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2020-02-26 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Sanders considers moving U.S. embassy back to Tel Aviv if elected
[YNet] - Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said at a party debate Tuesday that he would consider moving the U.S. embassy from Jerusalem back to Tel Aviv if elected president.

When asked at the South Carolina event to address U.S.-Israeli relations and whether he would move the American Embassy from Jerusalem back to Tel Aviv, Sanders said, "The answer is it’s something we would take into consideration."

The Vermont senator took pride in his Jewish heritage and then went on to attack Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, labeling him a "reactionary racist."

"I am very proud of being Jewish," Sanders said. "I actually lived in Israel for some months, but what I happen to believe is that right now, sadly, tragically, in Israel, through... Netanyahu, you have a reactionary racist who is now running that country."
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-02-26 03:15|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ]  Top

#1 I suspect that you and tw have already explained this using one-syllable words, but tell me again why any American Jew in his right mind would think about voting for Sanders?
Posted by Matt 2020-02-26 07:22||   2020-02-26 07:22|| Front Page Top

#2 ^why any American Jew in his right mind
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-02-26 07:31||   2020-02-26 07:31|| Front Page Top

#3 /\ See the term "Useful Idiot". More devout in worshiping the United Front of the Left than their own group's interests and/or religion.
Posted by magpie 2020-02-26 09:49||   2020-02-26 09:49|| Front Page Top

#4 You can think of this as 2000 years of Stockholm syndrome.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-02-26 10:05||   2020-02-26 10:05|| Front Page Top

#5 Why should someone's religion determine what they think about a foreign country?

Is a Catholic president supposed to put the Vatican's interests first? That was one of the major arguments against electing JFK.
Posted by Herb McCoy 2020-02-26 10:37||   2020-02-26 10:37|| Front Page Top

#6 I think JFK was as much a Catholic as Bernie is a Jew.
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-02-26 10:45||   2020-02-26 10:45|| Front Page Top

#7 To be fair, I don't think the pope lets his Catholicism get in the way of his policy.
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-02-26 11:53||   2020-02-26 11:53|| Front Page Top

#8 Israel is a foreign country just like Mexico, Hungary, or Japan. Ally or not, imagine a US president putting their interests before our own. Just because he's the same religion as them? Insanity.

And since when do countries have state religions anyway? Isn't that something that went out centuries ago, for very well-founded reasons? Separation of church and state is a sound principle.

AMERICA FIRST. I don't get what's so hard to understand about this concept.
Posted by Herb McCoy 2020-02-26 12:03||   2020-02-26 12:03|| Front Page Top

#9 Don't feed the troll.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-02-26 12:17||   2020-02-26 12:17|| Front Page Top

#10 We get it. You don't like Jooos or Israel. They are, however, a pretty-dependable ally and security cooperator, national and international. Keep up the self-defeating agitprop
Posted by Frank G 2020-02-26 12:17||   2020-02-26 12:17|| Front Page Top

#11 NO foreign country comes before America, ever. I don't care if you share their religion or not. Every country looks to its own interests and putting our interests last in favor of foreigners is what led us to the huge problems we have today.

Somehow I think more of the same isn't the solution. A change is needed, a clean break.
Posted by Herb McCoy 2020-02-26 12:43||   2020-02-26 12:43|| Front Page Top

#12 Why should someone's religion determine what they think about a foreign country?

Would it be rude to mention Islam?
Posted by SteveS 2020-02-26 12:44||   2020-02-26 12:44|| Front Page Top

#13 I think what Herb is saying is that George W. should have just nuked everything from Saudi to Pakistain, but let his Christian beliefs put foreign civilian lives ahead of US policy, the world would be peaceful, especially considering all those countries' governments operate according to their state religion of Islam.
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-02-26 12:55||   2020-02-26 12:55|| Front Page Top

#14 Just started Raymond Ibrahim’s’s book Sword and Scimitar. It makes it pretty clear why religion is a key concern in foreign policy opinions. And as for America First, absolutely, and America’s good friends a close second. After all the decades of trying to find a solution, why are we still talking about this.
Posted by NoMoreBS 2020-02-26 12:56||   2020-02-26 12:56|| Front Page Top

#15 You're feeding the troll. Didn't you even notice how he changed the subject from Bernie "anti-Zionism" to "NO foreign country comes before America, ever."?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-02-26 13:17||   2020-02-26 13:17|| Front Page Top

#16 Since when does shutting down argument ever result in more wisdom?

I look forward to having my views challenged! I enjoy argument!

What I don't enjoy is whataboutism and name-calling. People who do this know their arguments can't win in an open marketplace of ideas. They have to have complete control over the conversation to stay afloat. They always have to push for a situation that makes it harder for any voice but theirs be heard.
Posted by Herb McCoy 2020-02-26 13:56||   2020-02-26 13:56|| Front Page Top

#17 Brandolini principle.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-02-26 14:09||   2020-02-26 14:09|| Front Page Top

#18 It was intersting to see the moderators try to pin warren down on that question. They really wanted an answer.
Posted by rjschwarz 2020-02-26 14:13||   2020-02-26 14:13|| Front Page Top

#19 the real question is not why an American jew would support Israel or not, but why any Jew would support Communist ideology.
Posted by rjschwarz 2020-02-26 14:14||   2020-02-26 14:14|| Front Page Top

#20 after all, National Socialism worked out so well for them
Posted by Frank G 2020-02-26 14:31||   2020-02-26 14:31|| Front Page Top

#21 Ref #16: Let us know if it gets too tough in here. None recently, but we have approved dozens of blogospheric transfers in the past. Please keep us posted. We are here for you.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-02-26 14:40||   2020-02-26 14:40|| Front Page Top

#22 imagine a US president putting their interests before our own

Uh, Clinton?
Posted by Skidmark 2020-02-26 14:40||   2020-02-26 14:40|| Front Page Top

#23 Imagine a leader unbound by the moralities of religion.
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-02-26 15:02||   2020-02-26 15:02|| Front Page Top

#24 Mmmm, Obama?
Posted by Skidmark 2020-02-26 15:26||   2020-02-26 15:26|| Front Page Top

#25 Obama was loyal to Islam.
Posted by Crusader 2020-02-26 15:34||   2020-02-26 15:34|| Front Page Top

#26 Ref #16 Whataboutism is a fully acceptable and valid basis for argument.
Posted by Ebboluns Shong6204 2020-02-26 15:54||   2020-02-26 15:54|| Front Page Top

#27 Like it was said by someone I cannot recall:

Nations do not have friends, but they may have common interests with other nations.
Posted by Alaska Paul 2020-02-26 16:12||   2020-02-26 16:12|| Front Page Top

#28 There are no American flags or flags of any country on Judgement Day HM. In Christianity, Christ comes first. Get over it.
Posted by Goober Tingle7365 2020-02-26 18:09||   2020-02-26 18:09|| Front Page Top

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