Sen. Bernie Sanders (D- VT) Talks About Frustration On Humanitarian Aid In Gaza

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"Well, it's not a question of quelling frustration, Dana. It's a question of feeding starving children. We are looking at one of the great humanitarian crises in modern history. Hundreds of thousands of children are facing starvation. The United States, sadly, because we are arming the Israelis, is complicit in what's happening. It's got to stop.

So I think when the President talks about airlifts, I think that's a step forward. When he talks about a pier and providing aid through the sea, that's a step forward. But at the end of the day, the way you get aid into northern Gaza is by demanding that the water restrictions be lifted, the convoys come in, and we start feeding people.

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No, I'm not. It's a step forward. But we have a long way to go. But the bottom line is, right now, Israel, in my view, certainly had a right to defend itself from the terrible Hamas attack on October 7th. They do not have a right to go to war against the entire Palestinian people. It is a mistake, to my mind, to be thinking about giving Netanyahu and his right-wing government another $10 billion. That's wrong. I oppose it. I hope the President will eventually oppose it.

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You think it might be Donald Trump?

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Might be, good guess. Yes, I think it is.

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I think it's an important message. Look, we as Americans are going to have different points of view, political points of view. But I would hope that every American appreciates that hundreds of thousands of men and women who put their lives on the line died to defend democracy and to defend freedom. And you have a former president whose name I will not mention, begins with a T, I won't mention it, though, who really is trying to undermine democracy. And I hope that we can come together and say, look, you disagree with me, fine. But elections are elections, somebody wins, you respect it. You call up that person. You don't try to make it harder for people to vote, you try to expand our democracy. So I think the President's point is a - an important one

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Thank you."

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