Former President Barack Obama suggested that in the case of the war between Israel and Hamas, “nobody’s hands are clean.”
Former U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at an event hosted by the Obama Foundation in New York in November 2022. | Spencer Platt/Getty Imagesand reflection. Celebrating the 15-year anniversary of the 44th president’s historic rise to the White House, former aides gathered in Chicago in recent days, and the former president — who has generally kept a low profile since leaving office — is stepping into the spotlight for interviews and speeches.
“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, arguing that the entire world bears responsibility for allowing the decades-long conflict to fester. Indeed, the remarks are a striking jab at not only Israel, but against Obama’s own former vice president.
Even more eye-popping are the blunt words he chose — “nobody’s hands are clean” — which will almost certainly be used by critics of Israel as they push for a ceasefire. They may even quickly be lumped into those notorious, evocative phrases politicians used in moments of passions, such as Bush’s notorious “mission accomplished.”
United States Latest News, United States Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Israel-Hamas war live updates: Strike on refugee camp leaves 33 dead, Hamas saysThis is additional taxonomy that helps us with analytics
Read more »
Israel-Hamas war live updates and analysis: Israel releases graphic footage of music festival massacreSecretary of State Antony Blinken says humanitarian pauses are important for protecting civilians
Read more »
Israel-Hamas war: Israel claims responsibility to an attack on an ambulance outside hospital in GazaIsrael claimed responsibility for an attack on an ambulance that was outside of a hospital in Gaza.
Read more »
Blinken’s Mideast tour to seek support for postwar GazaIsrael’s Netayahu rejected the US calls for a humanitarian pause to the conflict with Hamas.
Read more »
Israel-Hamas war live updates: Blinken in Jordan for talks; U.N. condemns ambulance strikesThis is additional taxonomy that helps us with analytics
Read more »
‘Nobody’s hands are clean’: Obama urges reflection amid Israel-Hamas conflictObama previously spoke out on the conflict, saying in a statement that any actions by Israel that ignore the human cost of the war against Hamas “could ultimately backfire.”
Read more »