[rad-green] Progressives Praise Sanders for Answer on Israel-Palestine Conflict at CNN Town Hall

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Dreams          February 19, 2020'So Refreshing to Hear This': Progressives
Praise Sanders for Answer on Israel-Palestine Conflict at CNN Town Hall"I
have never heard a major U.S. presidential candidate talk like this in my
life."by Eoin Higgins, staff writer*

[image: Sen. Bernie Sanders, a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate,
speaks during the 2019 J Street National Conference at the Walter E.
Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. on October 28, 2019.]

*Sen. Bernie Sanders, a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, speaks
during the 2019 J Street National Conference at the Walter E. Washington
Convention Center in Washington, D.C. on October 28, 2019. (Photo: Mandel
Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)*

Sen. Bernie Sanders told a *CNN* town hall in Las Vegas on Tuesday that if
elected president his foreign policy would prioritize justice and peace in
the Middle East and not reflexively back Israel against the Palestinians.

"What American foreign policy has got to be about in the Middle East, is
bringing the Israelis and bringing the Palestinians together under the
banner of justice," said Sanders. "We could do it, we have the wealth to do
it. It cannot just simply be that we're just pro Israel and we ignore the
needs of the Palestinian people."

The senator also said his administration would call on Saudi Arabia and
Iran to set aside their differences and find common ground.

Watch:

.@BernieSanders <https://twitter.com/BernieSanders?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw> on
#CNNTownHall
<https://twitter.com/hashtag/CNNTownHall?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>: "To
be for the Israeli people and to be for peace in the Middle East does not
mean that we have to support right wing racist governments that currently
exist in Israel... pic.twitter.com/L3tqrt3pcE <https://t.co/L3tqrt3pcE>
— People for Bernie (@People4Bernie) February 19, 2020
<https://twitter.com/People4Bernie/status/1229946149491990528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>

"It's so refreshing to hear this," said
<https://twitter.com/shadihamid/status/1229981390252449799> Brookings
Institute fellow Shadi Hamid. "Listen to the whole thing. This is what
moral clarity on the Middle East sounds like."

The comments by Sanders, a 2020 Democratic presidential primary candidate,
received praise from progressives who welcomed the Vermont senator's
straight talk about his left-leaning ideals.

"I have never heard a major U.S. presidential candidate talk like this in
my life," tweeted
<https://twitter.com/mehdirhasan/status/1230126970161303552> *The Intercept*'s
Mehdi Hasan.

"I've said it before and I will say it again," Hasan added
<https://twitter.com/mehdirhasan/status/1230127208993370113>. "Yes, a
President Sanders would be a radical change from the 'norm' on domestic
policy but he'd be a really really really radical change from the 'norm' on
U.S. foreign policy!"

Citing the applause received by Sanders after his comments, Quincy
Institute for Responsible Statecraft vice president Trita Parsi said
<https://twitter.com/tparsi/status/1230129824062169088> that Sanders was
speaking to a large and growing feeling on the part of the U.S. electorate.

"The politics of these issues have changed dramatically precisely because
the American people are sick and tired of endless war," said Parsi.

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