The Senate on Wednesday rejected three resolutions aimed at limiting the sale of offensive arms to Israel, underscoring growing dissent within the Democratic Party over the Biden administration’s support for Israel during its war against Hamas in Gaza. Nineteen senators – all Democrats – supported the measures, a notable increase from the eleven who backed a similar initiative in January.
The resolutions, introduced by Senator Bernie Sanders and co-sponsored by Senators Peter Welch and Jeff Merkley, sought to block future transfers of tank rounds, mortar rounds, and Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAMs) to Israel.
Sanders argued that Israel’s actions in Gaza violate international human rights laws. “Because of its immoral actions, Israel is less secure and increasingly isolated,” Sanders wrote in a Washington Post op-ed. He called for the U.S. to end its complicity in what he described as atrocities in Gaza.
However, senior Democrats, including Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chair Ben Cardin, opposed the resolutions. Cardin argued that limiting arms sales to Israel would weaken its ability to defend itself against threats from Hamas and Iran. “Our support for Israel does not diminish our commitment to humanitarian assistance for innocent Palestinians or our shared pursuit of peace,” Cardin said.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer also opposed the measures, warning they could embolden Hamas and Iran. “Our security assistance to Israel transcends any one prime minister or any one government,” Schumer said on the Senate floor.
However, Schumer did not whip against approving the resolutions, meaning that he did not push for Democrats to vote them down – another stunning betrayal of the Jewish State on the part of the former “Shomer Yisroel” and now “Shomer Yishmoel.”
The resolutions’ defeat comes as President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office in January, with expectations that his administration will take a more unreservedly pro-Israel stance.
Wednesday’s Senate vote followed a U.S. veto at the United Nations Security Council against a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, over the resolution’s failure to demand the release of hostages.
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Can we get the 19 names?
Or did your anonymous and invisible “rabbonim” advise you that its lashon hara??
YWN said:
“19 Senate Democrats Vote To Block Offensive Arms Sales To Israel In Failed Attempt To Hurt Jewish State”
MY RESPONSE:
Save this article under “Why Jews are quitting the Democrat Party”.
It’s not the Jewish state. It’s a state with many Jews living in it. And this state is slaughtering people and getting soldiers killed. It doesn’t need to bomb anymore.
Some people are Jews first, Americans second. Some are Americans first and Jews second. Then there’s people like Sanders who are Communists first and then Token Jews. When you care more about your enemy than your brother, you are evil and corrupt!
Why does Israel let the US get away with this narrative that the US is the one holding the high moral ground and making sure that nothing ‘immoral’ happens?? That is the biggest perversion here – this evil fabrication that Israel is dependent on the US (or the whole wider world) in order to maintain its morality
Israel is the one TEACHING morality to the world, not the other way around!!
A message to all chevra kadishas/funeral homes/funeral directors:
This Sanders should not be buried in a Jewish cemetery. Rather he rot as dung on a hill than to be buried with Klal Yisroel. This rasha must be ostracized both in life and in death.
JDAMs. Sens. Martin Heinrich (D-NM), Mazie Hirono (D-HI), Tim Kaine (D-VA), Angus King (I-ME), Ed Markey (D-MA), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Brian Schatz (D-HI), Tina Smith (D-MN), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Peter Welch (D-VT), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ben Ray Lujan (D-NM), Rafael Warnock (D-GA) and Chris Murphy (D-CT) voted in favor of all three resolutions. Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) voted in favor of two, regarding the tank rounds and mortar shells, but against the resolution on guidance kits for bombs, known as joint direct attack munitions or JDAMs. Appointed Sen. George Helmy (D-NJ) voted in favor of the resolution on the mortar shells, but against the other two. Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), who just won a close reelection contest, voted present on all three.
They are for the other team? Is it shameful for a Yankees fan to boo the Dodgers or the Mets?
This is a problem only for those who are in denial that a large part of the Democratic party are part of the other team (and unfortunately, baseball is only a game, whereas this is about life and death), and so the pro-death (specifically “our deaths) team is expected to cheer their players on. From our perspective it is life threatening, but it isn’t shameful. Evil perhaps, but “shame” is quite the word for it.