For Bernie, if it’s not self- hatred, then it’s stupidity

To the editor,

Andrew Silow-Carrol’s JTA article about self hating Jews (“Self-hatred: It’s not just for the self-haters!,” The Jewish Star, Sept. 15) claims that Bernie Sanders is not a self hating Jew just because he has a different political point of view.

The result of Israel’s “occupation” of the territories from the Six Day War is a result of the Arab countries AND Palestinians trying to destroy Israel. There is a price to pay when you commit aggression.

The Palestinians could have had a state of their own in 1947 when the United Nations voted to partition the area into a Jewish and Palestinian state. The Jews said yes and the Palestinians said no. The reason they said no was because by saying yes they would have agreed to the existence of a Jewish state.

From 1948 to 1967 the Jordanians were in control of the West Bank and East Jerusalem and Egypt was in control of Gaza. They could have set up a Palestinian state without requiring Israel’s approval, but all they wanted to do is destroy Israel and throw the Jews into the sea. So they went to war and lost.

Yasir Arafat, the leader of the Palestinians said that creating a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza is only the first step in the liberation of Palestine. Abbas, the current leader of the Palestinian Authority, said a couple of years ago that Jesus was a Palestinian. They teach their children that Jews have no connection at all to the land of Israel and only the Palestinians do.

The Palestinians don’t want the Jews to have their own state. That is a historical fact. Bernie Sanders either ignores all these facts or doesn’t care.

If he is not a self hating Jew than he definitely is a Stupid Jew who lives in La La land.