This one is tough to watch. First, a recent UN report on SA and grapes by Hamas on Israelis, as well as Israeli SA and grapes on Palestinians. Light on details, and Bernie further lightens it by failing to mention the UN report's items regarding alleged Israeli SA/grapes on Palestinians. Both sides! Or... maybe there will be details, evidence, names of victims, prosecutions later.

Oh, there's more. Bernie alleges that American officials (Genocide Joe, Kopmala, Blinken, Sullivan) all want Israel to open the blockade (the post October 7 blockade, not the pre October 7th blockade)) to allow food, water, fuel, electricity to get to Palestinian citizens in Gaza. To avoid widespread famine and disease, instead of to enable/ensure widespread famine and disease. I'd say it's possible BERNIE wants the blockade open, but if the numbers described do not line up with the pre- October 7 blockade/occupation numbers of aid trucks per day (500 trucks per day, apparently) then it's likely bullshit while the Israeli war and genocide against Palestinian civilians continues unabated. With famine, disease, bombings of non-combatants, etc. Make no mistake, Israeli security depends on the forever occupation and oppression of Palestinians, unless the ethnic Palestinians are cleansed to somewhere faraway, or are all made dead by the Israelis defending their ethno-state. During WW2 the Nazi Germans wanted to kill all the Jews, and for some odd reason the Israeli Jews want an ethno-state where the indigenous Palestinian people are violently eliminated one way or another.

Senator Bernie doesn't mention the Israeli occupation of Gaza and Palestine. Senator Bernie doesn't mention that the United States is the superpower backing the Israelis, apparently without a thought as to what the Israelis do to the Palestinians. With weapons, money, political support so Israel can do their massacres, ethnic cleansing, genocide, and other war crimes. Bernie's rhetoric acts as if the flattening of Gaza, and amount of starvation and mass murder, the hassling of civilians to move around, etc., might be the result of a natural disaster, perhaps an earthquake or hurricane. Sure, maybe Bernie -- I don't know what I'm supposed to be agreeing with but I'd say for one thing that the American officials mentioned are not very convincing about relevant topics. Our country is at the mercy of whatever the figurehead Israeli says or does. I'm not persuaded about that either, but other audience members might be. To paraphrase Genocide Joe, He beat the socialist and he enabled mass slaughter of Palestinian non-combatants, maybe even with famine and widespread disease. I guess genocidal occupation and apartheid oppression has its rewards, eh?

See, we get to pretend that we are not complicit in the Israeli atrocities against Palestinian civilians, just because our tax dollars provide them weapons, ammo, money, unlimited political support, and unspecified military participation. Isn't it easy to pretend? Israel is an ethno-state and terrorist state, who have committed a long list of illegalities and atrocities over 75 years to get to this point.