In Barack Obama’s recent speech in Belfast, he made a number of false statements about Israel and the “Palestinians.”
“Israel ‘took the land’ from Palestinians, has ‘ceded moral ground,’ Obama tells Belfast crowd,” Jerusalem Post, October 15, 2026:
In a conversation with journalist Susan McKay, the former president referred to the Palestinians’ reaction to the Jewish people’s exerting cultural and military control over the State of Israel by explaining that “those people understandably said, ‘This is injustice, and I want my land back.'”
The “land” the “Palestinians” want back has been the Jewish homeland since 1500 B.C. Jews have been living on that land uninterruptedly, albeit often in small numbers, since then. And the League of Nations recognized the Jewish attachment to the land when it created the Mandate for Palestine in 1921, assigning to it all the territory between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. When the UN replaced the League of Nations, it committed itself in Article 20 of its Charter (called “the Jewish people’s article”) to bring to their intended conclusion any mandates then still extant; the only one was the Palestine Mandate.
McKay asked Obama about the current state of the conflict in the Middle East surrounding the State of Israel. The hostility toward Israel after the October 7 massacre was an indication that a “genuine cessation” was needed in order for long-term solutions to be implemented, the former president responded.
“The fact is,” Obama explained, “that the Jewish people, for millennia, were oppressed, discriminated against, killed. Europe was responsible for much of it. They understandably sought a refuge.”
“If the attitude of Israel is, now that we are the strongest, the most technologically advanced in the region, then our security will depend on us simply doing whatever we need and taking whatever we want, and not making any concessions to anyone,” Obama continued. “That may work short-term… but you have ceded moral ground if that is the position you take.”…
Not “making concessions to anyone”? Jews lived in the Land of Israel for 3500 years, some 2000 years before a single Arab appeared in the area. Yet Israeli Jews have not chased the Arabs out of Israel, where two million of them now live. Nor have they removed the two million Arabs who live in Gaza, or the three million who live in Judea and Samaria. And the Israelis have repeatedly offered generous territorial settlements to the Arabs. First, it was the Jews who accepted the UN’s Partition Plan in 1947 that the Arabs rejected. Then Israel offered a peace agreement to the Arabs after the Six-Day War, with the Arabs replying with the “Three Nos of Khartoum” — “No to peace, No to recognition, No to negotiation” with Israel. This was in effect a denial of Israel’s right to exist.
Has Israel “ceded moral ground” to the “Palestinians”? Haven’t the “Palestinians” committed atrocity after atrocity against Israeli civilians? Thousands of terrorist attacks carried out against pizza parlors full of mothers and children, against airports full of travelers, against aging participants, some of them Holocaust survivors, at Passover seders, against children at a school in Ma’alot, against buses filled with passengers. And most recently, there are the atrocities that Hamas committed on October 7, 2023, that included beheading babies, gang-raping young girls and sticking knives in their vaginas before murdering them, tying families up with wire and burning them alive, slicing off the breasts of women, cutting off the genitalia of men, gouging out the eyes of both men and women. It would have been immoral not to go after the murderers as the IDF has so heroically done, all the while making tremendous efforts to save civilian lives by dropping millions of leaflets, sending millions of text messages, and making millions of robocalls to warn Gazan civilians away from sites soon to be targeted.
“The citizenry of Israel has to rethink, to reimagine, how your children and grandchildren are going to live in this region. Are you just going to be behind walls and wipe out everybody around you, or are you going to find some just way of defending yourself while still acting in an ethical, moral way?” the former president said.
Why does Obama accuse Israel of trying to “wipe out everyone around you”? He must know that because of its warnings to civilians, the IDF has managed to attain the civilian-to-combatant ratio of 1:1, which no military in history has ever before achieved. The UN has said that in all the wars fought since 1945, the civilian-to-combatant ratio has been, on average, 9:1. In Afghanistan, it was brought down by the Americans to 4:1, and in Iraq to 3:1.
But he is Barack Obama. He need not be troubled by the facts.
somehistory says
A putrid liar. He’ had his fifteen minutes. Now he should go away and shut up.
Beans🫘 says
1. Obama ignores the fact. The obvious fact. Hamas, Hezbollah. Houthi subhumans and others in fact attacked Israel first. There was no October 6 attacks on Obama’s friends.
2. The Arabs came relatively late to the Holy Land any way you choose to look at it. Shortly after Muhammad’s death, they invaded the area and settled in and converted locals. The Horde there today is rally descended mostly from invaders, as wells as much later settlers from Egypt who came to mooch off Israel’s success.
3. The Palestinians do NOT want a State. That is totally disproven by a simple google search. Every time they were offered one they refused. They want to scam and steal from donors and make trouble in hopes of taking the entire holy land. Meanwhile, they want to make trouble and kill people, and wonder when these people chose to defend themselves.
4. Obama does not know. Gaza at once point had no wall. The West Bank was open to Israel as well. People came across to work and visit relatives….. that’s when all the bus attacks and terror reigned all over Israel. Those walls guaranteed security and are relatively new to keep the horde out. When you’re sorrounded by hordes, you put walls, that’s historical fact.
5. Any deal with any Islamic country is worthless. Take Israel completely out of the equation, and forget about it. Every single Islamic country has had a war with its Islamic neighbors, or has had serious conflict on the brink of war. Look at Iraq for example, Iran, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Syria all had trouble with it. Look at Obama’s Iran. In only the past 3 years, Iran has gone to war with Pakistan, Afghanistan, Qatar, UAE, Saudi Arabia , Kuwait. Yes Pakistan and Iran had a war 2 years ago. What do you expect for Israel if they kill each other? Even the best of them are in conflict. Saudi Arabia and uae are strong rivals. Saudi Arabia hates qatar and Yemen. Sudan is at civil war. The Muslims in Yemen five six armies are there . Somalia is in four parts. There is no deal worth anything Obama.
The two threats says
Muslims have zero claim or entitlement over the area of modern day Israel, Gaza or the West Bank.
Muslims invaded the area in 636 and laid seige to Jerusalem.
The Muslims, as then settler colonialists, captured Jerusalem in 637/38 from the Byzantines and Caliph Umar traveled to Jerusalem in person to receive the surrender of the city from the Christian patriarch.
Contemporary Arab Palestinians should go back to Arabia, where they are originally from. Or Jordan.
The Jews should take over Judea, the area after which the Jews are named and the rest of the West Bank. And Gaza.
beeaware says
Obama is Satan, a wanna be Muslim. When Israel protects Israel, forced to retaliate, dealing with Satanic forces of Hamas, the IDF does what it has to do, to protect God’s people. Wipe Hama off the face of the earth, it’s where they belong, in hell, with Satan.