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For the people who don't understand the post:
Holy shit, something is broken in people's brains. He said "Israeli families and the people of Gaza" he's giving a message about peace and you're nitpicking it because you want to find a reason to hate people.
If anything he's excluding people in Israel because he didn't say "people of Israel" and only expressing sympathy for the families of the victims of Hamas. Also if he were to say "Palestinian people" that would be implying that this ceasefire plan is also dealing with problems in the West Bank, which it is not.
Obama is correct, this is a ceasefire for the families of the victims of Hamas and for the people of Gaza, but not for all Israelis or all Palestinians. There's still a lot more work to do. But go ahead and write your petty and hateful comments and pretend you're helping Palestinians when you're not helping anyone.
Denying Palestinians a communal identity has always been a key approach to dehumanization within Western discourse.
The Western world has historically tied itself into knots justifying horrific atrocities like the Atlantic slave trade while trying to present itself as a champion of personal freedoms.
Indeed. And also he is putting a few people who have a relative guarding the concentration camp on the same level of suffering as the people in the concentration camp undergoing a Holocaust. This is not a both sides moment.