• Xanza@lemm.eeEnglish
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      4 days ago

      Yes. There are several recent instances where he’s “slamming” Israel. And then 3 decades where they’re best friends, including up to the end of 2024…

        • 3abas@lemm.ee
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          3 days ago

          I’d like to see the United States pressing Israel more on the Palestinian issue

          Ohhh thanks Bernie, you’re so progressive! You’re almost as pro Palestinian as Ethan Klein!

          Kibbutz Bernie is a liberal Zionist. He thinks being Jewish grants you a special right to steal and live in Palestinian land while they suffer as stateless refugees spread out around the world and labeled terrorists for resisting. He just has a problem with slaughtering them in the open, but living on and benefiting from their ethnically cleansed land is perfectly A-OK.

          From the river to the mother fucking sea, Palestine must be free! Jewish Nazis are not somehow better than Christian Nazis.

          • 13igTyme@lemmy.world
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            3 days ago

            Since your too stupid to read. I’ll highlight it for you.

            While the Haaretz article reports that Sanders lost his connection to “Israel, Zionism, and Judaism” after this period, there is no evidence for this claim. However, the fact that Bernie Sanders has not been vocal about his time in Israel and his campaign’s reticence to comment on the subject might indicate Sanders’ discontent or even shame about this experience. There are no reports that he ever went back to Israel.

            In fact, during his earlier political career, Sanders expressed strong criticisms against the State of Israel. In 1988, during a press conference endorsing Jesse Jackson’s campaign for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination, Bernie Sanders strongly criticized Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians. “It is an absolute disgrace, it goes without saying, soldiers of any nation especially an occupying power, are not allowed under any moral code to break the arms and legs of people, that is absolutely unacceptable period. And that type of behavior must be condemned” Sanders said. After some pressure from the audience, he even suggested that the United States could use its “clout” of military aid to induce change, “or else you begin to cut off arms.” It was even reported later in the same year that Sanders said “the policy that Israelis shoot people is unacceptable. It is wrong that the United States provides arms to Israel.” There are also reports that Sanders advocated “no guns for Israel” in the 1970s (a sentiment he also reportedly repeated in 1988 when he was running for a seat in US Congress), and that he called for “a Palestinian Homeland” in 1990. Actually, at the beginning of his congressional career, Sanders voted in 1991 to withhold $82.5 million in US aid to Israel unless it stopped its settlement activity in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. In 2001, he refused to support a House resolution blaming Palestinians for all the violence. In 2004, Sanders opposed a resolution supporting Israel’s annexation wall in the West Bank, deemed illegal by the International Court of Justice.

            • 3abas@lemm.ee
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              2 days ago

              Thank you for the insult.

              Bernie Sanders and all liberal Zionists swing around their bullshit support for a “two state solution” or a “homeland for Palestinians” as secondary to ensuring “the Jews” (conflating Zionism with Judaism is antisemitism) maintain their “safety and security” on illegally stolen Palestinian land.

              They’ll keep talking about supporting us so morons like you can insist that we do in fact have support, as our land is shrunk, our kids are slaughtered and the future of our people and culture are clear as day: running out of time.

              Bernie is a Jewish supremacist like all Zionists, there is no other reason to keep repeating the same bullshit lines that demand from all US government stooges, there’s no reason Bernie keeps repeating that “Israel has the right to defend itself.”

              No. It doesn’t. Israel is a state committing genocide against children it keeps in a concentration camp after ethnically cleansing their parents and stealing their land. It doesn’t have the right to defend itself, and only Nazis insist it does years into a Holocaust of children.