Sanders: ‘no More Money To Netanyahu's War Machine’

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) again demanded the White House cease sending unconditioned military aid to Israel, calling the war in Gaza an “unprecedented crisis.”

“It's not just that 30,000 people, two-thirds of them are women and children, have already been killed. We are looking at the possibility of hundreds of thousands of children starving to death,” Sanders said. According to Gaza’s Healthy Ministry, Israel’s bombardments and ground assaults have killed more than 30,000 people in the besieged strip, and others are dying of starvation.

“The United States of America cannot be complicit in this mass slaughter of children,” Sanders said Sunday during an interview on CBS’ “Face the Nation.” The administration, he added, “can't beg Netanyahu. You got to tell him ‘If you want any money, you have to change your policy. Allow the trucks to come in to feed the children.’”

Sanders, who also remains insistent that Hamas must be destroyed, has called on Biden to enforce the Foreign Assistance Act, which says that the U.S. will not send aid to any country that blocks or restricts the flow of U.S. humanitarian assistance.

“It turns out that Israel is in violation of the law. Stopping American humanitarian aid is in violation of the law. That should be clear. No more money to Netanyahu's war machine to kill Palestinian children,” Sanders said Sunday.

Despite his increasing pressure on the administration, Sanders made a case for his supporters to back Biden in November’s presidential election, where the president is likely to face an electoral rematch against former President Donald Trump.

“The contrast that I think President Biden made very clear in his State of the Union Address,” Sanders said, later adding that the “contrast between Biden and Trump is day and night. The election of Trump would be a disaster for this country, and, in my view, the world.”