Comrade Bernie Sanders wants strings attached for US aid to Israel

Still commie after all these years

Sen. Bernie Sanders (Communist-VT) wants the US to withhold aid to Israel if they don't do what he says: don't bomb so much, limit construction in Judea and Samaria, and get out of Gaza after the war so that the jihadis can regroup, rearm and re-terrorize the Jewish State.

Comrade Sanders doesn't appreciate the counter-terrorism operations in the Gaza Strip the IDF performed last week. He seems upset that Israel isn't lying down and taking what's coming to them. And just because Bernie was born a Jew, don't think for a second that he has any love for Israel--he doesn't, and he wants conditions placed on them.

Sanders released a statement on his website last Thursday where he lamented the deaths on the Israeli side of the fight, and on the Jew-hating side of the fight.

“Since October 7th, there has not been a day that goes by that I am not deeply saddened and distressed by the ongoing conflict in the Middle East,” he wrote.

“To see innocent young people slaughtered at a music festival, children and elderly people kidnapped, and then, thousands of civilians killed, including entire families being wiped out and thousands of children dead, torments me and millions of others who are watching this conflict unfold.”

But that didn't imply that he believes Israel should fight back with equal or more ferocity, just because the. terrorists sadistically raped, butchered and captured Jews of all ages, burning some to death, beheading others, or simply mutilating them while they lived to see the atrocity being waged against them for being Jewish.

Sanders, a parasite of the U.S. taxpayer, then wrote that the U.S. must take action to force Israel to curtail its air campaign in Gaza and to press Jerusalem to allow expanded aid into the Hamas-ruled coastal enclave. 

Funny, but Americans didn't feel the same about the Japanese in the Second World War after they attacked Pearl Harbor, or the Germans when we bombed the city of Dresden. 

“The issue now is to act decisively to end the indiscriminate bombing by Israel…and secure a significant humanitarian pause so that the massive humanitarian aid that is needed – food, water, medicine, and fuel – can get into Gaza and save lives.”

Sorry comrade, you can go to hell. You don't have a clue about the situation, the strategic understanding and the goals of Hamas, Hezbollah, and for that matter, the implications of a future caliphate and how it impacts on all Western nations. 

Sanders added that “this horrific situation” can only be changed by “attaching conditions” to a bill coming before Congress to grant supplemental aid to Israel which include:

• An end to (Israel’s) indiscriminate bombing and a significant pause so that massive humanitarian assistance can come into the region;
• The right of displaced Gazans to return to their homes;
• No long-term Israeli occupation of Gaza;
• An end to settler violence in the West Bank and a freeze on settlement expansion; and
• A commitment to broad peace talks for a two-state solution in the wake of the war.

Now let's look at Sanders' demands and analyze them.

First, Israel's "indiscriminate bombing" is not indiscriminate at all. Israel takes great pains to avoid civilian casualties, and if Sanders didn't hate the Jewish State so much, he would place the blame for civilian casualties squarely on the shoulders of Hamas, who refuse to allow civilians to leave areas in which Israel has forewarned them they will be bombing. What other nation at war does that. Sure, the U.S. did it in Japan in the "war to end all wars" but we knew civilians were still there and we dropped an atom bomb anyway. 

I don't suspect that Israel would stop displaced Gazans from returning to their homes--this was never an issue and Sanders seems to be making it a straw man issue.

If Israel fails to either occupy Gaza or in some way control it, terrorist attacks will continue and innocent people will die. Sanders is typical of career politicians who make policies that never affect them directly. If all lawmakers lived near an international border, you could bet the immigration laws would be enforced.

Ending settler violence in the West Bank will have to be put. on hold until we can get our magic wand fixed. Insofar as settlement expansion is involved, consider the spoils of war--words that could have just as easily come from the mouth of Muslims, as they have for centuries.

Peace talks for a two-state solution is an incredibly good example of the blatant ignorance Sanders has about Israel and the Palestinians. Every time a two-state solution was offered, Israel accepted it to avoid conflict, but the Palestinians refused it. I believe it was offered four or five times--don't quote me--but each time they refused the offer because their goal isn't to settle with Israel; their goal is "from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" and thus destroy Israel and the Jews.

Sanders is a fool who then went on to attack the Netanyahu government.

“Netanyahu’s right-wing extremist government does not have the right to wage almost total warfare against the Palestinian people. That is morally unacceptable and in violation of international law.”

Wrong. The Israeli government has a moral obligation to its people to wage a total war to obliterate Hamas and any other terrorist group that threatens the existence of Israel. Did I mention that Sanders is a fool?

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