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Sanders in 1990: US must pressure Israel on Palestinians
Times of Israel ^ | 2/6/16 | staff and JTA

Posted on 02/06/2016 10:23:43 PM PST by Nachum

Democratic presidential hopeful Senator Bernie Sanders has had a long and apparently often critical relationship with Israel.

One mystery that surrounded the 74-year-old senator’s past links to the Jewish state was the identity of the kibbutz on which he spent several months in 1963 as a volunteer. On Thursday, veteran Israeli journalist Yossi Melman announced that the Democratic hopeful had named it in an interview with him more than 25 years ago.

In 1990, on the eve of his election to the US House of Representatives as a socialist, Sanders named the kibbutz where he volunteered as Sha’ar HaAmakim, a fact Melman published in his Haaretz interview.

But the very fact that journalists had to go to the archives in an effort to sleuth out the location of the 22-year-old Sanders’s volunteering highlights the senator’s reticence in raising his views on and ties to Israel in the current campaign.

Sanders has long been critical of Israeli settlement building and its conduct of recent fighting against Hamas in Gaza, but has also been vocal about Israel’s right to defend itself against attack.

The republication of the 1990 interview last week suggests that Sanders’s criticism is not new.

“I’d like to see the United States pressing Israel more on the Palestinian issue,” he said in 1990, according to an English translation of the Hebrew translation of Sanders’s original English-language interview with Melman.

He also had some choice words about Israel’s willingness to sell weapons in the Western Hemisphere at the time.

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TOPICS: Israel; News/Current Events; US: Arkansas; US: New York; US: Texas; US: Vermont
KEYWORDS: 2016election; arkansas; berniesanders; election2016; hillary; hillaryclinton; hitlery; israel; newyork; palistinians; sanders; tedcruz; texas; trump; vermont; wipewater
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1 posted on 02/06/2016 10:23:43 PM PST by Nachum
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To: Nachum

If Bernie had his druthers on this issue, he’d give up almost the entirety of Israel to the jihadis, and the settlers would be rounded up into cattle cars.


2 posted on 02/06/2016 10:29:39 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
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To: Nachum

Funny thing is his biggest support comes from self hating American punks under 30, i’m sure.

Self hate is the in thing now.

Problem is, it’s not in China or Russia or Iran.

America, Israel and Western Europe seem to have the market cornered, why, I dont now.


3 posted on 02/06/2016 10:30:17 PM PST by dp0622
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To: dp0622

know


4 posted on 02/06/2016 10:30:52 PM PST by dp0622
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To: Nachum

5 posted on 02/06/2016 10:33:21 PM PST by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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To: Nachum
So what else is new?

Radical, Left-wing self-Jew hating his fellow Jew? Nothing new to see here folks, move along, move along...

6 posted on 02/06/2016 10:39:54 PM PST by Netz
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To: Nachum

Sanders is a despicable piece of decaying Commie excrement.


7 posted on 02/06/2016 10:47:33 PM PST by EinNYC
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To: Mr. Mojo

“If Bernie had his druthers on this issue, he’d give up almost the entirety of Israel to the jihadis, and the settlers would be rounded up into cattle cars.”

So he’s a capo, just like George Soros!


8 posted on 02/06/2016 11:05:10 PM PST by vette6387
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To: dp0622

I believe we have a spiritual warfare going on. I was wondering why the left has not gone after Bernie for
being a Jew. Could it be because he is not pro Israel?


9 posted on 02/06/2016 11:07:19 PM PST by make no mistake
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To: make no mistake

To #9. The answer is YES. The Marxist Left (including communists, most socialists, progressives, etc) have to be anti-Israel because Israel, under Begin, shifted from a socialist economy and govt to a free market, pro-growth, one and the Israeli Left has never recovered from it.

The only reason the Soviet Union voted to recognize the new state of Israel was that it would going to be run by a bunch of old European socialists who leaned left. Moscow thought that it would gain a foothold in the Middle East.

When they didn’t, they went with Nasser, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem (Hussaini), and eventually the Assad family of Syria.


10 posted on 02/07/2016 12:05:34 AM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: make no mistake

He might be ethnically a Jew, but I think he’s an atheist.


11 posted on 02/07/2016 1:00:46 AM PST by gattaca (Republicans believe every day is July 4, democrats believe every day is April 15. Ronald Reagan)
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To: gattaca

Well, Bernie is not an ethically involved Jew. That is certain.


12 posted on 02/07/2016 1:10:14 AM PST by RedHeeler
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To: make no mistake

“I believe we have a spiritual warfare going on.”

This is exactly where these reprobate politicians are coming from, doing those things that in the natural mind to someone outside of their sphere of influence, which includes the MSM puffing them up, as often as possible enacting mystifying and self defeating actions toward their own constituency’s freedoms and appearing as sheer lunacy to those on the outside of its authority,

“And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; “ Romans 1:28

“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” Ephesians 6:12

And it is spiritual warfare, I believe obama is outright demonic and that whichever candidate assumes the office of President next January will have to be the one who is willing to receive that same evil spirit. I don’t think it will give up that seat authority and power, and Hillary is first in line if I had to guess on which one,


13 posted on 02/07/2016 3:04:00 AM PST by captmar-vell
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To: dp0622

[Funny thing is his biggest support comes from self hating American punks under 30]

They are supporting what they learned from the public school system. I took a junior college Political Science class a few years ago. The teacher asked the students if they would like to live in a socialist country. Everyone under the age of 40 raised their hands in agreement.

This is the next generation that will run America.


14 posted on 02/07/2016 4:58:51 AM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. - Psalm 33:12)
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To: Nachum

No surprise from a guy who honeymooned in the USSR.


15 posted on 02/07/2016 5:06:31 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: EinNYC

100%! The youngsters who support him just want FREEBIES and no jobs... Then they will have to rob us in our homes and businesses to get the expensive stuff that their welfare check doesn’t cover.


16 posted on 02/07/2016 5:24:31 AM PST by buffyt (TED CRUZ FOR PRESIDENT 2016 !!!!)
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To: gattaca

Has to be atheist. I truly believe Prissy Obama is too.


17 posted on 02/07/2016 5:25:01 AM PST by buffyt (TED CRUZ FOR PRESIDENT 2016 !!!!)
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To: captmar-vell

“I believe we have a spiritual warfare going on.”

I have said just that for YEARS! So true!


18 posted on 02/07/2016 5:25:47 AM PST by buffyt (TED CRUZ FOR PRESIDENT 2016 !!!!)
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To: Nachum

self-hating Jews are almost a bigger danger to Jews than non-Jewish anti-Semites; they give moral cover to the SJP crowd.


19 posted on 02/07/2016 5:49:31 AM PST by TraditionalMerica
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Even if one disagrees with US policy, it's hard to legitimately criticize Israel for involvement at the behest of the US.

20 posted on 02/07/2016 6:01:28 AM PST by SJackson (What I’m watching in him (O), is uncertainty...a leader doesn’t give sh*t...he gets it don)
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