Is Sanders now Disqualified?

Bernie Sanders not only choice not to speak at the upcoming AIPAC conference, but put out a tweet that was highly inflammatory and negative in regards to AIPAC.  I've already had my concerns about him for many reasons, but this puts me over the top when it comes to my complete inability to support him.  When Pete Buttigieg calls out Sanders and his supporters as being divisive, he is right.  When Sanders is asked about how he'll fund Medicare for All, he doesn't answer, and tends to attack anyone who asks reasonable questions.  Does this sound familiar?  I'm beginning to wonder if Bernie Sanders isn't the mirror image of donald trump.

Sanders tweeted that AIPAC is connected to "leaders and express bigotry and oppose basic Palestinian rights."  Everything that I've read about AIPAC says otherwise.  They strive to share a balanced and authentic view of Israel.  This is a subject that I've lived and breathed for nearly fifty years.  It appears that Sanders is either getting bad information, or he truly doesn't understand the impossible situation that Israel is in.  It's possible to care about the Palestinian people and to want to make sure that Israel is safe and secure.  That's what Sanders would have us think is his position.  However, if he truly held those views, he'd know that AIPAC doesn't discount the suffering of the Palestinian people.  However, AIPAC's mission and reason to be is to support Israel's right to exist and to educate congress in relation to that right and the challenges that Israel faces on a daily basis.

The U.N. voted in 1948 for a two state solution for Israel and Palestine.  The surrounding Arab countries chose to denounce this and declared war on Israel.  The Palestinian problem started then and there.  Palestinians have been used for political purposes ever since.  The unfortunate part of this is that the people themselves aren't at fault.  I even understand why those who live under these impossible circumstances would feel the weight of oppression.  There has truly not been any reasonable solution to this situation.  Bernie Sanders should understand all of this, but he doesn't seem to want to take the time to learn the facts.  This is no different than his avoidance of the facts when it comes to Medicare for All.

Bernie Sanders has never been a team player.  He has not passed much legislatively that he has actually sponsored.  Somehow, this isn't surprising.  He is divisive.  He is intolerant of others.  He is actually a bully in his own right.  That's not who we need for the next president.