Sanders: Israel’s 2014 response to Gaza ‘disproportionate’
Bernie Sanders is calling Israel out on how it responded to attacks from Gaza in 2014.
Click here for reuse options!Sanders, who is the first Jewish candidate in U.S. history to win a major presidential primary, discussed the seven-week armed conflict between Israeli and Gazan forces during a taped interview with Jake Tapper on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
“Was Israel’s response disproportionate? I think it was,” Sanders said. The 2014 conflict, which was sparked after Hamas forces in Gaza launched rockets into southern Israel, resulted in the deaths of more than 2,130 Palestinians — 70 percent of whom were civilians, according to the United Nations. Israel, which lost 65 soldiers and 3 civilians in the fighting, claims only 50 percent of Palestinians killed were civilians.
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StoneyCurtisll April 10th, 2016 at 12:47
Uncle Bernie is right…
Anytime Israel is involved with armed conflict with a Palestinian territory, the kill ratio is usually around 80% in favor of of Israel…(for every one Israeli citizen killed 80 Palestinian civilians die)
They call it it “cutting the grass” as if they are mowing the lawn and waiting for the next mass killing of Palestinians..
Suzanne McFly April 10th, 2016 at 14:09
Now the republicans will come out and say Bernie is being antisemitic. The irony never escapes them.
bpollen April 10th, 2016 at 22:32
I can think the gubmint of Israel is, in a perverse show of irony, is fascist without being an anti-Semite. Not that Israel supporters would acknowledge it.
Suzanne McFly April 10th, 2016 at 22:52
What do the republicans get from supporting Netanyahu? He must be funding their campaigns.
bpollen April 10th, 2016 at 22:54
The equivalent of fawning over a dictator, but the oh-so-hetero-Christian variety. (There may be an extraneous “tator” in the preceding sentence.)