During Tuesday’s Democratic debate, Sanders said he would consider moving the US embassy in Jerusalem back to Tel Aviv
By Howie Katz
Bernie Sanders has made numerous anti-Israel statements, some of which have been considered anti-Semitic. During Tuesday’s Democratic debate he made a statement that infuriated Israel Foreign Minister Yisrael Katz.
Sanders was asked if as president he’d return the US Embassy in Jerusalem to Tel Aviv. He said he would certainly consider doing so.
That blew Katz’s cork. Speaking to Israel Army Radio on Wednesday, Katz said “That remark was shocking. There is no Jew who hasn’t dreamed of Jerusalem for thousands of years, to return, and we returned and I think President Trump did an important thing, without connection to internal disagreements within the United States. He recognized the reality that Jerusalem is the capital of the Jewish people, the capital of the State of Israel.”
Katz insisted that no matter who wins the US election in November, Israel will stand firm on Trump’s recognition of a united Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
I think Katz got a little carried away in his remark that “There is no Jew who hasn’t dreamed of Jerusalem for thousands of years, to return …..,” but that doesn’t change the fact that the Israelis insist on an undivided Jerusalem as their capital and that most Jews outside of Israel agree with them.
Crazy Bernie is one of Israel’s worst enemies and his election as president would be disastrous for the Jewish state. Not only will he likely return the embassy back to Tel Aviv, but he will most certainly rescind the Trump policies on the settlements and the Golan Heights. And of course, he will trash Trump’s Deal of the Century peace plan and take a pro-Palestinian stance in the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.
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