rest of the occupied territories. Anyone acting like it's just Gaza or the "Gazans" is part of the problem. It might seem pendantic, but it's too late for some half-assed lip service bullshit, especially from those that have been complicit, enablers, and the primary drivers of this genocide and oppression 100 years in the making.
Palestinians have families, and not only Palestinians in Gaza were harmed by the genocide and ethnic cleansing. There were also pogroms in the West Bank. Obama is bothsiding a genocide as if there is any equivalency between the victim and the aggressor.
This tweet is best understood in the context of the consistently biased media coverage that we've seen over the last few years, in which Israeli deaths and injuries are covered far more frequently and with more emotive language than those of Palestinians. This is despite the fact that the harm to Palestinians is far larger, both in terms of the brutality inflicted upon civilians, and the scale of deaths. This is a genocide.
And yes, I'm using the word "Palestinian", because besides the fact that Palestinians in the West Bank have also been severely affected by this conflict (as well as being systematically oppressed by the apartheid regime even before October 7th), Israeli politicians have made it abundantly clear that complete genocide of Palestinians in their goal.
Wait, wait... Palestinians are mentioned! When he talks about... shared responsibilities. Never mind, go on.
Obama is a war criminal and just another cog in the machine
"Let’s take his statement apart line by line because every sentence in that post was a masterclass in how empire speaks empathy while protecting itself."
https://drstaceypatton1865.substack.com/p/the-elegance-of-empire-how-barack
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Thanks for this link. It's good analysis. I found the tweet so viscerally offensive that I struggled to articulate the specifics of how it was so fucked, so I appreciate seeing someone break it down.
Obama is evil!
Oh man. I'm pretty sure "genocide studies" classes aren't going to be talking about Obama.
Bothsidesing indeed.
Yes, he has a responsibility to both side a conflict as a diplomat trying to maintain influence with Israel, the side that has all the power.
Civilians are always hostages. It'd be more reasonable to call the Palestinians being held hostages than to call the Israeli hostages "prisoners of war". There's also clearly more of a delineation between the IDF and the Israeli civilians than there is in the Gaza populace and the "fighters". Partly because Israelis are the aggressors, of course.
He can't be a person who just rages on social media about it if he wants the best outcome.
You can definitely argue that this is caving to Israel. He's literally being the definition of the word "diplomatic".
In the presence of genocide I believe he can be judged by a more absolute moral barometer, regardless of his role or designation.
How does history reflect on those that remained silent during the Holocaust or Armenian genocide?
Obama seeks to put himself in that group with his assessment here.
He's not a diplomat. He's a guy that has been paid at least tens of millions by israel.
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