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You can still watch the interview aka the context of the whole post, without an account. That's how I watched it. Here's a youtube link which was dropped today, 20 FEB 2024, and the bot below will provide plenty of privacy centric other links for which you don't need to visit the google site.
The central complaint about Bernie is he will not call for a permanent cease-fire. He will not call out the genocide. He won't go further than calling Israel's government "far right". He has protestors arrested.
I'm going to sound redundant but in the speech you linked to is exactly what I was talking about in the previous. Coaching languge. Steps towards. Only Israel has a right to defend. Sure sure atrocities humanitarian disaster on a scale worse than WW2. But yet no genocide. No cease fire. Just pauses. Very
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We expected better from him.
Heres a summary timeline of how Bernie has been completely out of touch with "The left" on this issue.
Oct 24 2023 NEARLY 300 BERNIE SANDERS ALUMNI CALL ON SENATOR TO BACK A CEASEFIRE IN GAZA
Nov. 29 2023 Bernie Sanders: The left face of genocide
Feb 16 2024 'The Word Genocide Makes Me Queasy’ – Sanders Slammed in Ireland for Gaza Stance
Feb 19 2024 Irish protesters denounce Bernie Sanders as a Zionist genocide denier over Gaza
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: