WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Bernie Sanders is preparing several resolutions that would stop more than $20 billion in U.S. arms sales to Israel, a longshot effort but the most substantive pushback yet from Congress over the devastation in Gaza ahead of the first year anniversary of the Israel-Hamas war.
In a letter to Senate colleagues on Wednesday, Sanders said the U.S. cannot be “complicit in this humanitarian disaster.” The action would force an eventual vote to block the arms sales to Israel, though majority passage is highly unlikely.
“Much of this carnage in Gaza has been carried out with U.S.-provided military equipment,” Sanders, I-Vt., wrote.
As the war grinds toward a second year, and with the outcome of President Joe Biden’s efforts to broker a cease-fire deal and hostage release uncertain, the resolutions from Sanders would seek to reign in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s assault on Gaza. The war has killed some 41,000 people in Gaza after the surprise Oct. 7 Hamas-led attack that killed about 1,200 people in Israel, and abducted 250 others, with militants still holding around 100 hostages.
While it’s doubtful the politically split Senate would pass the measures, the move is designed to send a message to the Netanyahu regime that its war effort is eroding the U.S.'s longtime bipartisan support for Israel. Sanders said he is working with other colleagues on the measures.
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Under the Senate rules, once Sanders introduces the resolutions next week, he can force a vote almost instantly for consideration. The measures are being proposed as a joint resolution of disapproval of the arms sales, which is a mechanism that allows congressional oversight of foreign affairs.
Sanders said he would have some backing for his proposal. But it is not expected to have support from a majority, 51 votes, in the Senate to pass.
In the House, blocking the Israeli arms sales would face even tougher odds, where Republicans hold the majority, and have largely sided with Netanyahu’s approach to the war with Hamas.
Oh good, we can still count on Bernie to deliver meaningless gestures a year too late. I was worried he had become completely obsolete.
I’ve read articles stating that behind closed doors Bernie is very upset about Israel continuing their genocide.
Maybe he should do something in public.
I was going to say iliterqllyrwad that same article about Biden about once every three days. How behind closed doors he’s really pissed off and just about to actually fixking do something for once.
He reserves his public outbursts for shouting down Palestinian activists.
Who cares?
That’s the joke.
Ah didn’t realize it was a joke
the last i saw from him on this was “let’s be careful about throwing the word ‘genocide’ around” as if this isn’t a genocide. old bro lived on a kibbutz apparently, has a completely warped view of what israel is/“could be”.
he knows this bill isn’t gonna get any votes as well, so i’m 99% certain he’s just playing politics to look like he’s doing something so progressives don’t continue to go after him. either that’s what he’s doing or he’s actually dumb as hell and thinks anyone else is gonna sign off on this (that’s a much more charitable interpretation- he’s dumb, not malicious)
While it’s doubtful the politically split Senate would pass the measures, the move is designed to send a message to the Netanyahu regime
THERE IT IS
“They say an American senator sent a message when selling them weapons”
We’re gonna send a message! And that message is that we’re gonna keep sending you as many weapons as you want! That’ll teach ya!
Not only that, but the idea that the Senate is “politically split” on Israel is laughable.
The only split in the US senate is between the faction that wants to indirectly genocide the Palestinians by aiding the Israel government, and those who want to do it with the US navy parked offshore laying waste to Palestinians directly.
In the entire of the US Congress, across both houses, there’s basically just one genuine anti-zionist and she happens to be the only Palestinian in the whole apparatus.
Meanwhile the netenyahu regime has been loudly broadcasting the message “we literally don’t give one single solitary shit, we’ll live stream ourselves throwing innocent civilians off roofs and storming TV stations to shut down dissenting views and you’ll still give us all your money. We are literally doing the things the bad guys did in cod 4 and yet you’ll still send us a black check every two weeks, thanks for the Healthcare dumbasses. Next week im gonna talk shit about you in your congress again, cuck.”
send a message
Old man shakes fist at cloudOld man shakes fist at genocide
preparing
wake me up when he’s done preparing
“In 12 episodes, when this Janky-Dama is finished Bibi-sama is going to be so owned!”
“No? Oh well…”
In a letter to Senate colleagues on Wednesday, Sanders said the U.S. cannot be “complicit in this humanitarian disaster.”
Liberals should get an electric shock every time they use the phrase “humanitarian disaster”.
(they already have been complicit, for 70 years)
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no more half measures walter
That’ll show them.
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He gets called a “bad jew” pretty consistently by even “progressive” Zionists, despite this long due milquetoast response (that will definitely pass house and senate). >.>
Also I remember a transfemme Zionist who said the right hates her for being trans and the left hates her for being Jewish. She also hated me for wanting to tae away her small business. I need to throw up.
I love how the sentiment “the right hates me for being trans and the left hates me for being Jewish” paints antisemitism as a lefty thing that’s not a common right-wing tendency at all (like how being a transphobe is).
it is amazing how perceptions are so damn malleable. this particular great filter is going to be weird.
K
Kind of like me promising my roommate that i’ll clean the shitter this weekend
The “struggle” continues…just in time for him to make a mealy-mouthed retraction when Palestinian organizations carry out a retaliation on October 7th!
