Published November 12, 2023
It doomed his own attempts to effect any improvement in Arab-Jewish relations or American-Muslim relations.
President Obama’s pandering to sentiments of moral equivalence between Hamas terrorists, violating a truce and murdering Israeli children and women in the most brutal possible manner, and Israeli soldiers conducting operations designed to destroy Hamas, is the most startling development we have yet had of the former president’s shortcomings as an American geopolitical strategist.
It has been a fact of American history since its earliest days as an independent country that recourse to armed combat, if it entailed any significant number of American casualties, had to be justifiable both in terms of the country’s national interest and its national ethos as a peace-loving country that never took up arms for morally unjustifiable purposes.
Where the United States was not directly involved, it could only justify assistance to foreign powers engaged in armed combat where it met the dual criteria of supporting the American national interest and according with its national ethos.
In 1940 and 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt concluded that a German victory in Europe including subjugation of Great Britain would create an immense danger to the United States and that in any case, British monarchical and parliamentary democracy was overwhelmingly a preferable system to the racist totalitarian state of Nazi Germany.
Accordingly, while purporting to maintain American neutrality, he extended American territorial waters to 1,800 miles from three miles, ordered the United States Navy to attack on detection any German ship, sold the British 50 destroyers in the middle of the 1940 election campaign, and produced a measure shortly after his election to an unprecedented third term that gave Britain and Canada anything they wished and a repayment plan that accommodated their abilities.
It was a pretty idiosyncratic definition of neutrality, but he carried national opinion with him and was decisive in keeping Britain and Canada in the war until the Axis attacked the Soviet Union and America, creating an invincible Allied coalition. Though the conditions are obviously extremely different, the current Israeli action is in the same category.
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SOURCE: www.nysun.com
RELATED: Bill Maher Slams Obama’s “Moral Equivalency” on Hamas-Israel War-“When They Fired at Israel. It’s a War. When Israel Fires Back, it’s a War Crime”
Published November 12, 2023
On Friday’s episode of “Real Time” host Bill Maher took a swipe at former President Obama for comments he made this week about the Israel-Hamas war and shared his disappointment in the former President’s “moral equvalency.”
On Pod Save America, Obama said that “all of us are complicit” for the escalated violence in the Middle East following the Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel that began on October 7th.
“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,” he said. “If you want to solve the problem, then you have to take in the whole truth. And then you have to admit nobody’s hands are clean, that all of us are complicit to some degree.”
Maher said during a panel discussion with guests Jordan Peterson and New York Times opinion columnist Pamela Paul, “I must say I am struggling with people’s moral equivalency still. I mean, Barack Obama, who has rarely disappointed me, did so this week… I mean, his statement, it’s not a horrible statement, but he said, ‘If you want to solve the problem, then you have to take in the whole truth and then you have to admit nobody’s hands are clean.’ Literally, that’s true, of course. But just giving two examples where this is I don’t think a helpful statement at this moment. First of all, the attack was only a month ago. A more savage attack than we’ve ever seen in reverse. There’s a big difference between collateral damage and what Hamas did.”
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SOURCE: www.thegatewaypundit.com
RELATED: Bill Maher says Obama ‘disappointed me’ for ‘moral equivalency’ claims about Israel and Hamas
Published November 11, 2023
Talk show host Bill Maher said he disagreed with former President Barack Obama‘s characterization of the war between Israel and Hamas.
Maher said he was disappointed with Biden and is “struggling with people’s moral equivalency still” during a panel discussion on his show Real Time with Bill Maher Friday. The host pointed specifically to a statement Obama made during an episode of Pod Save America earlier in the week.
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,” Obama said. “If you want to solve the problem, then you have to take in the whole truth. And then you have to admit nobody’s hands are clean, that all of us are complicit to some degree.”
“I mean, Barack Obama, who has rarely disappointed me, did so this week,” Maher said and quoted from the statement. “Literally, that’s true, of course. But just giving two examples where this is, I don’t think, a helpful statement at this moment. First of all, the attack was only a month ago. A more savage attack than we’ve ever seen in reverse. There’s a big difference between collateral damage and what Hamas did.”
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SOURCE: www.WashingtonExaminer.com
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