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Senate votes against Sanders resolution to force human rights scrutiny over Israel aid
(www.theguardian.com)
Unsurprising. Thank you, Bernie, for trying.
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Every time America is about to/in the process of making a mistake there's a video of Bernie Sanders warning everyone not to do it.
Our very own Cassandra of Troy.
Sanders is proof the US is working on a rigged system
he has had the people's interest at heart since he first started his political career in the 60s and not just the US citizens
He will inspire a group of young people that will actually make the change when boomers die. So there's that.
The two party thing has been going for 150 years. The top will not ever allow change in the regime.
Sanders almost won in 2016 but the DNC actively conspired against him to run Hillary. The Democrats will rather lose than allow the system to change.
The Democrats will rather lose than allow the system to change.
Prescient. I don’t think many centrist have realized that yet.
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Fuck everyone that continues to support this genocide.
Important to note that this is a motion to table - so the "Yea" vote means they disagree with Bernie's resolution.
39 Democrat senators (40 if you count Sinema) and 32 Republican senators.
I'd also like to remind people that 44 Democrats and 36 Republican senators voted to block the rail strike.
Procorporate trash. All of them. Fuck Joe Biden.
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The measure was a first-of-its-kind tapping into a decades-old law that would require the US state department to, within 30 days, produce a report on whether the Israeli war effort in Gaza is violating human rights and international accords. If the administration failed to do so, US military aid to Israel, long assured without question, could be quickly halted.
Those senators must be pretty confident that a report would find human rights violations. Why would they oppose it otherwise?
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if only democrats actually stood for what they say they stand for
we could of had eight years of bernie instead of eight years of further decline with trump and biden
if you think israel didn't do anything wrong, why oppose an investigation?
(also milosevic did the same thing in the 90s and was prosecuted for it by the icc - the us supported that then)
Serbia bad, Israel good. Realpolitik
Problem is is that Serbia wasn't a nuclear power. That's the thing about prosecuting war criminals, they can't have a nuke that's tied to their vital signs.
During the Sheikh Jarrah incident I contacted everyone who politically represents me and told them to re-evaluate how freely they fund Isreal, they all gave me lots of lip service telling me they will consider it when opportunities arise and every last one of them voted against this. I don't think I've ever in my life been accurately represented politically on a federal level, and the only reason that's not true locally is because I've testified to local government committees on things that actually made it to the state house floor.
I wish I could give you a hug. It's so useful to have your voice on this (and I assume other progressive matters?). There are many of us who feel the same way, and some of us are trying to regain our strength to try to improve the world again. Thanks.
Thank you. It's tough to fight being disheartened when you constantly feel looked over, or like some politicians margin of error. They act like they'd rather lose my vote then consider my prerogatives.
Sigh, the US government never fails to disappoint.
This is the stupidest timeline.
Why?
Geopolitics overrides morality.
Concise and efficient, I like your answer.
as is tradit
The republicans voted against it because it's from him, and the democrats voted against it because they're courting the right.
BoTh SiDeS¿
Warren also voted with Sanders.
I'm supposed to believe the Dems that voted against this also care about saving democracy? They don't even care about basic human rights. We're going full speed into the worst timeline.
It sometimes feels like Bernie Sanders is the only American leader with an actual heart.
I knew he was "my guy" when I finally realized who he was in 2016. There was a time I watched a lot of documentaries, and every time this scraggly haired old dude was shown in some random clip of Congress doing their thing in relation to the documentary, he was always on the right side of the argument. So I see Bernie Sanders running and I said "oh shit, it's that guy!"
No wonder the media demonizes him...
What did anyone expect? Both sides take military industrial complex money
Don't think the MIC is the deciding factor here, nor that the MIC particularly cares whether aid is attached to human rights scrutiny.
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Proud of my Senator, Martin Heinrich. He did the right thing today.
Is this an active coup that’s been playing out since 60s or when ever this shadowy government does? Is this the same thing like how one president get 1 free murder, no questions asked but like on large scales?
Now there's two fascist parties...
Always have been
This is the best summary I could come up with:
US senators have defeated a measure, introduced by Bernie Sanders, that would have made military aid to Israel conditional on whether the Israeli government is violating human rights and international accords in its devastating war in Gaza.
“We must ensure that US aid is being used in accordance with human rights and our own laws,” Sanders said in a speech before the vote urging support for the resolution, lamenting what he described as the Senate’s failure to consider any measure looking at the war’s effect on civilians.
Sanders wrote on Twitter/X that his resolution directed the state department “to report on any human rights violations that may have occurred using US equipment in the Israeli military campaign in Gaza”, adding: “It should not be controversial to ask how US weapons are used.”
It would have forced the state department to provide a report within 30 days – and aid to Israel would be cut off if human rights violations were found.
Amid anti-war protests across the US, progressive representatives including Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, Barbara Lee and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have called for a ceasefire.
Speaking from the Republican side before the measure was introduced on Tuesday evening, South Carolina senator Lindsay Graham said that Hamas, the Islamist group, has “militarized” schools and hospitals in the territory by operating amongst them.
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