My friend Eliot Fearey took this photo at Bernie Sanders’s huge rally in Seattle Saturday night. The Vermont senator is getting heat from his leftwing base over Palestine. Sanders has a soft spot in his heart for Israel, where he went to live as a young man. He has given the same answer on Israel and Palestine forever and stood by Israel during the Gaza slaughter of last summer.
Of course the issue is whether the question will have any traction in the presidential race. Fearey reports that Sanders supported the Iran Deal at the rally but did not address the Israel Palestine conflict.
On Saturday, #BlackLivesMatters made the news in Seattle because they disrupted a Sanders appearance. At the later rally pictured, Sanders said he will be a crusading advocate for racial justice.
The Hill: Poll: Sanders surges ahead of Clinton in New Hampshire:
It is always dangerous to call a candidate a sure thing when a single ballot has yet to be counted. Just ask Ed Muskie. (You’ll have to use a seance.) Still New Hampshire certainly does not reflect the Democratic Party and I still have to consider Hillary the favorite. But not the shoo-in that I once thought. The American public gets tired of yesterday’s stars and always hungers for the new and Hillary has had much more than 15 minutes. (It is almost 24 years since her “stay home and bake cookies” appearance at half time of the Super Bowl in 1992).
One other factor: If on the initial vote by the Congress if the block the deal folks get more than 2/3rds of both houses, the override vote will be fierce and ugly and it’s tough to be sure exactly what it will look like and how that will overflow into the presidential contest.
There isn’t one person in the US ‘government’ that is looking for justice in Palestine. Know the US ‘government’ is extremely corrupt, not a democracy but an oligarchy. Whomever the US ‘votes” in as ‘president’ will be an adversary of human rights and someone human rights activists will have to rally against and oppose. Whomever the US ‘votes” in as ‘president’ will be just as corrupt, will be actively engaged in crimes sending military aid illegally, in support of the criminal ‘state’ of “Israel.”: US Is an Oligarchy Not a Democracy, says Scientific Study: http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/04/14/us-oligarchy-not-democracy-says-scientific-study
Bernie Sanders supporters can endorse his platform and advocate for additional issues (such as Justice 4 Palestine). Already, the platform has been updated to include Racial Justice.
At least the British are doing their bit trying to get justice for the Palestinians.
Something we can never do over here in the US. At least in many European countries
the zionists are unable to control many aspects of their system, unlike in our unfortunate country. Still, I am sure they will be called “anti-semitic”.
“41,000 Sign British Petition Calling for Netanyahu’s Arrest Over ‘war Crimes’
After 10,000 signatures the government must respond to the petition, and after 100,000 signatures it will be considered for debate in Parliament.
read more: http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/1.670864