Washington – U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders said the United States is “complicit” in Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.
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“(B)ut that is not to say … that Israel is the only party at fault,” Sanders, an independent senator from Virginia, said in an interview with The Intercept news website published on Friday evening.
Sanders also said that “in terms of Israeli-Palestinian relations the United States has got to play a much more even-handed role. Clearly that is not the case right now.”
Sanders ran against Hillary Clinton for the Democratic Party’s nomination for president for the 2016 election. He was the first Jewish candidate to win major party nominating contests. It is not known if he will run again for the 2020 elections.
In answer to a specific question from reporter Mehdi Hasan, Sanders said he would consider voting to reduce the United States’ annual at least $3 billion in aid to Israel or reduce U.S. arms sales to the Israeli military.
“The U.S. funding plays a very important role, and I would love to see people in the Middle East sit down with the United States government and figure out how U.S. aid can bring people together, not just result in an arms war in that area. So I think there is extraordinary potential for the United States to help the Palestinian people rebuild Gaza and other areas. At the same time, demand that Israel, in their own interests in a way, work with other countries on environmental issues.”
“So the answer is yes,” he concluded.
Sanders in a speech on Thursday at Westminster College, in Fulton, Missouri, defended the Iran nuclear deal signed by the Obama administration in 2015.
“We must protect this deal,” Sanders said.
Bernie, you lost. No one is listening to you.
Interesting that all these has-beens are getting media coverage, and all seem to say the same cursed ideas, blaming Israel. We wish Sanders, Kerry, Carter and a bunch of others their speedy misa meshunah.
Well, yeah. Obviously.
His “Israel” experience was living in a hashomeir hazair kubbutz and his wuife is not Jewish. He reflects his life style
Crusty, old, and irrelevant……
Bernie, you smell from earth, go there, already !!!
He needs to go on a fact finding tour of Israel. And, he needs to be rid of Sarsour!
What do you want from a “tinok shenishbor”? He has little knowledge of yiddishkeit and little jewish identity. His whole life is based on an assinmilated leftist philosophy. We all know yidden like him. They can be our biggest enemies.
I agree 100% with #3, that Bernie Sanders is a self hating Jew. For example, during the campaign in 2016, he had the gall to state that “his parents were Polish immigrants”. He intentionally omitted stating that they “were Jewish immigrants who came from Poland”. In fact, their fellow countrymen in Poland did not consider them as Poles, but as Jews. Secondly, he had the gall to campaign in his former neighborhood (the Flatbush section of Brooklyn), on Shabbos. There are many Shomer Shabbos Jews who live, where he campaigned. One would have thought that he would have shown some respect for them, by not campaigning on Shabbos. Even Senator Ted Cruz, and Senator Marco Rubio showed more respect for frum Jews, by going into Borough Park, and Crown Heights, and visiting frum businesses. Sanders wouldn’t do that, as he did not want to identify with observant Jews.
Bernie is from Vermont
His views are becoming the mainstream views of the democrat party
Vote Republican
Wow, did G-d protect us by not allowing him to own the election!!!!