‘Nobody’s hands are clean’: Obama urges reflection amid Israel-Hamas conflict - eviltoast

Former President Barack Obama cautioned against ignoring the complexities of the Israel-Hamas war, warning that “all of us are complicit.”

“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 in an excerpted interview with Pod Save America released Saturday.

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    1 year ago

    Normal in the modern era.

    In the 1800s they’d run as senators after their presidential terms if they were young enough.

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      1 year ago

      In the 1800s running for Senate basically meant looking intimidatingly at the statehouse and daring them to explain to the voters why they said no to the former president from their state that those voters probably supported overwhelmingly