Quokk.au24 Senators Vote for Sanders Resolution to Stop Bombs Sale to Israel
PhilipTheBucket
truthout.org/articles/24-senators-vote-for-sand…
Roughly half of the Democratic caucus in the Senate voted for Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vermont) resolutions to block the transfer of tens of thousands of bombs and assault rifles to Israel on Wednesday, signalling a small shift among lawmakers as Israel’s famine campaign in Gaza has reached new, catastrophic lows in recent days. On Wednesday evening, 24 senators voted for Sanders’s resolution…
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Article highlights the ones who publicly say they're against genocide, but vote for it:
However, the number of “yes” votes is far fewer than the number of Senate Democrats who signed a letter to the Trump administration this week that urges officials to alleviate the starvation catastrophe in Gaza. The letter, signed by 40 senators, expresses alarm over starvation deaths and the “acute humanitarian crisis” in Gaza.
And yet, numerous senators who signed the letter, sent Tuesday, went on to vote “no” on action that would pressure Israel to end its near-total humanitarian aid blockade. This is despite the enormous leverage the U.S. holds over Israel as its largest foreign supplier of weapons.
Those who signed the letter but went on to vote “no” on both resolutions or who were absent included:
Senators Michael Bennet (Colorado), Richard Blumenthal (Connecticut), Cory Booker (New Jersey), Maria Cantwell (Washington), Catherine Cortez-Masto (Nevada), Chris Coons (Delaware), Ruben Gallego (Arizona), Kirsten Gillibrand (New York), Maggie Hassan (New Hampshire), John Hickenlooper (Colorado), Mark Kelly (Arizona), Alex Padilla (California), Gary Peters (Michigan), Jacky Rosen (Nevada), Adam Schiff (California), Schumer, Slotkin, Mark Warner (Virginia), and Ron Wyden (Oregon).
Jo Miran
It's beyond disgusting when Ronald-POS-Reagan was tougher on Israel than modern Democrats. Talk about the weakest, kowtowed, most feckless politicians.
I have a new addition for !bullshit_narratives@quokk.au, I have not time right now but later on.
Short answer: Reagan paused weapons shipments because Israel bombed our friend and ally Iraq. He didn't give a shit about the Palestinians. Biden paused weapons shipments because they were killing Palestinians (the first US president to do so as far as I know, along with the first president to put sanctions on settlers, as well as he tried to directly have US forces involved in giving humanitarian aid instead of having them helping shoot Palestinians who are trying to get aid as Trump is currently doing, and so on.)
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/pausing-military-aid-key-tool-presidents-foreign-policy/story?id=110117137
Was what Biden did good? Absolutely fucking not, if the systems of international law were functioning at all he'd be an accessory to crimes against humanity. I generally like Biden but his support for Israel is pretty much the one thing that there's absolutely no excuse for. But, the whole narrative that he's somehow worse than other US presidents is pure la-la land fantasy. Glad to have you with us, Chomsky's been talking about this since the 80s and it's never changed.
Just stick to reality, there are mountains of ways to criticize Biden over Gaza that are 100% accurate and objective.
I never said Reagan was more pro-Palestinian, tyvm, I said he was tougher on Israel, which he was.
Biden paused a single weapon shipment, which he later unpaused, not all weapon shipments.
And my comment was referring to the current Democrats in Congress, which this article is about, failing to even symbolically vote as a group to hold Israel accountable, not talking about Biden.
But sure, go off.
Oh. Yeah, that I'll 100% agree with you on. They garbage, for the most part.