Since the start of President Donald Trump’s second term, his administration has approved around $12 billion in arms sales to Israel and lifted a Biden-era block on the delivery of 2,000-pound bombs that Israeli forces have used to commit atrocities against Palestinians.
Earlier this year, Sanders led an unsuccessful effort to block the Trump administration’s sale of nearly $9 billion in weapons to the Israeli government. Just 14 senators, all Democrats, backed the resolutions.
But there are some indications that support for blocking arms sales could grow as the starvation crisis that Israel has imposed on Gaza intensifies. Sen. Angus King (I-Maine), who did not support the resolutions Sanders tried to pass in April, said earlier this week that he would vote for “an end to any United States support whatsoever” for Israel “until there is a demonstrable change in the direction of Israeli policy.”
What’s the context for this?
https://lemmy.world/post/33388267
AOC still parroting the dipshit position about defensive weapons. She had the opportunity to stand with other squad members and she toed the pro genocide line.
Is she on AIPAC payroll… She must know her base ain’t down to genocide
This doesnt make any sense
Her justification for voting to send weapons to Israel:
Its just a real, real shitty look on the part of AOC, especially considering far more vulnerable squad members voted for it.
Yeah her reasoning is: fuck off pleb
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I think she was all like ‘we must keep giving them defensive weapons so that they cannot be held accountable for their actions by any of their victims but not the mean scary offensive weapons because that might help them kill their victims faster’.
Just ShitLib Things.