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Uncle Joe

(63,187 posts)
Thu Jul 31, 2025, 09:52 AM Jul 31

Record number of Senate Democrats vote to block weapon sales for Israel

A record number of Senate Democrats, more than half the caucus, voted in favor of two resolutions to block U.S. military sales to Israel on Wednesday night.

While the resolutions ultimately failed, the vote demonstrated how Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has fractured historically bipartisan support in Congress over the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip in Israel’s war against Hamas.

The resolutions, sponsored by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt), failed in the face of all Republicans voting against the measure and 20 Democrats.

Senators voted 27-70, defeating Sanders’s resolution, which sought to block more than $675 million in weapons sales to Israel.

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https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5429072-sanders-resolution-fails-israel-military/

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LymphocyteLover

(8,762 posts)
1. progress for sure but we need to do more to stop the ongoing crisis (of course ultimately Dump and the GOP are to blame)
Thu Jul 31, 2025, 02:57 PM
Jul 31

cliffside

(1,336 posts)
3. Kick, Sanders has been on the correct side of this issue for a long time, in addition to calling out the control
Thu Jul 31, 2025, 09:40 PM
Jul 31

by billionaires.

But he is not a Dem.

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