Bernie Sanders, the socialist senator from Vermont who has been anything but helpful to Israel over the years, acknowledged that a permanent ceasefire with Hamas is likely impossible.

�I don�t know how you can have a permanent ceasefire with Hamas, who has said before October 7 and after October 7, that they want to destroy Israel and they want a permanent war,� Sanders says in an interview on CBS�s �Face the Nation.�

�I don�t know how you have a permanent ceasefire with an attitude like that� I think Israel has the right to defend itself and to go after Hamas, not the Palestinian people.�