Little Village Interview with Bernie Sanders, (incl Palestine, guns). Excellent

[Catherina]

[leftcoastmountains]

1. Thanks! Every Bernie video out there I want to see!!!!

[Catherina]

3. Here's another one you might like. Sanders on Bill Moyers 2 years ago

It gives really good insight into why he's doing certain things the way he is right now. I watched it last night and really loved it

[Cheese Sandwich]

2. This is great

Great questions. Very informative. Really shows the value of public access TV too, doing a better job than the mainstream media.

[dae]

4. WTH, a politician answering questions w/o parsing

by a black interviewer! This has to be dubbed and photoshopped!

[sabrina 1]

5. Very good interview, thanks for posting. The interviewer was excellent and asked very

good questions.

[Divernan]

6. Same interview outrageously distorted over in the Israel/Palestine group

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1134&pid=113241

This OP was to a mondoweiss article "interpreting", in a very anti-Bernie attack, the same Little Village interview. http://mondoweiss.net/2015/09/sanders-economic-pussycat

As I replied on that forum (and it's the first time I've ever posted there - do they ban people for posting actual quotes from an OP link?):

Here's what Bernie actually said:

I think what the United States needs is to have an evenhanded policy toward Israel and toward the Palestinians. What we need to guarantee and make certain is that Irael can exist in peace and security and that the Palestinians have their own independent state and an economy to allow their people to have a decent standard of living.

What you need for that region, and god knows this conflict has been a horrendous conflict, it has gone on decade after decade after decade. I don’t know that anyone has any magical answer, but I think the role that the United States can play is to bring people together and develop a fair and evenhanded proposal toward both sides.

Well look, I’m not going to sit here and tell you that I have a magical solution that has eluded every president. This is tough stuff. And you have forces on both sides in terms of the Israel-Palestinian conflict who have been counterproductive, no question about it. I think that the best that we can do over a period of time is to try to bring the sides together.

Our goal should be to see more economic assistance to the people in that region rather than just military assistance. Right now the United States provides substantial amounts of military aid to both Israel and Egypt. I would hope that in years to come the amount of military aid could be reduced and in fact could be substituted with economic aide. There is a lot of economic misery within the Palestinian community. The recent war in Gaza made a terrible situation even worse. They need help and I would hope that we could move in that direction.
- See more at: http://mondoweiss.net/2015/09/sanders-economic-pussycat#sthash.6USPQJCJ.dpuf

[Catherina]

8. Hawks can't stand him. He won't sign AIPAC letters or let hawks in his office

They're trying to discourage Sanders supporters.

From a Forward article: http://forward.com/news/national/310087/is-bernie-sanders-a-lefty-except-for-israel/

Tens of thousands have viewed a video of the August 2014 confrontation on YouTube. Sanders has been excoriated on some left-wing blogs for the outburst, which many see as a sign of his enduring support for Israel.

But Sanders’ annoyed shut-down of the critic of Israel, and pieces of his lecture on the dangers of Hamas that followed, may mask a deeper trend in the self-described socialist’s thinking: An examination of Sanders’s record suggests that the 2014 Gaza conflict may have been a turning point, after which he has been more critical of the Israeli government.

In 2002, during the debate over the resolution that authorized President George W. Bush to use military force in Iraq, Sanders, then a House member, asked whether an invasion of Iraq would worsen the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Pro-Israel lobbyists have been among those to find Sanders elusive. “He’s someone who’s sort of avoided everyone,” said Ben Chouake, who leads the hawkish pro-Israel group NORPAC. “He’s one of the few offices that, when we try to get an appointment to come talk to him, we just can’t get in…

In mid-July 2014, Sanders was one of just 21 Senators not to co-sponsor a resolution expressing support for Israel in the conflict with Hamas.

Here are 2 more Bernie statements on Israel/Palestine: https://pplswar.wordpress.com/2015/07/06/how-bernie-sanders-reacted-to-israels-attacks-on-gaza-and-his-position-on-israelpalestine/

[Enthusiast]

7. Wow! That is good!

[senz]

9. Very good interview. Informative. Thanks!