Very interesting article about Bernie in the Jerusalem Post...

[mak3cats]

The article is very even-handed. The comments following? Not so much.

http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Where-does-Bernie-Sanders-the-Jewish-candidate-for-president-stand-on-Israel-412448

[TBF]

1. Bernie favors a two-state solution

which is where I am as well. And I particularly liked this Salon article in which he laid it out:

REHM: Tell me your feeling about whether there should be a two-state solution should Palestine be given statehood?

SANDERS: Absolutely. What you have in that part of the world is an unspeakable tragedy. And it seems like it’s never-ending and it seems like it every year gets worse and worse and more killing and more bombings and everything else. And again, Diane, if I had the magical solution to that problem I would be in the president’s office today giving it. I don’t have it. But clearly the goals are two-fold: number one the Palestinian people, in my view, deserve a state of their own, they deserve an economy of their own, they deserve economic support from the people of this country. And Israel needs to be able to live in security without terrorist attacks. Those are the goals of I think any sensible foreign policy in that region.

http://www.salon.com/2015/06/16/bernie_sanders_im_not_a_great_fan_of_benjamin_netanyahu_partner/

[PatrickforO]

2. Funny how the right wing hates Bernie.

This is because his solutions favor peace and not war.

[TBF]

3. Peace is not profitable -

at least that is their view.

[PatrickforO]

4. Nope. They figure war is good business.

They invest money lobbying and we invest our children.