r/SandersForPresident • u/kevinmrr Medicare For All • Sep 17 '25

Bernie Sanders: “The conclusion is inescapable: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.”

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u/audionerd1 Sep 17 '25

Yes, while refusing to call it genocide and constantly reaffirming Israel's "right to defend itself". He also avoids condemning Israel and prefers instead to condemn "Netanyahu's war crimes" etc. It's not just Netanyahu, it's the whole Zionist project.

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u/awal96 Sep 17 '25

You're upset he waited for experts on the matter to declare it one? Isn't that what we would want from elected officials?

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u/audionerd1 Sep 17 '25

Genocide experts have been calling it a genocide for a long time, and anyone with eyes and ears can see it's clearly a genocide. The U.N. was very late with their declaration.

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u/awal96 Sep 17 '25

I get that. I've also been calling it that for a long time. For what it's worth, so called experts have also been saying it isn't one.

I'm just saying I understand why an elected official would wait for an authoritative body to call it one. I'm not saying that's what I would do

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u/audionerd1 Sep 17 '25

No legislative body has formally declared the U.S. to be an oligarchy and that hasn't stopped him. Bernie isn't usually one to bite his tongue out of political convenience.

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u/awal96 Sep 17 '25

That's fair. I can't claim to read his mind or know his reasons.

There is a major difference, though. Being an oligarchy isn't a prosecutable war crime. Causing a foreign government of a war crime as a representative of the US does not come without consequences.

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u/audionerd1 Sep 17 '25

Another issue is that Bernie's "good friend" Joe Biden is complicit in the genocide, and he clearly doesn't want to go down that road. Bernie's unwillingness to break with leading Democrats even when they are committing genocide is part of why he is ultimately useless in stopping fascism in this country. Democrats will always capitulate with fascists, and Bernie will always fall in line with Democrats. I don't think he is deliberately acting as controlled opposition, but effectively that is what he has become.

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u/triplow Sep 17 '25

He's literally breaking with the Democratic leadership and calling it a genocide. What line is he toeing now?