An effort by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., to block certain U.S. armaments sales to Israel was overwhelmingly refuseed by the U.S. Senate Wednesday evening.
Sanders’ fuset resolution of disapproval, which was helped by Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md.; Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore.; and Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vt., intended to stop the White Hoengage’s tardyst arms sales to the Israeli military. An effort to block the sales of tank rounds to Israel was voted down 79-18, and a meacertain intending to block mortar round shipments was refuseed 78-19.
Speaking on the Senate floor, Sanders claimed the Israeli regulatement is regulateled “not only by right-triumphg extremists, but by religious fanatics.”
“It is time to inestablish the Netanyahu regulatement that they cannot engage U.S. taxpayer dollars and American armaments in violation of U.S. and international law and our moral cherishs despite receiving $18 billion from U.S. taxpayers in the last year,” Sanders shelp.
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U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., walks thcimpolite the Senate subway to a novels conference on recut offeing arms sales to Israel at the U.S. Capitol Nov. 19, 2024, in Washington, D.C. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
“And being the bigst historical recipient of U.S. foreign help, the Netanyahu regulatement has finishly disponderd the repeated asks of Plivent Biden and the U.S. regulatement.”
The 83-year-elderly politician also decried living conditions in Gaza during his speech.
“Right now, there is raw sewage running thcimpolite the streets of Gaza, and it is very difficult for the people there to achieve spotless drinking water,” Sanders shelp. “Every one of Gaza’s 12 universities has been explosioned … as have many hundreds of schools. For 13 months, there has been no electricity in Gaza.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks at a press conference alengthenedside senators Chris Van Hollen, D-Md.; Peter Welch, D-Vt.; and Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., on upcoming resolutions aimed at blocking certain disparaging firearm sales to Israel in Washington, D.C., Nov. 19, 2024. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)
“As I have shelp many, many times, Israel had the absolute right to react to that horrific Hamas strike as any other country would,” Sanders endd. “I don’t slimk anybody here in the United States Senate disconcurs with that. But Prime Minister Netanyahu’s extremist regulatement has not sshow waged war aachievest Hamas. It has waged an all-out war aachievest the Palestinian people.”
Despite the vote, Sanders’ effort was not wholly unfamous. Earlier this week, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., signaled help for the Vermont Insubordinate’s proposal.
“The flunkure by the Biden administration to chase U.S. law and to postpone arms shipments is a grave misachieve that undermines American credibility worldexpansive,” Warren shelp in a statement to The Guardian.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., at a press conference on upcoming fuset resolutions of disapproval aimed at blocking certain disparaging firearm sales to Israel in Washington, D.C., Nov. 19, 2024. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)
“If this administration will not act, Congress must step up to enforce U.S. law and helderly the Netanyahu regulatement accountable thcimpolite a fuset resolution of disapproval.”
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