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Bernie Sanders Pushes Back against U.S. Pro-Israel Bias

Hawaii Political Info introduction: Hillary Clinton is solidly pro-Israel, ignores the Jewish country's massacre of Palestinians and the massive theft of their land while strictly adhering to never mentioning in public the hundreds of nukes Israel has.

Salon

April 16, 2016

“We are going to have to treat the Palestinian people with respect and dignity.”

These are truly rare words in U.S. politics, yet they are the words Bernie Sanders uttered in the presidential debate Thursday night.

Replace “Palestinian” with any other people in this statement, and it would be completely uncontroversial. This is how extreme the U.S. is on Israel. But Bernie Sanders is beginning to push back against the dogma.

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