Video: Bernie Sanders discusses democracy, oligarchs, and the Middle East in Amsterdam
NL TimesThere is great dissatisfaction about the status quo in the United States and many other parts of the world, said U.S. “And if you ask me, the great challenge that we face in this moment; it is that change is going to come,” Sanders said, who also sought the Democratic Party's nomination for president in the 2016 and 2020 U.S. General Elections. Sanders on the Israeli-Palestinian crisis: Gaza "will become much worse as a result" of Hamas attack Speaking about the weekend attack by Hamas in Israel, Sanders said, "Obviously, what is terrible about it is.there will be many thousands of people who will die as a result of what Hamas did, and be injured, and Gaza will be leveled. He said that the Hamas attack makes it harder for people like Sanders to raise attention to Israel's failings with regard to the Palestinian people, while bolstering the extremists on both sides of the conflict. According to Sanders, today’s young people experience the consequences of a failing political system like no one else.