Bernie Sanders says Joe Biden’s warning to Benjamin Netanyahu is ‘a good step forward’ but calls for ‘even more’
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said President Biden’s warning to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was a “good step forward” in a Wednesday interview, but he hopes to see “even more” from the president going forward. “Well, I think it’s a good step forward. I think we’ve got to do even more,” Sanders told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins in an interview Wednesday. “The bottom line is, Kaitlan, is what Netanyahu has done in Gaza is unconscionable.” “In my view, Netanyahu should not have gotten a nickel so long as he continued this incredibly destructive war. I’m glad to see that the President is beginning – beginning – to move in that direction,” Sanders added. Sanders’s remarks come after Biden warned in an earlier interview that he would stop supplying Israel with offensive weapons like bombs and artillery shells if Israeli forces launch an invasion of Rafah, laying down a clear line amid outcry over the conflict in Gaza. “I made it clear that if they go into Rafah — they haven’t gone in Rafah yet — if …