ATLANTA (JTA) — Bernie Sanders got applause at a Democratic presidential debate when he said it not good enough to be pro-Israel, and called for treating Palestinians with dignity.
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Sanders, a Vermont senator and among the front-runners in the race to garner the Democratic nomination, was one of several candidates asked Wednesday by MSNBC/Washington Post moderators whether they would take a tougher stance on Saudi Arabia, considering its human rights abuses.
All the candidates said they would be less conciliatory to Saudi Arabia, and Sanders, who is Jewish, volunteered that he would also be tougher on Israel.
“The same thing goes for Israel and the Palestinians,” Sanders said. “It is no longer good enough for us to be pro-Israel, I am pro-Israel, but we must treat the Palestinians with the dignity they deserve.”
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The audience in Atlanta applauded. Sanders called the situation in the Gaza Strip, where a majority of the working population is unemployed, “unsustainable.”
The debate, the fifth since June, brought together ten candidates in a state that Democrats hope to flip to their party next year. Moderated by four women journalists — a historic first in political debates — it was the most substantive foreign policy debate so far.
Candidates largely agreed on what they said were Trump’s failures in diminishing American influence in the Koreas and in the Middle East. Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., faulted Trump for pulling out of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.
Former Vice President Joe Biden noted that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has said Biden should be “beaten to death with a stick.” “Other than that you like him,” Sanders interjected. “Other than that I like him,’ Biden said, to laughter.
With friends like him who need enemies.
He basically called Israel a brutal dictatorship and blamed Israel for unemployment in hamas run Gaza.
Seems to be calling Israel a brutal dictatorship.
He said
“The same thing goes with Israel and the Palestinians. It is no longer good enough for us simply to be pro-Israel. I am pro-Israel. But we must treat the Palestinian people as well with the respect and dignity that they deserve.
[Applause]
What is going on in Gaza right now, where youth unemployment is 70 or 80 percent, is unsustainable. So we have to be rethinking who our allies are around the world, work with the United Nations, and not continue to support brutal dictatorships.”
I don’t quite buy your nonsense child card. Its a nice fake PC garbage. Lets focus on the adults.
The adults had free elections and can chose who they want as leaders. they choose Hamas. Its not the leaders its the people. it the schools that indoctrinate the kids. Now you bring up an interesting point, should we have pity and ISIS or Al qeda maybe Bin Ladens kids form his 40 wives? You can’t make policy for kids if all the adults are animals and terrorists.
Compassionate and moral people do not have piety on terrorists who kill us. Thats fake and unreal compassion.
May the Palestinians be smitten with yena machla and ALS
Israels PM was asked once what would he do if he lived in Ghaza. His answer. He would be a terrorist.
Kol Yisroel yes lohem chelek in olam habo. Just too bad. Get over it. Bernie is a YID and your idol is not. after 120 you will be friends with Bernie in Olam Habo (The world to come) and T will not even be there. “Trump 4 more years” your slogan. Maybe , maybe not. I say Bernie is forever. olam haze and olam habo.
Why, any bona fide true blue Archy lovin’ VIN Yid knows that the Torah requires that Israel treat the Palestinians with indignity.
And anyone like me, the one and only real Yoni, who claims that published studies on the psychology of military occupations has relevance to Israel and the Palestinians is nothing more than:
A lying snowflake liberal Muslim loving liberal self-hating Jew. Right Archy?
Golda said it the best
“We will only have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us”
or something like that
Mr. Sanders you low life liberal (lev arel) Tell me again why I should treat the Palestinians with dignity? Is it because they shoot thousands of rockets at civilian targets? Is it because they carried out Suicide bombings in the early two-thousands. Is it because they continue to stab, ram, and throw stones in order to maim and kill innocent jews. Perhaps its because Abbas continues to pay for slay. Should I continue? You’re a disgusting man Mr. Sanders.
we should take turns kicking him in the ass.
Israel does need to start treating the Pals with dignity. Sanders is right.