Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) reiterated their beliefs on Sunday that the United States should immediately stop funding Israel’s nearly yearlong military campaign in Gaza, but still tiptoed around the idea of directly pressuring Vice President Kamala Harris following her remarks that essentially vowed to continue arming a country accused by much of the international community of committing genocide against Palestinians.
One of the most prominent issues currently dividing the Democratic Party is Israel’s ongoing siege on Gaza, which began more than 10 months ago when the Hamas militant group attacked the country that killed about 1,200 and took hundreds hostage, with about one hundred of them still remaining in the strip. Israel has since decimated the Palestinian enclave, killing more than 40,000 people, flattening entire neighborhoods, destroying life-saving infrastructure, and causing disease and starvation to spread largely due to blocking…