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Senate Rejects Sanders-led Effort to Block Arms Sales to Israel (zeteo.com)

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

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[–] Keeponstalin 36 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

"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

[–] whostosay 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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.