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Sanders Urges Washington to Halt Aid to Israel


Sat 17 Aug 2019 | 11:11 AM
Ahmed Moamar

US Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders, who will run for presidential election next year, said that the billions of dollars of military and economic aid given to Israel every year should be halted.

The Israeli government has denied entering of two democratic Congresswomen Elhan Omar and Rahsida Talib.

Omar is a Muslim immigrant from Somalia in the Horn of African.

Meanwhile, Talib is, a Palestinian origin, US lawmaker.

https://see.news/israel-considers-denying-entry-to-outspoken-us-congresswomen/

Sanders went on to say in remarks to “MSNBC, a US  News Channel, that preventing two members of the US Congress from visiting  a country that receives billions of dollars from US is a blatant.

If Israel doesn't want them to visit the occupied territories to see what's going on there, it must also refuse to accept billions of dollars that we offer to Israel, he said.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/15/20804614/bernie-sanders-twitch-presidential-campaign-gamers-streaming-donations-streamlabs-fec

"I am shocked, it is tragic that we have a racist and religious fanatic president," Sanders  commented upon  Netanyahu's decision to ban the entry of Rashida Talib and Ilhan Omar.

He urged the US administration to pursue a balanced policy in the Middle East that protects Israel's independence and security, but it also respects the Palestinian people, who suffer a lot in Gaza and elsewhere.

He added "I think the thing the United States should do, especially given the huge sums we spend there, is to ask the Israeli and Palestinian leadership to sit together and start trying to bridge the gaps to bring peace to this disputed region.

It is worth to mention that Bernie Sanders is one of the world’s most effective critics of Jeff Bezos and the fact that Amazon paid no federal income tax last year. And the Bezos-owned newspaper has exhibited an unrelenting bias against Sanders in recent years — perhaps most acutely in March 2016, when FAIR analyst Adam Johnson famously wrote an article that quickly went viral: “Washington Post Ran 16 Negative Stories on Bernie Sanders in 16 Hours.” Among the Post's headlines during that period: “Five Reasons Bernie Sanders Lost Last Night’s Democratic Debate,” followed an hour later by “Bernie Sanders’s Two Big Lies About the Global Economy,” followed a few hours later by “Even Bernie Sanders Can Beat Donald Trump.”