Vermont Business Magazine Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) Sunday released the following statement on the ongoing war in Gaza.
“The United States cannot continue to fund Netanyahu’s horrific war against the Palestinian people. This is not JUST about 27,000 Palestinians killed and 67,000 wounded - two-thirds of whom are women and children. This is not JUST about 70% of the housing units in Gaza being destroyed or damaged. This is not JUST about 1.7 million people driven from their homes. This is not JUST about hundreds of thousands of Palestinian children starving to death.
"This is also about our credibility in the international community and what this country stands for. If we continue to fund Netanyahu’s indiscriminate war how can we, with a straight face, criticize Putin’s targeting of civilians and civilian infrastructure in Ukraine as a war crime? How can we criticize China, Saudi Arabia, and other countries for their many violations of human rights? Who in the world will not see through the hypocrisy?
For the sake of the Palestinian people and our own standing in the world we must not provide another dollar for the Netanyahu war machine.”
Source: WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 — Sen. Bernie Sanders
