Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., announced Wednesday that they are introducing a House resolution to block a $735 Million arms sale to Israel.
“For decades, the U.S. has sold billions of dollars in weaponry to Israel without ever requiring them to respect basic Palestinian rights. In so doing, we have directly contributed to the death, displacement and disenfranchisement of millions,” Ocasio-Cortez said in a statement Wednesday.
“At a time when so many, including President Biden, support a ceasefire, we should not be sending ‘direct attack’ weaponry to [Israeli] Prime Minister Netanyahu to prolong this violence.”
Tlaib, who is of Palestinian descent and has family in the region, said in her own statement, “Approving this sale now, while failing to even try to use it as leverage for a ceasefire, sends a clear message to the world — the U.S. is not interested in peace, and does not care about the human rights and lives of Palestinians.”
According to the Post report, most of the sale was of “Joint Direct Attack Munitions, or JDAMs — kits that transform so-called ‘dumb’ bombs into precision-guided missiles.” The resolution is also being introduced by Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Wis., former co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. It has six additional sponsors, all Democrats.
(Source: Yahoo News)
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she has the IQ of a potato 😎
YWN, your headline to this story implies that AOC is not an antisemite. Care to defend that proposition?
Let them keep barking no one‘s listening to them!!!
Why does the headline absolve AOC of anti-Semitism? It should read “anti-Semites AOC and Tlaib”.
What will Schumer do?
Precision weappns protect the innocent.
She certainly has a dislike and hatred towards the State of Israel. How did YWN determine that she’s an anti-Semite? Does she hate the Jews from Flatbush and Five Towns or Boro Park?
AOC.Antisemite On Crack.
Please recall how A O Cortez bowed out from attending the Itzhak Rabin memorial at the behest of BDS.
You need to add the title “Anti-Semite” to AOC’s name as well. Anyone who grossly and absurdly twists facts into fiction regarding Israel as she viciously does as a full-time agenda HAS to be Anti-Semitic!
The headline should have read Anti-semites AOC and Tlaib.
vshem reshaim yirkav
With good old Bernie nebech…
Just when the embattled david (humane army who does so much not to hit at civilians) vs Goliath (who exploits IDF by its double crime of using its own people to hit at Istaeli civilians) needs it most
It’s incredible after all the Jews have done for NYC, that an open antisemite is a Congressman from NYC. Jewish history is so strange. How the Jews allow themselves to completely fall back to zero over and over.
How is she an antisemite?