Tuesday, November 19, 2019

COUNT BERNIE SANDERS AMONG THE RADICAL VOICES THREATENING ISRAEL

Israeli UN envoy Danon slams Bernie Sanders's Israel comments

Israel Hayom
November 18, 2019

Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon didn’t mince words when slamming Bernie Sanders’s recent remarks about US aid to Israel on Sunday night.

Speaking at the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) gala in New York City, Danon said: “Mr. Sanders, a few months on a kibbutz in 1963 can only teach you so much." He was referring to the Vermont senator’s brief time at an Israeli kibbutz near Haifa in his youth.

Danon then attacked Sanders for comments he made during the J Street Annual conference in Washington, DC last month. There, Sanders declared that some of the $3.8 billion in aid the US allocates to Israel, should be given to the Gazan people as well.

“My solution is, to Israel, if you want military aid you’re going to have to fundamentally change your relationship to the people of Gaza,” Sanders said. “I would say that some of the $3.8 billion should go right now to humanitarian aid in Gaza.”

Finding that stance absurd, Danon said such a belief would “undermine the security of both Israel and the US”

“Perhaps Mr. Sanders didn’t hear about Israel leaving Gaza in 2005,” he said. “Maybe he hasn’t had the chance to visit the Kerem Shalom crossing, where hundreds of trucks pass daily to provide humanitarian aid to Gaza. Maybe he doesn’t know about the terror tunnels.”

“[Sanders] is suggesting to give less military assistance to the United States’ most important ally in the Middle East in order to give it to Hamas, a terrorist organization that celebrated the tragedy of 9/11,” he continued.

Danon vowed to fight against these “radical” voices threatening Israel.

In addition to Sanders’s J Street comments, he’s also called Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu government “racist” and has aligned himself with vociferous anti-Israel critics like US Democratic congresswomen Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and Linda Sarsour.

According to a CBS poll, Bernie Sanders is now polling at 18%, behind Elizabeth Warren (26%) and Joe Biden (29%).

1 comment:

bob walsh said...

Did he go to Israel on his way TO Russia or on his way FROM Russia?