Watch: Obama Denies He Caused ‘Major Rupture’ With Israel in Final Interview

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In his last interview on network TV as president, Barack Obama discussed with CBS’s 60 Minutes his time as POTUS, Trump and the “unusual” presidential transition.

Steve Kroft asked him, “A few weeks ago you allowed the U.N. Security Council to pass a resolution condemning Israel’s settlements in the West Bank. It caused a major fallout between the United States and Israel. Was it your decision to abstain?”

Obama: “Yes, ultimately.”

Kroft: “Why did you feel like you had to do that?”

Obama: “Well, first of all, Steve, I don’t think it caused a major rupture in relations between the United States and Israel. If you’re saying that Prime Minister Netanyahu got fired up, he’s been fired up repeatedly during the course of my presidency, around the Iran deal and around our consistent objection to settlements. So that part of it wasn’t new. And despite all the noise and hullabaloo– military cooperation, intelligence cooperation, all of that has continued. We have defended them consistently in every imaginable way. But I also believe that both for our national interests and Israel’s national interests that allowing an ongoing conflict between Israelis and Palestinians that could get worse and worse over time is a problem. And that settlements contribute. They’re not the sole reason for it, but they’re a contributing factor to the inability to solve that problem. And–”

Kroft: “And you wanted to make that point?”

Obama: “Not only did I want to make that point. We are reaching a tipping where the pace of settlements, during the course of my presidency has gotten so substantial that it’s getting harder and harder to imagine an effective, contiguous Palestinian state. And I think it would have long-term consequences for peace and security in the region, and the United States, because of our investment in the region, and because we care so deeply about Israel, I think has a legitimate interest in saying to a friend, “This is a problem.” And we’ve said it– look, it’s not as if we haven’t been saying it from Day One. We’ve been saying it for eight years now. It’s just that nothing seemed to get a lot of attention.”

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5 COMMENTS

  1. This man has been denying so many truths, and inventing so many facts, that even when he says something honestly (it could happen once, you know), he has zero credibility.

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