{"id":25214,"date":"2024-11-21T04:17:03","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T09:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comw.org\/pda\/?p=25214"},"modified":"2024-11-21T04:17:03","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T09:17:03","slug":"senate-rejects-sanders-bid-to-halt-arms-to-israel-over-gaza-atrocities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comw.org\/pda\/senate-rejects-sanders-bid-to-halt-arms-to-israel-over-gaza-atrocities\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Rejects Sanders&#8217; Bid to Halt Arms to Israel Over Gaza Atrocities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-25212\" src=\"https:\/\/comw.org\/pda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/darkened-capital.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/comw.org\/pda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/darkened-capital.jpg 201w, https:\/\/comw.org\/pda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/darkened-capital-80x100.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/>The three relevant resolutions were defeated 18-79, 19-78, and 17-80. All of those voting in support were Democrats. (Republican Sens. Mike Braun and JD Vance, the vice-president-elect, did not vote.)<\/p>\n<p>The vote is at odds with US public sentiment. As Sanders pointed out \u201cpoll after poll shows that a strong majority of the American people oppose sending more weapons and military aid to fund Netanyahu&#8217;s war machine.\u201d Also, &#8220;According to a poll commissioned by J Street&#8230; 62% of Jewish Americans support withholding weapons shipments to Israel until Netanyahu agrees to an immediate cease-fire.&#8221; But the leadership of both US parties still embrace out of fear or commitment a 9\/11 frame for guiding policy on the Israel-Gaza war.<\/p>\n<p>In this frame, Israeli efforts to destroy Hamas &#8211; a militant Islamic organization guilty of war crimes &#8211; justify much greater IDF war crimes. Current estimates are that direct and indirect war deaths in Gaza may surpass 180,000. What seems obvious to much of the world &#8211; that Netanyahu is actually pursuing ethnic cleansing, which is a genocidal objective &#8211; hardly registers among US Democratic and GOP leadership. Common Dreams, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/bernie-sanders-on-israel\">Senate Rejects Sanders&#8217; Bid<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The three relevant resolutions were defeated 18-79, 19-78, and 17-80. All of those voting in support were Democrats. (Republican Sens. Mike Braun and JD Vance, the vice-president-elect, did not vote.) 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