A video where Obama mentions the difficulty of maintaining hope during the Israel-Hamas conflict regarding the consequences of the mass killing of Israeli citizens on October 7, 2023
The forty-fourth president, Barack Obama, delivered remarks in Chicago where he noted that the world feels “more unstable and more dangerous” than it has in a long time, referencing the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas. He adds that it is hard to be hopeful during this time and that the images of families mourning and bodies pulled from rubble “force a moral reckoning on all of us.”.