https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/10/obama-gifts-hamas-ready-made-excuse-next-terror/
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. To maintain any form of strained credibility, even many leftists will say Israel has the right to defend itself.
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 …
By the fourth paragraph, the former president was finishing up with his condemnation of Hamas by saying its “military operations are deeply embedded within Gaza — and its leadership seems to intentionally hide among civilians, thereby endangering the very people they claim to represent.”
Bad Hamas, right? That’s what it looks like on the surface. The subtext suggests that for the Israelis to accomplish their goal, they will have to march into heavily populated Gaza and indiscriminately kill civilians. This, the Obama narrative seems to suggest, is unacceptable.