I'll never forget the fact that when @BarackObama published his first written statement about Hamas's 10/7 massacre of Jews, he felt the need to say the words, "Nobody's hands are clean." I'll never forget it, and I'll never forgive it. And, yes -- he actually said that.
@BarackObama I'll also never forget or forgive this: nypost.com/2023/12/22/new…
Correction: Obama’s “Nobody’s hands are clean” statement may have been his second statement, following an initial statement several days after 10/7 (on 10/9) in which he apparently felt the need to include a remark about “Israelis and Palestinians alike.”
The point stands: Obama chose not to express sympathy for the actual victims — Jews and Israelis — and had to “All Lives Matter”* the bloodiest day for Jews since the Holocaust.
His statement “Nobody’s hands are clean,” in his subsequent statement, never should have been made — and that was indeed his first long-form statement, published on Medium.
*If you think that “All Lives Matter”-style statements are appropriate in general, that is fine. I actually do not care. That is not the point. The point is that when people in any other minority group were targeted or even just felt targeted, Barack Obama made specific, focused statements in defense and support of the particular ethnic, racial, religious, cultural or national origin group in question.
But when Hamas butchered over 1,000 Jews, Obama refused to make a statement focused solely on Jews and Israelis. That was a calculated choice — and it made clear that he didn’t think Jews or Israelis were entitled to the same level of defense and support as all other ethnic, racial, religious, cultural, and national origin groups.
The point stands: Obama chose not to express sympathy for the actual victims — Jews and Israelis — and had to “All Lives Matter”* the bloodiest day for Jews since the Holocaust.
His statement “Nobody’s hands are clean,” in his subsequent statement, never should have been made — and that was indeed his first long-form statement, published on Medium.
*If you think that “All Lives Matter”-style statements are appropriate in general, that is fine. I actually do not care. That is not the point. The point is that when people in any other minority group were targeted or even just felt targeted, Barack Obama made specific, focused statements in defense and support of the particular ethnic, racial, religious, cultural or national origin group in question.
But when Hamas butchered over 1,000 Jews, Obama refused to make a statement focused solely on Jews and Israelis. That was a calculated choice — and it made clear that he didn’t think Jews or Israelis were entitled to the same level of defense and support as all other ethnic, racial, religious, cultural, and national origin groups.
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