Posted on 04/15/2016 3:52:01 PM PDT by MtnClimber
It's been over a week since Bernie Sanders -- in an interview with the New York Daily News -- made arguably the most defamatory factual error of campaign 2016 by drastically inflating Gazan casualties in the 2014 Hamas-Israel war with a figure of "over 10,000 innocent people" allegedly killed by Israel. That number dwarfed those reported by the UN and even (amazingly) Hamas itself. Here's the transcript:
Sanders: Look, why don't I support a million things in the world? I'm just telling you that I happen to believe...anybody help me out here, because I don't remember the figures, but my recollection is over 10,000 innocent people were killed in Gaza. Does that sound right? Daily News: I think it's probably high, but we can look at that.
Sanders: I don't have it in my number...but I think it's over 10,000. My understanding is that a whole lot of apartment houses were leveled. Hospitals, I think, were bombed. So yeah, I do believe and I don't think I'm alone in believing that Israel's force was more indiscriminate than it should have been.
Indiscriminate? Actually it was Hamas and Islamic Jihad that were indiscriminate by purposefully targeting Israeli civilians with their missiles, launched frequently from schools and hospitals in order to encourage reciprocal civilian deaths of their own people for propaganda purposes. And then there are the tunnels under Israel that Hamas and co. are still building to attack Israelis in their homes. All this after Israel withdrew voluntarily from Gaza.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
Sanders hates Israel almost as much as he hates the USA and free market economics.
Which immediately turned Gaza into a jihadi rocket launching pad against Israel. But of course Sanders ignores that.
Bernie is just trying to be a more likeable Hitler.
Sanders appears much, much more honest than Hillary the Liar and Money-grubber
BUT their politics are very similarly socialist
anti-American, anti-Christian, anti-Jewish, anti-Biblical, anti-Israel, you name it...
and yes, the Jewish people are STILL afflicted after all these centuries with AT LEAST their “share” of Quislings (going back to Biblical days...there have always been such “fifth columns” in the Jewish community...Bernie is nothing new and certainly nothing original....more faithful or “real” Jews have noted that some of their very worst enemies are such defectors from within, their external enemies like Hitler and Haman and such could never do nearly as much evil or damage without the support, aid, succor of Quislings or “fallen” people of Jewish heritage)
it is very long-standing sickness. Why the “fallen” Jews don’t just stick to their atheism ....without attacking or seeing fit to undermine believing Jews....is a mystery... but they often do it and it should come as no surprise)
Bernie is no more genuinely Jewish than Pelosi is Catholic
Bernie is far less “genuine” and “honest” than most people realize: http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2016/04/how-bernie-sanders-sold-his-soul-to-left.html
He’s a phony opportunist, just like most pols.
communists in general hate Israel.
Makes one really wonder why Jewish voters in the US still keep voting for Democrats.
Bernie sided with Palestinians at the debate last night to the extent of how they [are forced to] live, but said he was with Israel 100% to the end, whatever he meant by that.
Maybe he intended to say he was 100% for the end of Israel.
Wow. Some of the comments at the link are jaw droppingly ignorant and evil in their hate for Israel. Just like Sanders.
I had not read the comments, but went back to look. I think I need a shower. That was pure filth.
He's a socialist. Hating Israel is part of his religion.
Well , that’s not much of a surprise really. As you note, most politicians are corrupt these days. And looking more honest then Hillary isnt difficult, al Capone and john Dillinger and pretty boy Floyd would all look much more honest than Hillary the Cash Register —,$$$$
Nobody said that Bernie was sane. Just that he was loud.
It is Hillary who is the real threat to America. She’s also power mad, a closet Marxist, greedy as Croesus, and so blatantly a liar that no one cares anymore.
The Democrat Party has now become the Democrat Marxist Party. Finally out of the closet, eh, Little Debbie Wasserman Schulz. Good going.
Israel doesn’t seem to figure in his priorities, and it doesn’t seem like he’s kept up with the cycles of violence or forfeiture of Gaza which made things worse rather than better. He’s too busy bashing the banks. He’s obsessed with it.
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