Posted on 02/27/2020 6:24:33 AM PST by karpov
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Mr. Sanders condemns Mr. Netanyahu, who was democratically elected, but he says nothing about Hamas’s dictatorial control of Gaza and missile assaults on Israeli civilians. A U.S. President who is this hostile to Israel would have no chance of persuading Mr. Netanyahu, or any Israeli Prime Minister, to make sacrifices in return for supporting a Palestinian state.
These sympathies are part of Mr. Sanders’s long-time worldview, and he has collected advisers of similar mind. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) is a Bernie backer known for her anti-Israel broadsides that caused House Democrats to rebuke her.
Matt Duss, a Sanders adviser who could run the National Security Council, has written that “Like segregation in the American South, the siege of Gaza (and the entire Israeli occupation, for that matter) is a moral abomination.” Mr. Duss scrapped with the American Jewish Committee, the Simon Wiesenthal Center and the Anti-Defamation League as a blogger for an affiliate of the left-wing Center for American Progress.
On Wednesday Bernie adviser David Sirota tweeted that “I love that Politico’s newsletter for military-industrial complex lobbyists this morning warns that out of all the candidates running, @BernieSanders represents an ‘unprecedented threat to the status quo.’” Mr. Duss retweeted with a “Sounds good.”
Mr. Sirota, a likely aide in a Sanders White House, praised Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez upon his death in 2013 for having “racked up an economic record that a legacy-obsessed American president could only dream of achieving.” This is a crowd that, like Mr. Sanders, looks for the “bright side of the Castro regime” in Cuba, as Pete Buttigieg put it Tuesday night.
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[E]very now and then the mask of soft democratic socialism slips from Mr. Sanders, and the face of hard leftist international solidarity emerges.
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To most it would appear that Bernie has lousy advisers and is about to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory with his praise of Castro and his harsh, offensive criticism of Israel Then again, Sanders does not exist or did not ascend in a political, social or cultural vacuum. He knows the core constituency of of the Democratic Party especially primary voters. Anti Zionism and even overt anti Semitism are positions held by Democrats in good standing. Also the far left has a permanent nest within the Democratic Party and is very activist. It exercises power best in the strange fractured aren of primary elections.
What's his FR nick?
Not to be outdone, Israel’s stealth Bernie, Benny Gantz, has his henchmen calling Pres.Trump “Donald Adolf Trump”.
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Commie Bernie is walking on thin ice.
Why aren’t the Gazans taken in by an Arab country who they haven’t sworn to destroy to the last woman and child? Why do they belong only to Israel?
Come Judgement Day....Bernie is going to BURN....forever.
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