BREAKING: Senate Rejects Sanders-led Effort to Block Arms Sales to Israel
zeteo.com
The vote forced senators to go on the record with where they stand on the Biden administration's unconditional support for Israel.

The vote forced senators to go on the record with where they stand on the Biden administration’s unconditional support for Israel.

  • Keeponstalin@lemmy.world
    29·
    12 hours ago

    "If the Biden administration were in any way serious about wanting Israel to rein in its attacks on civilians and its starvation of northern Gaza, they would at the least welcome a strong vote from the Senate that they could point to in their negotiations with Israel as a sign that Israel has to change its modus operandi for the sake of the bilateral relationship,” Josh Paul, a former director for the State Department’s Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, which oversees US arms transfers, told Zeteo just ahead of Wednesday’s vote.

    “The fact that, on the contrary, they are doing all they can to limit support for this vote clearly demonstrates that the Biden Administration does not only not want to use leverage, it does not even want leverage it could use,” he added

    Senators who voted in favor of at least one of Wednesday’s resolutions:

    Sen. Bernie Sanders

    Sen. Jeff Merkley

    Sen. Peter Welch

    Sen. Elizabeth Warren

    Sen. Brian Schatz

    Sen. Chris Van Hollen

    Sen. Tim Kaine

    Sen. Ed Markey

    Sen. Martin Heinrich

    Sen. Tina Smith

    Sen. Angus King

    Sen. Jon Ossoff

    Sen. Mazie Hirono

    Sen. Dick Durbin

    Sen. Jeanne Shaheen

    Sen. Ben Ray Luján

    Sen. Raphael Warnock

    Sen. Chris Murphy

    Sen. George Helmy

    These senators deserve the recognition for standing up against genocide. Everyone else is complicit at best

    • chingadera@lemmy.world
      12·
      8 hours ago

      I guess the next question is, how many of those spineless fucks voted that way knowing it wouldn’t pass?

      There’s so much inaction on this that I have a very hard time believing they’ve done the right thing more than once when it didn’t matter anymore.