...no matter what it does is not enough to ensure you'll end up on Twitter and still remain "relevant."Alan Dershowitz lashes out at Bernie Sanders — labels him a ‘self-hating Jew’
— Raw Story (@RawStory) May 15, 2021
https://t.co/2ry0SvUjxv
Or maybe the Dersh thinks he has to hit Sanders quick, because Sanders is making sense:
“Israel has the right to defend itself.”These are the words we hear from both Democratic and Republican administrations whenever the government of Israel, with its enormous military power, responds to rocket attacks from Gaza.Let’s be clear. No one is arguing that Israel, or any government, does not have the right to self-defense or to protect its people. So why are these words repeated year after year, war after war? And why is the question almost never asked: “What are the rights of the Palestinian people?”And why do we seem to take notice of the violence in Israel and Palestine only when rockets are falling on Israel?In this moment of crisis, the United States should be urging an immediate cease-fire. We should also understand that, while Hamas firing rockets into Israeli communities is absolutely unacceptable, today’s conflict did not begin with those rockets.
There is the argument that the Biden Administration is using that well-worn phrase just now in order to cajole the Netenyahu government (who loved it some Trump stupidity) into beginning to stand down from red alert.
But I'm with Bernie; I'm completely sick of that phrase. The only purpose to it is to dehumanize the inhabitants of the Gaza Strip so we don't worry about what they are suffering. Because being aware of their suffering is anti-semitic; or something.
Many a truth, etc., etc.Palestinian Family Who Lost Home In Airstrike Takes Comfort In Knowing This All Very Complicated https://t.co/bmKJ8lwYsB pic.twitter.com/hgcPgyoRWs
— The Onion (@TheOnion) May 12, 2021
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