Bernie Sanders on Permanent Cease-Fire with Hamas: They Want a Permanent War

SANDERS: “Well, first of all, I strongly support and wish and hope that the United States will support the United Nations resolution that was vetoed, that we vetoed the other day. That was a humanitarian pause, a humanitarian cease-fire, that would have, by the way, called for the release of all of the hostages held by Hamas, and would have allowed the U.N. and other agencies to begin to supply the enormous amount of humanitarian aid that the Palestinian people need. In terms of a permanent cease-fire, I don’t know how you could have a permanent cease-fire with Hamas, who have said before October 7 and after October 7 that they want to destroy Israel, they want a permanent war. I don’t know how you have a permanent cease-fire with an attitude like that.”
BRENNAN: Okay, so you — the war, you’re saying, against Hamas is justified in that way?”
SANDERS: “I think Israel has the right to defend itself and to go after Hamas, not the Palestinian people.”