U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders said Monday that he would put forth an amendment to remove offensive military funding for Israel from a House-passed aid package that the Senate is set to consider this week.
The amendment would “cut billions in offensive military funding to Israel from the proposed national security supplemental package,” Sanders (I-Vt.) said in a statement. The package, approved by the Republican-controlled House over the weekend, includes $17 billion in unconditional military assistance to the Israeli government, which stands accused on the world stage of perpetrating genocide in Gaza.
The senator said he would also offer an amendment to “protect essential humanitarian operations” in the Gaza Strip, where millions of people are facing the possibility of starvation due to Israel’s suffocating and illegal blockade. At least 28 children under the age of 12 have starved to death in Gaza in recent weeks.
Sanders said Monday that the Senate “should have a chance to debate and vote on the key components of such a massive package.”
“In poll after poll, Americans have showed their increasing disgust for [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu’s war machine and the humanitarian disaster it has caused in Gaza,” the senator added. “Enough is enough. We cannot continue to fund this horrific war.”
Bernie Sanders wants to make clear that he strongly supports dumping another $61 billion into Ukraine, and he strongly supports funding SOME weapons systems for Israel, but not others. So, he opposes roughly $9 billion out of the $95 billion war bill. That's his big, bold stance
I don’t understand the left being in favor of Ukraine aid when the whole thing favors the military industrial complex which they pretend to hate and leads to more Ukrainian death as well as bringing us close to WW3. Both left for Ukraine aid and right for Israel aid are idiots
Today he says this, tomorrow he says please vote for Joe Biden.
@D3fenceBertieGreen1wk1W
Exactly. This is just for show or leverage.
No it’s policies seeing implementation.
@D3fenceBertieGreen1wk1W
Leftist Bernie has a habit of calling for a strong policy, then sacrificing it on the altar of political expediency "for the sake of assuring Biden's re-election".
@ISIDEWITH1wk1W
How do you feel about using taxpayer money to fund military actions in other countries?
@9LR5DLC1wk1W
We should only fund wars if it’s a direct threat to the U.S. or democracy.
@9LRB7RLProgressive1wk1W
We should focus on funding our country not other countries.
@9LRB8K9Independent 1wk1W
None of these are good responses as they all lack the understanding that Israel is actively committing genocide against the Palestinian people. Hamas is a "terrorist" organization, yes, but that's because Palestinians have been subjected to discrimination for decades from Israel. Israel has killed many more innocent people than Hamas has kidnapped. I agree with Sanders. Israel has enough money. (Plus, thinking that pro-Palestinians are antisemite is so wrong, no we just don't want to be complicit in an active genocide.)
@DirectLemurDemocrat1wk1W
It’s simple: if he puts pressure Hamas to release the hostages and surrender, the war would be over. Instead, they empower them. Really sickening.
He should do the same for Ukraine.
Or is that a war you are cool with continuing funding to send more young men to die?
He is a disgrace to the Jewish people.
@ISIDEWITH1wk1W
@ISIDEWITH1wk1W
Where should the line be drawn between supporting an ally and condoning their actions?
@9LRBHCQ1wk1W
Yes because if we know they are in the wrong we cant really help them because if we do than we are getting involved in a war were America is going to be the villain.
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