See? This is why personality-based politics is a dead end. Here’s Bernie Sanders, confronted over his vote to support Israel:
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) got into a heated confrontation with constituents during a town hall in his home state this past weekend. After a woman in the crowd asked Sanders about a Senate resolution that condemned Hamas but “said nothing” about Israel’s “massacre” of Palestinians in Gaza, the senator became defensive, fighting off angry residents with shouts of “Excuse me! Shut up!”
Sanders began by saying he thinks he believes Israel “overreacted” in its offensive against Hamas and was “terribly, terribly wrong” in its bombing of UN facilities. “On the other hand,” Sanders said, “you have situation where Hamas is sending missiles into Israel,” adding that those rockets are often originating from populated areas.
As members of his audience began to shout out their opposition to his statements, Sanders responded, “Excuse me! Shut up! You don’t have the microphone.”
“This is called democracy!” Sanders said shortly after, insisting that he was just trying to answer questions from his constituents. Things calmed down for just a few seconds before another woman in the crowd called out “Bullshit!” on Sanders’ assertion that Hamas does not want Israel to exist.
“Personality-based politics”…..oh my. The following two statements were made over the weekend. 1) The group “will pay a heavy price.” 2) “If you come after us we’re going to come after you wherever you are.” The first was made by Netanyahu and the second by Obama’s chief neo-con mouthpiece Ben Rhodes. Sanders is wrong on the Israel issue. So is every other Senator, Representative, President, all of their advisors and everyone else who has a hand in making our foreign policy (Hillary). The majority of the American public is dead wrong on the Israel issue. Until that changes, groups like ISIS will form one after the other decade after decade. We all know what the definition of insanity is. Our foreign policy is insane.
I can cut Bernie some slack for his hunka Israeli luv. Since he’s been right on every economic issue, there’s hope that he can be educated.
Poor old socialist Bernie is probably under the impression that the Hamas tunnels mostly end up under kibbutzim (formerly socialist communities, now bankrupt) in the south of the Jewish state.
Which is precisely where they do end up.