{"id":61967,"date":"2018-06-03T17:05:20","date_gmt":"2018-06-03T15:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=61967"},"modified":"2018-06-03T08:06:45","modified_gmt":"2018-06-03T06:06:45","slug":"12-05-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=61967","title":{"rendered":"Bernie Sanders: An Accessory to Terror at the Gaza Border"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Bernie Sanders: An Accessory to Terror at the Gaza Border<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

Stephen M. Flatow \/ JNS.org<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Gazans send ignited kites over the border with Israel as part of the weekly Friday protests at the southern border on May 4, 2018. Photo: Abed Rahim Khatib\/ Flash90.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

JNS.org \u2013 The Gaza border conflict is being fought on two battlefields simultaneously. One is the battle at the border fence, where the aggressors use Molotov cocktails, pipe bombs, rocks, sling shots, burning tires, and flaming kites. The other is the battle for the hearts and minds of the American public, where the aggressors use distortions, omissions, fabrications, and innuendo.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the battle for public opinion, Israel faces two formidable opponents: the far-left wing of the Democratic Party, and a large number of major news-media outlets. The two work hand in hand, feeding off one another, with belligerent political figures repeatedly appearing as commentators and then in turn issuing statements against Israel, which eager news hounds blast across the headlines.<\/span><\/p>\n

Israeli Deputy Cabinet Minister Michael Oren had some very interesting things to say about this problem last week in a conference call with pro-Israel activists in the United States. The call was sponsored by American Friends of Likud and the Endowment for Middle East Truth.<\/span><\/p>\n

Oren served as Israel\u2019s ambassador to the United States from 2009 to 2013. He\u2019s a political moderate who represents the centrist Kulanu Party in the governing coalition. Over the years, he has emerged as one of Israel\u2019s most effective English-language spokesmen, and is known for his measured tone. There are no hysterics when he speaks. He sure didn\u2019t mince words, however, in his assessment of those who are misrepresenting and even rationalizing the Gaza mobs.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI am deeply disappointed that Senator Dianne Feinstein is calling for an \u2018international investigation\u2019 into Israel\u2019s actions, and that Senator Bernie Sanders has now gone so far as to call for the Palestinian \u2018right of return\u2019 to Israel,\u201d said Oren. \u201cCalling for the \u2018right of return\u2019 is essentially calling for the destruction of Israel.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Sanders\u2019 office last week circulated a video highlighting the \u201cright of return.\u201d When pressed by reporters, he declined to say whether he endorses or opposes it. But if your staff circulates a propaganda video, and you don\u2019t specifically disown and condemn it, then that constitutes a de facto endorsement.<\/span><\/p>\n

Palestinian Arab spokesmen, by the way, are not at all coy about the issue. The say openly that their goal is to have millions of Arabs \u201creturn\u201d to Israel in order to become the majority of the population \u2014 so that it will no longer be a Jewish state.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sanders has also rationalized the mass violence. In a May 15 tweet, he declared: \u201cIt\u2019s important to understand the desperate situation out of which these protests have arisen.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Deputy Minister Oren said that, \u201cthe problem is that Senator Sanders, in many ways, is setting the tone for the policies of the entire Democratic Party.\u201d This, he warned, should be \u201ca source for acute concern\u201d among Israelis, as well as friends of Israel abroad.<\/span><\/p>\n

Seeking support for Israel among both Democrats and Republicans should still be Israel\u2019s goal, Oren said, noting that \u201cit\u2019s important that neither side should assume that they have the Jewish vote in their pocket.\u201d He added, \u201cThe historical example I always give to illustrate this principle is the fact that Franklin Roosevelt got 90 percent of the Jewish vote, and yet he did absolutely nothing for European Jews during the Holocaust.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Oren acknowledged there are \u201csignificant obstacles\u201d to winning over substantial support among Democrats. Part of the problem, in his view, is the \u201cpolitical culture among young Democrats.\u201d Some of the values that are very important to Israelis, \u201csuch as family, tradition, and the need for a strong military,\u201d are \u201cnot necessarily prevalent among many younger Democrats.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The Sanders perspective is also being amplified by large segments of the news media, Oren pointed out. \u201cMany news media representatives couldn\u2019t care less when Arabs kill Arabs in various countries; they only care about Arab deaths when Jews are forced to kill Arabs in self-defense.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Oren also reminded us that the Western news media seldom report that \u201cHamas starves its own population, blocks trucks coming from Israel with food, and manipulates young Palestinians to go to the border fence \u2014 all for the purpose of getting killed, so that their sympathizers can get on television and accuse the Israelis of being killers.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

He said that if the statements made by Sanders and biased media outlets \u201cpersuade Hamas that its strategy is working, [and that leads Hamas to send] more young people to the border fence to throw bombs,\u201d then those media representatives and political figures will \u201cbecome accessories to terror, abettors to terror \u2014 the blood of those young people will be on their hands.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Stephen M. Flatow, a vice president of Religious Zionists of America, is an attorney in New Jersey. He is the father of Alisa Flatow, who was murdered in an Iranian-sponsored Palestinian terrorist attack in 1995.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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