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Bernie Sanders accuses Israeli government of atrocities, calls for investigation

December 16, 2023 | | Print Article

Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) stepped up the progressive left’s pressure campaign to force Israel to call off its military operation against the Hamas terrorists in Gaza.

On Friday, the avowed socialist accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of being in violation of international law and committing “atrocities” over the Jewish nation’s bombing campaign that seeks to eradicate the organization responsible for the massacre of over a thousand Israelis in an October sneak attack.

The twice-failed Democrat presidential candidate introduced a resolution in the U.S. Senate to force a debate on the “indiscriminate bombing being carried out by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing government” with the objective being an investigation that could result in the cutting off of aid to America’s vital Middle Eastern ally.

“We all know Hamas’ brutal terrorist attack began this war,” Comrade Bernie said in a Friday statement. “But the Netanyahu government’s indiscriminate bombing is immoral, it is in violation of international law, and the Congress must demand answers about the conduct of this campaign. A just cause for war does not excuse atrocities in the conduct of that war.”

Sanders’ resolution seeks to use the Foreign Assistance Act, a law governing foreign aid that probits assistance to any country found to engage in  “gross violations of internationally recognized human rights” to force the State Department to submit a report on potential rights violations within 30 days or security assistance is cut off.

“The scale of the suffering in Gaza is unimaginable – it will be remembered among some of the darkest chapters of our modern history. This is a humanitarian cataclysm, and it is being done with American bombs and money. We need to face up to that fact – and then we need to end our complicity in those actions,” Sanders said.

The socialist senator is also demanding that Biden halt funding the Jewish democracy’s war on the terrorists that attacked it and to support a resolution by the Israel-hating United Nations for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.

In a four-page letter to Biden this week, Sanders invoked the 1945 Allied bombing of the German city of Dresden and the firebombing of Japan during World War II for sheer hyperbole.

Sanders’ resolution comes as Biden has been showing signs of cracking under the relentless pressure for a ceasefire, seeming to throw Netanyahu under the bus in remarks to Democrat donors during a closed door meeting this week.

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“I think he has to change, and with this government, this government in Israel is making it very difficult for him to move,” Biden reportedly told the high rollers, describing Netanyahu’s regime as the “most conservative government in Israel’s history.”

Biden also reportedly said that the Jewish democracy “has most of the world supporting it,” but added, “they’re starting to lose that support by the indiscriminate bombing that takes place.”

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