#TimScott threatened to take away federal funding from universities who allowed pro-Palestinian demonstrators on campus, worse he threatens to deport anyone who spoke out against Israel actions.

Again, I say, #MoreThanOneThingCanBeTrue what #Hamas did was #Terrorism, plain & simple. #Antisemitism is wrong. The #Palestinians are & have long been suffering. All of these things can be true.

#RepublicanDebate

“Even what I just said, which sounds very persuasive, still doesn’t answer the fact of, all right, how do we prevent kids from being killed today?” he said. “But the problem is that if you are dug in on that, well, the other side is dug in remembering the videos that #Hamas took or what they did on the 7th, & they’re dug in, too, which means we will not stop those kids from dying.”

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#Israel #Israelis #Palestinians #MoreThanOneThingCanBeTrue #Reductive #Vilification #antisemitism #Islamophobia

He continued: “& what is also true is that there is a history of the #Jewish people that may be dismissed unless your grandparents or your great-grandparents, or your uncle or your aunt tell you stories about the madness of #antisemitism. & what is true is that there are people right now who are dying, who have nothing to do w/what #Hamas did.”

Still, #Obama appeared to acknowledge the limits of his musings about bridging #divides & embracing #complexity.

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#MoreThanOneThingCanBeTrue

He blamed #SocialMedia for #amplifying the #divisions & reducing a thorny #international dispute to what he viewed as #sloganeering.

Yet he urged his fmr aides to “take in the #WholeTruth,” seemingly attempting to strike a balance between the killings on both sides.

“What #Hamas did was horrific, & there’s no justification for it,” #Obama said. “& what is also true is that the #occupation & what’s happening to #Palestinians is unbearable.”

#MoreThanOneThingCanBeTrue #RacistOpportunists

He left office after yrs of friction & mistrust w/PM #Netanyahu of #Israel, who was frustrated by the president’s masterminding of the #Iran nuclear deal & by his demands that Israel suspend new #settlements.

In his comments, delivered at a gathering of his fmr staff in Chicago, #Obama acknowledged the strong emotions the #war had raised, saying that “this is century-old stuff that’s coming to the fore.”

#MoreThanOneThingCanBeTrue #Complex #geopolitics #InternationalRelations

“I look at this, & I think back, ‘What could I have done during my presidency to move this forward, as hard as I tried?’” he said in an interview conducted by his fmr staffers for their podcast, Pod Save America. “But there’s a part of me that’s still saying, ‘Well, was there something else I could have done?’”

#Obama entered the WH convinced he could be the president who would resolve the decades-old conflict between #Israelis & #Palestinians.

#MoreThanOneThingCanBeTrue #Complex #geopolitics