The US should “absolutely” use its aid to Israel as a means to put pressure on its government to change course, Vermont progressive Bernie Sanders said on Friday.
Speaking to the centrist Pod Save America podcast, the 2020 presidential candidate said that “Our policy cannot just be pro-Israel, pro-Israel, pro-Israel. It has got to be pro-region working with all of the people, all of the countries in that area and it’s a similar position – and Hillary Clinton and I had a bit of a disagreement on this in 2016 – Saudi Arabia is a vicious ugly dictatorship.”
“I lived in Israel. I worked in a Kibbutz for a number of months. I have family in Israel. I am Jewish. I am not anti-Israel,” Sanders clarified. “I believe that the people of Israel have absolutely the right to live in peace, independence, and security, end of discussion.”
“But I think what has happened is in recent years under Netanyahu you have an extreme right-wing government with many racist tendencies. The role of the United States – and this is not easy – is to try to finally bring peace to the Middle East and to treat the Palestinian people with a kind of respect and dignity they deserve.”
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Anonymous
July 28, 2019 at 9:48 am
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bernie-sanders-blasted-baltimore-as-third-world-country-and-disgrace-in-past-comments
Im embarrassed for his parents to have raised such a menuval. Lying populist capo
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Anonymous
July 28, 2019 at 9:54 am
One more reason not to vote for crazy Bernie
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Anonymous
July 28, 2019 at 10:11 am
What’s the chiddush he is a Jew hater and murderer
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Please ask him
July 28, 2019 at 11:45 am
Between Marxism, Leninism, Trotskyism and Communism, which of these parties does Bernie Sanders affiliate with?
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Mordechai
July 28, 2019 at 12:48 pm
He’s such a piece of trash
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He’s our guru, he’s our swami
He’s our favorite old-time commie
Israel’s what he likes to bash
He’ll legalize your smoking hash
Free school for all’s his holy grail
He’ll march rich folks straight off to jail
No more cars, no fossil fuel
You’ll ride to work on your lame mule
Vote Bernie! He’s our only choice
That finger wag! That foghorn voice!
Please, let’s not make Saint Bernie sad
He’s nobler than Sir Galahad
He’s the best choice of all (by far)
To be Prez of the U.S. (S.R.)
Haha, well done!
Mr. Sanders, so to “bring peace to the Middle East” you’d just get the Jews out of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa, and then, of course, the rest of Israel, and voila! there’s peace.
it seems the nazis had the same middle east peace plan as bernie. how progressive of them!
I too am a jew against the occupation. I would love for all the Arabs/Palestinians who occupy our home land to please leave asap.