US Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders should be given “credit” for skipping an AIPAC conference earlier; however, the Vermont senator is “still imagining that there will be a two-state solution” to the conflict in the Middle East, says a political commentator.
Sanders was the only 2016 presidential candidate who did not address the annual policy conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee on Monday and instead called on Tel Aviv to end construction of illegal settlements.
“We have to give Bernie credit for not speaking to AIPAC and for saying it’s time to stop the expansion of these settlements,” Kevin Barrett told Press TV on Wednesday.
However, the progressive candidate who calls himself a socialist “is not saying that the Israelis have to go back to the pre-1967 borders, which is in fact the official position of the entire world,” he noted, calling Sanders’ stance “hardly radical.”
The senator believes that…