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Obama’s Condescending Israel Statement Reflects His Presidency’s Failures

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Then-president Barack Obama meets with Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House in 2011.

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The more things change, the more they stay the same. For Barack Obama, that means — even after six and a half years out of office — a pseudo-intellectual, equivocating statement on the Hamas attack on Israel and the Jewish state’s response, imbued with a characteristic miasma of self-satisfaction.

On Monday, Obama published a long-winded post on his Medium page, the platform through which he disseminates his opinions and pronouncements on current events in a manner that would have scandalized ex-presidents in a time not too long ago. Monday’s screed came after an initial October 9 note:

Zach Kessel

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Zach Kessel

Zach Kessel was a William F. Buckley Jr. Fellow in Political Journalism and a recent graduate of Northwestern University.

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