Leftist critics of Israel are fond of playing the oppressor card. It allows them to talk out of both sides of their mouths.
You’d have to be crazy to come right out and say Israel had the horrific massacre of some 1,400 of its people — including civilian women, the elderly and babies — coming.
On the other hand, to appease the anti-Semites in their ranks, they will warn Israel that it has to play fair and not go too far in its response to the raping of its women and the butchering of Israeli babies.
Why? Because Israelis are framed by leftists as colonizing oppressors who, at the end of the day, deserve what they get.
Former President Barack Obama — known for his oratory skills in saying one thing and meaning another — is in lockstep with the Israeli as oppressor narrative.
In a statement published Monday on Medium, Obama started with the familiar line that “Israel has a right to defend its citizens” and root out Hamas following its “horrific” surprise attack on Oct. 7.
However, it didn’t take long for Obama to shift gears. The third paragraph began, “But even as we support Israel, we should also be clear that how Israel prosecutes this fight against Hamas matters.
There’s the shift. Israel has the right to respond to the brutalization of innocents, but …
What Obama does not say is more telling than what he does say. He never says what Israel should do, just what it shouldn’t do — attacking Gaza will mean the death of innocent Palestinian civilians, so don’t do it. That would mean Israel would have to give up on rooting out Hamas.
Failure to hold Hamas accountable would be the same as inviting another attack on Israeli civilians. That’s what terrorists do.
By the fifth paragraph, Obama geared up to give Hamas a ready-made excuse for its next terrorist attack, warning that “any Israeli military strategy that ignores the human costs could ultimately backfire.”
“Already, thousands of Palestinians have been killed in the bombing of Gaza, many of them children,” he lectured. “Hundreds of thousands have been forced from their homes.
I’m not sure where Obama gets his news. Maybe Al Jazeera? Whatever the case, he clearly was trying to shift blame from Hamas to Israel. Are we now to see Israel as the terrorists?
The former president wasn’t finished. His next move was declaring the Palestinians as oppressed by the colonizing Israelis. To make this point, he went on a bit of a rant.
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