Under Sanders’ proposal, the U.S. would withhold further aid “unless there is a fundamental change in their military and political positions.”
  • Perfide@reddthat.com
    1785·
    10 months ago

    They gonna call Bernard “I got into politics because my extended family literally died in the holocaust” Sanders antisemitic now?

    • fosforus@sopuli.xyz
      533·
      10 months ago

      “While Israel has the right to go after Hamas, Netanyahu’s right-wing extremist government does not have the right to wage almost total warfare against the Palestinian people,” the Vermont senator said in a statement.

      Seems like his views on this are pretty much aligned with that of typical israelis.

      • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
        116·
        10 months ago

        And yet that’s the same view that has had people screaming about anti-semitism for the past month.

        • 4lan@lemmy.world
          177·
          10 months ago

          idk about a majority…There was a massive protest outside Netanyahu’s house.

          Israeli’s are bombing their own civilians that are being held hostage right now. They are killing their own as if they are disposable.

          • VentraSqwal@links.dartboard.socialEnglish
            27·
            10 months ago

            Well I’m sure the families of the hostages aren’t super happy about the way the war is being waged, but I wonder about the others. He did get voted in, and a lot more legitimately than Hamas in Gaza which was years before half their population was old enough to vote.

            • Honytawk@lemmy.zip
              4·
              10 months ago

              Well Trump, Putin and Hitler also were voted in.

              But I doubt the majority would vote for them again given the chance.

        • fosforus@sopuli.xyz
          43·
          10 months ago

          I have to admit that I do not know. Probably not? How they think about it currently might be a bit different from how they thought about it 2 months ago.

          My understanding is that they’re pretty displeased with both Hamas and Netanjahu’s government and are mostly blaming both for the current catastrophe.

    • Adub@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3313·
      10 months ago

      Senator Sanders is in lockstep with Biden & rest of Democratic caucus’s view here. There is a big push not to lose the path for a two-state solution and to pause West Bank settlement expansion. Wouldn’t be surprised if President Biden’s friend Bernard consulted with him about this beforehand.

        • VentraSqwal@links.dartboard.socialEnglish
          81·
          10 months ago

          So was South Africa and the Native Americans and the racial relations in the US and countless other situations but we still try to inrpove them.

          • Zoboomafoo@lemmy.world
            83·
            10 months ago

            I’m not saying to ignore the problem, I’m saying that the solution won’t fit in a tweet or a lemmy text box

            • VentraSqwal@links.dartboard.socialEnglish
              2·
              10 months ago

              Ya, probably more grad paper thesis territory lol. For South Africa, I know the reconciliation meetings had not only South Africans but people from all around the world, so we’d probably need the same thing here. International law and relations experts, experts on deconolization, history, political theory, constitutions from around the world, etc.

              Although i know that also kind of caused the problem in the first place, a bunch of foreigners drawing lines on a map to dictate what happens to the natives. Hopefully this time they’d have a bigger say.

        • Rakonat@lemmy.worldEnglish
          73·
          10 months ago

          If there is one thing I don’t like about Lemmy (and social media in general) its that a majority of people can’t grasp complex sitstuons or solutions and cling to the thing they dislike without consideration for everything else.