{"id":13731,"date":"2026-08-06T07:35:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T04:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/?p=13731"},"modified":"2026-08-06T07:35:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T04:35:43","slug":"van-jones-el-sayed-wants-israeli-children-bombed-and-rocketed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/van-jones-el-sayed-wants-israeli-children-bombed-and-rocketed\/","title":{"rendered":"Van Jones: El-Sayed Wants Israeli Children Bombed and Rocketed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During CNN&#8217;s election night coverage on Tuesday, Jones took aim at El-Sayed&#8217;s opposition to American weapons sales to Israel, according to <em>Breitbart News<\/em>, calling the policy dangerously extreme and urging the candidate to reconsider.<\/p>\n<p>Jones acknowledged that conditioning aid might be acceptable political territory, but drew a firm line at preventing Israel from purchasing defensive weapons from the United States. He suggested El-Sayed has an opportunity to moderate his position and reassure young Jewish voters who may be concerned about his views.<\/p>\n<p>The CNN senior political commentator expressed hope that El-Sayed would reverse course, emphasising that blocking Israel from acquiring defensive capabilities sends a dangerous signal. Jones warned such a policy amounts to declaring open season on Israeli children.<\/p>\n<p>Jones specifically highlighted the Iron Dome missile defence system, which he described as a Barack Obama-era initiative designed purely for defensive purposes to prevent rockets from striking Israeli civilians. He expressed disbelief that a potential senator would oppose even such defensive measures.<\/p>\n<p>The commentator&#8217;s remarks underscore growing tensions within the Democratic Party over Israel policy, particularly as progressive candidates adopt increasingly critical positions toward the Jewish state. El-Sayed&#8217;s apparent opposition to weapons sales represents a more hardline stance than traditional Democratic support for Israel&#8217;s security needs.<\/p>\n<p>Jones made clear that no reasonable person should advocate leaving Israeli children vulnerable to rocket and bomb attacks, framing the debate as a fundamental question of civilian protection rather than broader geopolitical concerns.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right\"><em>With information from <a href=\"https:\/\/breitbart.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Breitbart News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN commentator Van Jones criticized Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed for opposing U.S. weapons sales to Israel, saying the stance endangers Israeli children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":13730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[9652,2880,279,2882,209,9549,11028],"nfg_topic":[135],"class_list":["post-13731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-abdul-el-sayed","tag-cnn","tag-israel","tag-michigan","tag-united-states","tag-van-jones","tag-weapons-sales","nfg_topic-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13739,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13731\/revisions\/13739"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13731"},{"taxonomy":"nfg_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nfg_topic?post=13731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}