BERNIE SANDERS WOULD MOVE EMBASSY OUT OF JERUSALEM IF IT LEADS TO PEACE
https://www.jpost.com/American-Politics/Bernie-Sanders-willing-to-move-embassy-out-of-Jerusalem-if-it-leads-to-peace-590330
Sanders has called the Netanyahu government “racist” in the past, most recently at a CNN Town Hall on last month.
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders expressed his willingness to move the US Embassy from Jerusalem back to Tel Aviv if it would help bring peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians, during an NBC interview this week.The comments were made in response to a question of how he would maintain the strong relations between the United States and Israel, despite his criticism. The senator claimed that he is not anti-Israel, and noted that some members of his family live there and that he volunteered on a kibbutz decades ago.
“As a young man I spent a number of months in Israel, [and] worked on a kibbutz for while. I have family in Israel. I am not anti-Israel. But the fact of the matter is that Netanyahu is a right-wing politician who I think is treating the Palestinian people extremely unfairly,” he said.
Sanders defined himself as “100% pro Israel” but said that he would approach the Israeli-Palestinian conflict differently than past administrations.
“In other words, the goal is to try to unite people and not just support one country, which is now run by a right-wing, dare I say, racist government,” he said. “Israel has every right in the world to exist… in peace and security, and not be subjected to terrorist attacks. But the United States needs to deal with the Palestinian [people] as well and not just Israel.”
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