Bernie Wants To Give Israeli Military Aid to Hamas; What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

During a speech to the left-wing Jewish organization J Street over the weekend, Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders stated that a portion of military aid to Israel should be diverted to the Gaza Strip:


“My solution is, [to say] to Israel, if you want military aid, you’re going to have to fundamentally change your relationship to the people of Gaza. I would say that some of that $3.8 billion should go right now to humanitarian aid in Gaza.”


In other words, instead of our aid going to the Israel's military, Sanders thinks Hamas should get it.


This would be the same Hamas which this summer called upon Palestinians to kill Jews in America.


What could possibly go wrong?


Elizabeth Warren isn't that much more encouraging as she proposes tying future military aid to a settlement freeze:


"Right now, Netanyahu says he is going to take Israel in a direction of increasing settlements, [but] that does not move us in the direction of a two-state solution. It is the official policy of the United States of America to support a two-state solution, and if Israel is moving in the opposite direction, then everything is on the table. Everything is on the table."


This is utterly responsible of Warren when one considers that Israel is currently trying to form a government and Netanyahu might not very well be in the picture. It also disturbing to see that Warren finds nothing objectionable about the Palestinian Authority and doesn't tie their future aid to their support of terror, incitement of hatred against Jews and anti-LGBT measures. I guess double standards must be maintained.


Does this mean Joe Biden is the best hope for pro-Israel voters among Democrats? I still remember when then V-P Biden blasted Israel for so-called settlement construction in East Jerusalem back in 2010 even though the Obama Administration had not restricted building in Jerusalem and the area in question would never become part of a future of Palestinian state.


This leaves Trump. If only he didn't behave in such a lawless and a careless manner I would give his pro-Israel policies much stronger consideration. But Trump's abandonment of the Kurds in Syria does every bit as much to harm as Israel as do Bernie giving billions to Hamas.


This is what happens when you all your choices are a bunch of schmucks.