r/politics • u/Particular_Log_3594 • 6d ago

No Paywall Obama: Israel 'took the land' from Palestinians, 'ceded moral ground' in Gaza

https://www.jpost.com/international/article-911851
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u/Think-Explanation-75 6d ago edited 6d ago

Only those with a bias will sit here and ignore how many times Obama stood up to Israel during his tenure

https://westerman.house.gov/media-center/blog-post/obama-has-undermined-us-relationship-israel

https://imeu.org/resources/key-issues/ten-egregious-israeli-snubs-of-the-obama-administration/243

I can keep going, but quite frankly, you guys either weren't paying attention because you were still in your anarchist phase or were just oblivious.

Edit: since y’all are too dense to do any more research for yourself here’s a full frontline documentary going over the relationship. Maybe this might be a good enough source for you. Why you couldn’t find this for yourself I will never know

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/netanyahu-at-war/

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u/Kratos-sama 6d ago

What's the deal with so many of you Americans criticizing Obama over Israel. Is it simply a case of people having been too young to remember his presidency? Hell, even Obama's own party didn't support his position on Israel. What the hell did y'all expect him to do anyway? I commend Think-Explanation-75 for being sensible.

https://www.politico.com/blogs/ben-smith/2010/04/schumer-obamas-counter-productive-israel-policy-has-to-stop-026564

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u/GrumpyCloud93 5d ago

The trouble is - what did he do, besides the typical Democrat "strongly worded letter"? Israel still got military support, settled in Palestine unimpeded, and regularly "mowed the grass" (And couldn't figure out why they got attacked by Gaza)

I would have expected US reaction to be a little more forceful. Plus, Obama wimped out on the Syrian gas attack "red line" and did not enough to contain Russia when it took Crimea.

Domestically, Obama was an excellent president.

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u/defaulticus 5d ago

Re: Syria - this irritated me too but I'm 99% certain he thought we'd get sucked into another middle eastern forever war if he did anything and he was dead set against that.

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u/GrumpyCloud93 5d ago

I sort of understand that bit - I guess it boils down to what can you do, the USA is not the policeman of the world much as they sometimes pretend to be.