Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders said Sunday he doesn’t know that a ceasefire is possible in the Israel-Hamas war with “an organization like Hamas” involved.
“I don’t know how you can have a ceasefire, (a) permanent ceasefire, with an organization like Hamas, which is dedicated to turmoil and chaos and destroying the state of Israel,” Sanders told CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union” Sunday.
You realize lots of people want to give the Palestinians money, but not Haitians, Guatemalans, or Costa Ricans? If you’d like to hold a Red Cross donation tour, you’re welcome to, but that’s not the same pool of money available for Palestine.
What follows is a bunch of unsurprising anti Islamic sentiment that I’m not responding to.
Enjoy your life.
Most of the aid going to Palestine (both the Gaza Strip and West Bank) comes from government entities and not individuals. Honestly, the impact of individual donations is notable but not significant in the grand scheme of things. If public entities stopped providing funds, depending on the estimates, Palestine would lose 80% of its aid dollars. The US can absolutely choose to fund other nations instead of Palestine. And we (the US) have in part done so with things like Taylor Force Act which has cut about $0.5B in aid to the Palestinian Authority since 2018 because of its Marty Fund paying out when they killed an American.
None of what I said is anti-Islamic in the slightest.