The appalling tale is here.
Addressing a meeting of the left-wing J Street, a Jewish organization devoted to pressuring Israel to meet Palestinian demands, Bernie Sanders outdid himself:
“My solution is to say to Israel: you get $3.8 billion dollars every year, if you want military aid you’re going to have to fundamentally change your relationship to the people of Gaza,” Sanders said. “In fact, I think it is fair to say that some of that should go right now into humanitarian aid in Gaza.
Sanders denounced the situation in Gaza as “absolutely inhumane,” “unacceptable,” and “unsustainable.”
“The Palestinian people have a right to live in peace and security as well. It is not anti-Semitism to say that Netanyahu’s government has been racist,” Sanders continued.
If the situation in Gaza is “absolutely inhumane,” “unacceptable,” and “unsustainable,” as Bernie seems to think – it’s not nearly that dire — that is due entirely to the corrupt lords of misrule in Hamas, whose top leaders have stolen up to $7.5 billion of that aid (see the discussion below) and spend what is left not on things which benefit the people of Gaza, such as residential housing, power plants, and water treatment plants, but on amassing an expensive armory of rockets to use against Israel.
It is up to the Palestinians in Gaza to chose whether to live in “peace and security.” It is they who have been making war, while Israel is only responding to their attacks. Israel has been the target of thousands of Hamas rockets, not the other way round. Israel never initiates attacks; it responds to them. Israel wants nothing more than to live, with its neighbors in Gaza, in “peace and security,” but it has discovered that the only way to end the attacks from Gaza is to respond with decisive force. This buys a certain period of “peace and security,” then the Gazans renew their rocket attacks; Israel again responds; the Gazan rockets again stop being sent into Israel, and “peace and security” is again reestablished, until the next time Hamas decides to break both the peace and the security.
How has Netanyahu’s government “been racist”? Presumably by defending itself against Hamas, the terrorist group that runs Gaza, when it sends rockets by the hundreds into Israeli civilian centers, or lets loose incendiary kites to set Israeli farms on fire, or attempt to breach Israel’s security fence, with Molotov cocktails, grenades, and sometimes live fire, in order to kill Israeli soldiers and civilians? In attempting to defend itself from those who attack it and call for its destruction, is Israel being “racist’? The only “racism” is that directed by the Muslims at the Jews, all Jews, and not just those in Israel. Hamas has repeatedly called on Palestinians to kill all Jews. This past summer, Hamas official Fathi Hamad told Palestinians that “there are Jews everywhere! We must attack every Jew on planet Earth — we must slaughter and kill them, with Allah’s help. Enough warming up!” Is Sanders familiar with Hamas’s murderous rhetoric? Does he know of any Israeli who talks about Palestinians in such a way? Does he know that Fath Hamad’s virulent Jew-hatred can also be found on Palestinian children’s shows, and in Palestinian textbooks?
And when Sanders attacks the “racist” Israelis, he overlooks how Arabs fare in Israel. Does he realize that Israeli Arabs serve in the Knesset, on the Supreme Court, as senior diplomats, even – as volunteers – in the IDF, where they rise high in the officer corps? Does he know that Arabs study at Israeli universities, that in Israeli hospitals Jewish and Arab doctors and other medical personnel work side by side treating both Jewish and Arab patients? Does he know that Arabs and Jews work together in factories, on farms, in service industries? And all this in “racist” Israel.
Sanders appears not to realize that Israel does not occupy Gaza; that not a single Israeli has remained there since the final pullout in 2005. Nor does he mention – does he know and not think it matters? — that Gaza is run by Hamas, a terrorist organization which has sent thousands of rockets indiscriminately into Israel. Even the left-wing Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have both defined these Hamas attacks as “war crimes.” Hamas is murderous not just towards Israelis, but toward its Arab opponents as well; it has crushed Fatah in Gaza, killing hundreds of its members.
Israel’s blockade of Gaza is only a response to Hamas attacks. It is mainly directed at preventing construction material, such as concrete and iron, from being imported into Gaza, that can be used to reinforce Hamas military emplacements. Is Sanders aware that Israel allows fuel into Gaza precisely, as one Israeli spokesman said, to “prevent the civilian-humanitarian deterioration of the Strip”? Is he aware that Israel also allows humanitarian agencies to provide Gaza with millions of liters of diesel fuel and gasoline, fruits and vegetables, wheat, sugar, meat, chicken and fish products, dairy products, animal feed, hygiene products, clothing and shoes? Somehow one doubts that Bernie Sanders has been paying attention. And of course Gazans who cannot find suitable medical care in the Strip are allowed to use Israeli hospitals. Among them have been the relatives of several Hamas leaders, including Ismael Haniyeh and Khaled Meshaal, who have sought and been given treatment in Israel – that, too, would surely come as a surprise to Bernie Sanders.
The true enemy of the people of Gaza are not the Israelis. When they left Gaza, they handed over the greenhouses, then worth $14 million, that Israelis had built, as part of a thriving multi-million- dollar business in flowers that, it was hoped by Israel, could eventually bring the Gazans as much as $200 million in income. Israel had assumed the Gazan Arabs would continue to operate and expand the business, but instead, the Arabs destroyed the greenhouses completely, grabbing irrigation hoses, water pumps, and plastic sheeting in a blow to this fledgling efforts to reconstruct the Gaza Strip.
Israeli employers have also given work to tens of thousands of Gazans, both in Gaza and in Israel itself. In response to Hamas rocket attacks, some of those who used to travel to Israel for work can no longer do so. Should Israel then be blamed for taking such security measures?
Hamas has organized the “Great March of Return,” which every Friday since March 2018 sends Palestinians marching toward Israel’s security fence, to attempt to breach it in order to kill Israeli soldiers and civilians. It is the Palestinians who are attempting to attack Israelis in their own land; Israel has merely been defending its security fence. The Palestinians throw Molotov cocktails, grenades, incendiary kites, and sometimes use live fire. Meanwhile, the Israeli soldiers first use tear gas and rubber bullets, to head off the rioters, and if that doesn’t deter sufficiently, they use live fire, ordinarily aiming at the legs and then, and only as a last resort, when some rioters have actually breached the fence, they will aim above the waist. If there were no marchers with Molotov cocktails, grenades, incendiary bombs, and other explosives, relentlessly attempting to breach the security fence, there would be only peace from the Israeli side.
Trick_or_Treat says
Sanders desperately requires to be involuntarily commited for psychiatric assessment.
mortimer says
Leftardation … find the cure.
murad says
No, Sanders is not insane or mentally sick. He’s just hateful of his own people because he is evil. This is now a common phenomena in so-called totalitarian democracies to appeal, nay grovel to muslims to be elected. . . and they succeed. They don’t care if their country goes to the dogs / jihadis, as the process is afoot. And fast. It’s seems the devil has taken possession of the west and this progress cannot be stopped because those with authority have been blinded. Lost sense of right and wrong. Anything goes. imam = pastor. Nay, imam is better.
FYI says
Comrade Sanders…
The wealthy lefty socialists and virtue signalling bleeding heart Democrats
{The internationale playing:the Leftard song}
FYI says
Sanders is apparently close to “pope” francis too,the Man In White.
A certain Bishop Sorondo once invited Sanders to speak at the Vatican because Sander’s views are “very analogous to that of the pope”.
“very analogous”;the same Lefty,antifreedom,pro-Globalist ideology in other words.
And using climate change as a handy smokescreen.
The marxist jesuit judas “pope” Mr Bergoglio{he doesn’t even bother to try to hide it anymore},friendly with the Lefty political world..it is no surprise that the vatican is now a key player in world politics promoting Globalism,mass islamic immigration and undermining Christianity too.
{f you listen carefully at what Mr Bergoglio is saying..you might even notice that despite desperately trying to look like a lamb the old wolf seems to speak like a Dragon, a reference some folk might get but most won’t….}
Please take note of the connections between the vatican,the Man in White and the lefty power elites:Mr Bergoglio has a captive audience,so easy to fool!
Charles Lutz says
@ fyi: Not too long ago there was the “Man in white” cassock making fun of young priests wearing their usual black cassocks ( in Italy).
John W. says
This sounds like a quid pro quo ha ha. Imagine that.
“My solution is to say to Israel: you get $3.8 billion dollars every year, if you want military aid you’re going to have to fundamentally change your relationship to the people of Gaza,” Sanders said. “In fact, I think it is fair to say that some of that should go right now into humanitarian aid in Gaza”
mortimer says
Abbas Asks Arab States For More Funding Toward Villas
“Without multiple impressive homes, what is the point of a leadership position?”
http://www.preoccupiedterritory.com/abbas-asks-arab-states-for-more-funding-toward-villas/
Ramallah, August 26 – As unemployment soars and Gaza reconstruction has yet to get in gear, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas made another impassioned plea to Arab nations today to make good on their promises of cash so he and his loyalists may continue to build grand mansions.
The cash-strapped Palestinian Authority faces trouble in meeting all of its commitments, which include pensions for terrorists and their families, kickbacks, and a lavish lifestyle for high-ranking Fatah officials. The Authority cannot hope to address the squalor and dependence of everyday Palestinians until those important projects are properly funded, and the shortfall is in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
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$13 m presidential palace at Ramallah includes 2 helipads.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is leading the construction of a luxurious presidential palace near Ramallah at a cost of $13 million, despite the PA being mired in a debilitating financial crisis.
“The goal of this project is to establish the Presidential Guest Palace in Surda, Ramallah within an area of 4,700m2, along with a building for the Presidential Administration and Guards with an area of 4,000m2, the construction process includes also preparing the surrounding area and two helipads, the project will be constructed over a land area of 27,000m2,” says a statement on the website of PECDAR, the Palestinian Economic Council for Development and Reconstruction.
A computer-generated simulation image of the 27-dunam (6.67-acre) presidential compound looks luxurious indeed.
gravenimage says
Good grief…
underbed cat says
Palestianian heliopad? Hmmmm Hopefully Israel has plans for that ….like gone, now that they have a wall they think they are a state of Palestine ….but they are terrorist that occupy Israel.
joseph wysocki (@rumrot) says
The new Muslim white hope, just look at his new supporters he is bleeding most American Democrat voters.
Heidi says
Copied from WaPO. One has to pay to read the article and I am not willing to do so but it looks like they already are thinking of ways to increase taxes for whatever it is worth. “Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Friday proposed a $20.5 trillion package of tax increases to pay for the Medicare-for-all plan she backs, a move that attempts to answer critics who question how she would pay for the proposal but could open her to fresh lines of attack.” Source: Washington Post, 1 Nov 2019 Once taxes are flowing will they really be used to better the lives of the indigenous population?
TomSJr says
Sanders want a very slow death, but no need to worry! NO DEMOCRAT WILL WIN THE PRESIDENCY and CONSERVATIVES WILL WIN BACK THE HOUSE AND KEEP THE SENATE.
I cannot wait until this happens so I can go out and celebrate.
TRUMP/PENCE 2020
PENCE/TRUMP 2024
gravenimage says
Agree with you post–but a two-term president cannot run for vice president, because they would not be able to fulfill their duties if the president became incapacitated.
Northern Virginiastan says
Racist? Is Bernie referring to the deportation of African migrants from Israel? Or Netanyahu’s statement that Israel is for Jews only?
gravenimage says
Netanyahu never said any such thing. He said that Israel is a “Nation-State Of The Jewish People”, which is a very different matter. All people have equal rights in Israel–this is not true in any Muslim country.
Israel has a right to defend itself says
I agree with everything in the above article.
When I speak to anyone who thinks ill of Israel, or if someone says that Israeli “retaliation” (instead of a right to defend one’s own citizens) is disproportionate to molotovs or rockets, I say the following.
Let’s say for a minute that that the the Israelis are the most evil people in the world., even though they are not.
If you were in Iraq 20 years ago and decided to throw rocks at Saddam Hussein’s palace, how would that work out for you? So why do that against a well armed Israeli military?
If Israelis are the racist and evil group, would it be Israel or instead Iraq or any other sharia state have the more disproportionate retaliation?
underbed cat says
Propaganda of rocks works better for the leftist mind, they try to keep the rockets missiles out of awareness so they can gain support for the “perpetual victims” and the perpetual hate they prefer since they are Hamas. Of course Israel thehas the right to stop the assault. The assault by Hamas and the terrorizing of Israel..is what the left supports….in a world of information the dem/ lefts have to be quite delusional or their fund raising is too good to give up.
Angemon says
Never trust someone who combs their hair with a balloon…
Israel has a right to defend itself says
LOL
tgusa says
Bernie Sanders was once so lazy and distracting that he got kicked out of a hippie commune. In an effort to maintain his lazy distracting lifestyle he took his act to congress instead. That way he could spend your hard earned tax dollars while doing nothing himself.
In this primarily old white democrat run for the presidency the D stands for dementia.
lisa says
Bernie Sanders should live in Israel for 6 months. Then come back and tell America about his experience. If he does not do this, then he has no idea what is going on over there.
gravenimage says
Bernie Sanders Wants to Cut Aid for Israel and Give It to Hamas (Part 1)
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Yeah–let’s take aid for one of our staunchest allies and the only democracy in the region, and give it to the thugs who want to destroy them. *Ugh*.
David says
Bernie Sanders should be forced to read this article, and so should Demorat voters.
J D S p says
Bernie Sanders says; “The Palestinian. People have a right….blah….blah…blah…etc.
Of course the Palestinians have a right….but …the real Palestinian people are the Jews…God gave this land to the Jews and those who inhabit Palestine now are nomads and terrorist who call themselves. Palestinians but
underbed cat says
Bernie Sanders is the opiod for the left, the cool dude speaks and makes their mind warm and cozy…..but has really bad side effects like addiction to block reality if the money wears out in his socialist state. Then it evolves into a little like living under a communist type country so that waiting in long lines for food, living in concrete block apartments and free health care in another long line. I am curious if Sanders has ever visited Gaza…I think he may get a reality check to see the conditions controlled by rich Ham-as while they are preparing bad idea’s for the people they control and the paintings on the wall , the aftermath.