It’s no coincidence that he spent his honeymoon in the Soviet Union. “Jewish” Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) forced a full Senate vote on a resolution that would order the U.S. to investigate alleged Israel war crimes in its mission to destroy the Hamas terrorist network, and withhold military aid if they are found to have merit. Fortunately, when it came to a vote Tuesday evening, the Senate voted 72-11 to table the resolution, effectively killing it.
The Intercept (h/t Nita) In a statement earlier this month Sanders deemed the Gaza offensive an ‘illegal and immoral war against the Palestinian people.’
“It’s frankly historic that this vote took place at all,” said Andrew O’Neill, the legislative director for the political advocacy group Indivisible. “The number of senators willing to take a vote like this even weeks ago, on the face of it, would have been zero.”
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT), who has a record of scrutinizing human rights abuses by U.S. allies, voted against the resolution. He told The Intercept that he supports Israel’s right to defend itself and that he has deep reservations about the way it has conducted its campaign, but he doesn’t support measures “potentially designed to cut off funding for Israel.” The resolution, he said, is a vehicle toward completely cutting off aid to Israel. “I don’t think that’s the right move for Congress at this time,” he said.
Sen. Mike Braun, (R-IN) said, he opposed the resolution “because I think it then draws attention away from how it started, and how it has to be litigated, and that’s not easy,” referring to Hamas’s attack on October 7 and Israel’s stated aim of rooting out the organization.
Alan Dershowitz: “You can be a Jew and an antisemite…Bernie Sanders, who’s Jewish, is a self-hating Jew” pic.twitter.com/ET3PlM2f2V
— Jason S. Campbell (@JasonSCampbell) May 14, 2021
Conservative radio host and Fox News personality Mark Levin checked off all the fear-mongering boxes on Tuesday by declaring Senator Bernie Sanders an America-hating, Jewish anti-Semite who’s leading the Democratic Party into “embracing an Islamo-Nazi mentality.
Asked if he thought Israel was doing enough to mitigate civilian casualties, Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., told The Intercept that “they need to kill every Hamas member and anybody that dies in Gaza is a result of Hamas.” He voted against the resolution.
Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) referred to Hamas’s attack on Israel as he explained his opposition to the resolution. “To give them respite would be to allow them to do it again,” he told The Intercept. When asked whether Israel is doing enough to protect civilians, Cassidy said “when you build your tunnels with your commanders beneath mosques, hospitals, and schools, then you have created an environment where it’s difficult to prevent civilian injury.”
On his way to vote against the resolution, Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) told The Intercept that he has been consistent with his position on the issue. “Of course it does,” he said when asked if he’s concerned about the number of casualties in Gaza. Asked if Israel is doing enough to mitigate the casualties, he responded simply: “Good talking to you,” as the Senate elevator doors closed.
Sen. Tom Carper (D-DL) , explained his opposition to the resolution by pointing out that 502B(c) has never been used in its 50-year history.
bioya1 says
BERNIE SANDERS:
• Never owned a business
• Never invented anything
• Never had a 9-5 job
• Lived on welfare before he was elected to office
• Kicked out of a hippie commune in 1971 for being lazy
• His success rate for passing bills in congress is < 1% (32 years in Washington)
• Vermont, his home state, rejected his single payer idea as unaffordable
• Was OK with his wife bankrupting Burlington College on the taxpayer’s dime
• Owns 3 homes, including a lakefront cabin
• Earned $1+ million the last 2 years, from a book explaining how to be a commie
• Honeymooned in Moscow in 1988 while the USSR was our #1 enemy
• Quoted as saying breadlines in the USSR were a good thing
• Talks like a socialist but lives like a capitalist
Just like his hero Karl Marx … succeeded at nothing.
Daniel Erbstoesser says
ignore him then his days are counted and its no wonder then its allways the socialist who does things like this just as back in time. Socialismus has tried to install itself over 40 times and all tries failed but this time it will work ….promise. Really is that what we want ..socialismus.
Reader says
Bill Maher Goes Silent When Bernie Humiliates Himself w/ His Ignorance
BareNakedIslam says
Not surprised.
Tim h says
We have here another asshole
Some one put is name down on HC hit list asap cos he might and hopefully have a car accident
Now that would very nice