Ignore The Smears: Bernie Sanders Is Right About Israel’s Heinous Atrocities In Gaza — He Just Got..

[Purveyor]

Ignore the smears: Bernie Sanders is right about Israel’s heinous atrocities in Gaza — he just got the numbers wrong

Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has faced a torrent of criticism in recent days after criticizing Israel’s atrocities in its 2014 war in Gaza.

In an interview published this week with the editorial board of The New York Daily News, Sanders fielded numerous questions about Israel-Palestine and U.S. policy in the Middle East.

The harsh questioning and the media’s subsequent antagonistic response to Sanders’ measured and levelheaded remarks is just the latest example of how thorough and extreme the bias is against Bernie and his insurgent grassroots campaign — and against anyone who dares to acknowledge Israel’s oppression of the Palestinians.

Sanders, who has broken with Democratic Party dogma and promised to pursue a “level playing field” on Israel-Palestine, lived up to his promise in the interview.

Unlike his competitor Hillary Clinton, who has effusively lionized Israel and pledged to meet with hard-line right-wing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in her first month in office, Sanders acknowledged the suffering Palestinians endure under illegal Israeli occupation, and dared to mention what almost no American politicians ever do — namely, that Israel has engaged in crimes of its own.

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http://www.salon.com/2016/04/09/ignore_the_smears_bernie_sanders_is_right_about_israels_heinous_atrocities_in_gaza_he_just_got_the_numbers_wrong/

[yourpaljoey]

1. YES!!! Viva Bernie!

[geek tragedy]

2. I'm sure that argument will play well in Rockland County

and Borough Park.

[elleng]

3. from the Jerusalem Post: 'US Senator Bernie Sanders, a presidential frontrunner,

has recently been criticized by some in the Jewish community for comments he made about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Yet, the fact remains we have never had the opportunity to support a candidate who has lived by Jewish values, who has always stood on the right side of history and who, having lived on a kibbutz, is the only candidate with a true and, in his own words, “deep personal connection to Israel.” While you may not agree with all of his policies, Bernie’s consistency, courageous leadership and unwavering commitment to truth, peace and social justice make him the better choice for the United States and the Jewish people.

In every presidential election, we vote for a candidate that we hope shares our common interests. The sad reality is that politicians will make proclamations and promises designed to secure your vote.

Sometimes they mean what they say, often they don’t.

Over the past 30 years, ..... '

Link: http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Bernie-Sanders-deserves-our-support-450911?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=socialnetwork

[Gwhittey]

4. Actually he did not get numbers wrong.

When he was talking about it to the DN he mentioned he was not sure of numbers, and then DN editors said they did not either. So someone assumed it was the number stated. And then the DN wrote article about how Sanders was clueless and did not know the numbers. Such fucking childish journalism. And many Hillary drones are to blindly ignorant that they keep spouting this iterview as some news article right out of "All the Presidents Men"

[elleng]

5. Worse than 'childish' journalism;

not 'journalism' at all, but propaganda.