The Senate on Tuesday night voted down a resolution introduced by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) that would have frozen US military aid to Israel if the State Department failed to produce a report on whether Israel was committing human rights violations in Gaza.
Under the resolution, which invokes the 1961 Foreign Assistance Act, aid would have also been frozen if human rights violations were found. The legislation failed in a vote of 72-11, with one Republican, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), nine Democrats, and Sanders supporting the oversight of Israel’s mass killing of Palestinians with US weapons.
“It should not be controversial to ask how US weapons are used,” Sanders wrote on X before the vote. “We should all want this information. If you believe the war has been indiscriminate, as I do, then we must ask this question. If you believe Israel has done nothing wrong, then this information should support that belief.”
During a speech on the Senate floor last week, Sanders said that due to the “scale of the destruction, and the extensive use of US arms in this campaign, including thousands of massive 2,000-pound bombs, Congress must act to conduct real oversight.”
The White House came out against the resolution ahead of the vote as it supports unconditional aid to Israel despite the massive civilian death toll in Gaza. “We do not believe that this resolution is the right vehicle to address these issues,” said National Security Council spokesman John Kirby, who has repeatedly shrugged off Israel’s killing of civilians.
No one has offered a reasonable alternative as to what alternative course Israel could take,save for hunting down Hamas.
How about a ceasefire, stop treating Palestinians like garbage, and start giving them equal rights?
That requires a brain, people with brain are in very short supply.
They have brains. They know what they are doing, and they are purposeful.
You are right, they have enough brain to know who pays them and tells them what they have to do, and no moral compass to confuse them.
And that would stop Hamas how?
Hamas is a scapegoat to keep up the genocide, and nothing more. Hamas is a non-factor here, and they will never be beaten by the likes of the IDF, or the state of Israel.
I guess you missed the part where Hamas started the battle by attacking Israel.
While I do not condone some of Hamas actions, Israel has been the illegal occupier and main culprit in this tragedy. Furthermore the IDF were responsible for murdering many Israeli’s on October 7th via Israel’s Hannibal Doctrine.
What occupiers-Gaza had no Israeli soldiers there for decades.
You just keep repeating the same distorted bullshit over and over. Israel controlled everything that went in or out. And you fucking know this.
Guess you missed a century of land grabbing murderous fraudsters laying the ground work for the current genocide.
Sit down!
I guess you missed decades of killing and abuse before 10/7. The world starts when you object to payback in kind (yes, in kind)? No.
Yes, Hamas was firing rockets at Israel and trying kill their citizens before 10.7.
Any rocket fire was a response to the systematic state sponsored terrorism and murder employed by the Israeli’s on a daily basis in both Gaza and the West Bank.
The Palestinians have a right to resist.
You cease to be a civilian when you’re part of an occupation.
So it is OK to kill civilians if they are citizens of Israel. If you believe that than don’t complain when the reverse action happens.
They aren’t civilians, they’re part of an occupation and thus fair game.
Show up on my property uninvited and I’ll show you how that works.
Interesting …. you just mused a notional death sentence on every citizen of Russia.
You’re warped.
Israel left Gaza many years ago-Hamas continued to sporadically fire rockets at Israel.
Right. And when they left, they made it an outdoor prison. Completely controlling what went in or out.
This Hamas? Per the NY Times:
“Just weeks before Hamas launched the deadly Oct. 7 attacks on Israel, the head of Mossad arrived in Doha, Qatar, for a meeting with Qatari officials.
For years, the Qatari government had been sending millions of dollars a month into the Gaza Strip—money that helped prop up the Hamas government there. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel not only tolerated those payments, he had encouraged them.”
Hell the Zios funded Hamas from it’s inception..
Guess they never read Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein – and if they did they didn’t read it to the end.
how about releasing all the hostages-stat.
Ending illegal settlements, prosecuting settlers that murdered Palestinians in the west bank, prosecute Netanyahu, tear down the wall, bring un peacekeeping troops to transition israels withdrawal from stolen lands, israel pays reperations for stolen lands, all good starting places. Israel will never, ever be at peace until they right their wrongs. A genocide will fix nothing and only makes it worse, for all of us. We are only days away from this b.s. spiraling into ww3, fir what? Cause zionist are gods chosen ones…fuck them and their murdering ways. People can live together like the past. I know, you support the genoocide because hamas is bad, kill all Palestinians, thats what i see coming from you on here. Justifying murder.
THAT REQUIRES COMMON SENSE and character and integrity. We don’t have it, our leaders are corrupt and morally and intellectually bankrupt. there a some exceptions, but not enough.
It would appear that our leerless feeders are more comfortable with their perks, cigar and booze “caucuses”, than doing their job. Taking care of their constituents.
IDF filmed using human shields
https://m.youtube.com/watch?si=kT93XPiwQdpNQBka&v=8gtyVyYr5_w&feature=youtu.be
They must have learned from Hamas.
Good one. Once again not denying Israel’s behavior, just justifying it by comparing it to others. And comparing Israel to a group who are continuously labeled as terrorists is hardly something you should be using as an argument to defend Israel. And you do so continuously.
In modern usage, the word “terrorist” was popularized as a self-appellation by the pre-Israeli Zionist Irgun/Stern Gang. It didn’t become a bad thing until it started happening to them.
Outstanding writing it about what must be done by for peace in the world.Getting Israel in to give up it’s illbegotten gains won’t happen
Or not dropping 2000 lb. “dumb” bombs in densely populated areas. Not bombing the south when you told people to evacuate there. Not destroying the medical system. Not limiting the amount of humanitarian aid to get in to the point where people are forced to hunt for cats for food. I mean I could go on and on, but that asshole will just ignore it and blurt out how genocide is fine with him.
No matter of what you believe this action by Israel and the US is a violation of decency and the human spirit as well as opposite of all of religious teaching including the Torah.
And I have said to you repeatedly-give me your solution that would allow for both sides you survive in peace and dignity-and you never answer.
I just did numbnuts. Part of living in peace is to NOT do the things I listed. Attempting a genocide isn’t a starting point for both sides to live in peace and dignity. You’re disgusting.
Before there was a wall-West Bank Palestinians murdered Israelis-now with a wall,much less murders.Do you keep your own door locked?your property fenced? Spare us your “gods chosen shit”.
They aren’t just hunting down Hamas. They are using the moment as an excuse to commit a long desired genocide. The day the hostages return home is the day they lose the excuse which is why they won’t be home any time soon.
Exactly-so if Hamas was sane- and humane-they would release ALL hostages stat,sparing both peoples a great deal of pain.
Except they aren’t hunting down Hamas. They’re bombing Gaza into oblivion in order the ethnically cleanse the area of Palestinians. https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2023-11-05/ty-article-opinion/.premium/israels-govt-tender-souls-who-call-for-an-ethnic-cleansing-in-gaza/0000018b-9c0e-db71-a7df-fdcfbde20000
Hamas hides among Gazans-Gazans are suffering.After the Oct 7 atrocity-what do you expect people to do-turn the other cheek?Or just lie down and take it-Those days are gone.
Hamas are freedom fighters. The ones that should be hunted down are the terrorist IDF.
This post from Scheerpost is quite revealing. An interview of the son of a former IDF general, by Chris Hedges: https://scheerpost.com/2024/01/15/the-idfs-war-crimes-are-a-perfect-reflection-of-israeli-society/
Freedom fighters??? How is killing teenagers at a dance party a blow for freedom?
That was awful. But then the IDF going all out Hanibal Directive and killing all the rest of them it could see was also awful. It now appears that more Israeli babies and party-goers were killed by the IDF than by Hamas.
Nope. That just a dream make up by Hamas supporters.
How come the dance party was close to the Gaza Border (moved there shortly before the event) when the vaunted IDF was sleeping or gone?
Or why the IDF didn’t give the festival organizer a heads up about the warnings of an impending attack the IDF had received.
So give back your home to Native Americans or Mexicans who resent the annexation of the American Southwest. So a bunch of baby killers,rapists,sex slavers,and mutilators are fighting for freedom? So let us leave all our violent felons of jail immediately to kill US citizens in their beds.
So, genocide it is. Right moron?
Jake, Tim Burns, and Don Julio are one and the same.
We do represent the view point that USA, Israel and Ukraine are not the bad guys.
You are wrong. They ARE the bad guys. Even you would say so if Trump was doing what Biden is now doing.
No I would not.
To the point of absurdity.
Three heads and no brain.
When did you get two more heads.
I* was speaking about you three idiotic morons
Use the vaunted Mossad for that, and the alternative is to not commit genocide by killing anything that moves in Gaza.
Your comment reflects what the Wermacht would have said in 1943 Warsaw when the occupants of that ghetto revolted.
You must know them very intimately. Only the Germans went to Poland to kill Jews and Slavs. The Warsaw Ghetto occupants did not go to Germany. When war devolves into hauling off women into sexual captivity, tying up families with wire,cutting off fingers,dousing with gasline burning people alive,the niceties end, and gloves come off.
Should Read”
“Israel Senate Votes Down Bernie Sanders Resolution to Probe Israel’s Gaza Slaughter”
We have failed government. For decades nothing has been accomplished, not in domestic policies nor foreign policies. We have many lost wars lasting over decades, we have added new ones as soon as one war ended, see Afghanistan and the new Ukraine disaster and Biden is doing all he can to get another war going against Iran or China, or both. The nation is in a mess. Biden is a bully, he turned allies into enemies.
We need common sense government, we can’t even get that. Common sense would have avoided the war in Ukraine, would have stopped the slaughter long ago, would not fund and support the massacre of the people in Gaza. All we need is people with character and just COMMON SENSE.
Unfortunately we have an oligarchy by, for, and of a handful of billionaires. And by that metric, the federal government is a great success!
Yes, they are shaking hands and dinners in Davos like every January.
President Jimmy Carter said as much. Flat out called the true leadership in the U.S. of Atrocities as being the rich and powerful. Kick in AIPAC, and its influence and we are pretty screwed.
Take a look who paid for Jimbos Presidntiallibrary.
Not available in American politics
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Wouldn’t have expected anything else than another de facto admission of guilt. They just concurred in effect and more clearly than perhaps they would have wished with the merits they previously denied existed of the genocide case and that Sie haben es gewusst.
The roll call of our largely criminally insane reps can be found here…
https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1182/vote_118_2_00008.htm
They. Don’t. Care. And they do not give a shit what you or I think.
Lol, the West wasn’t listening, their biggest problem, as hundreds of thousands of Yemenis in their capital, Sanaa, chanted “We don’t care, make it a world war” after US bombing. The poorest country in MENA is the wealthiest in courage, and heart.
It doesn’t make a difference. Probes for Israel or Ukraine are not likely to find the truth and even if they did, we wouldn’t know how to handle the truth.
I agree, I don’t expect it to be perceived to be the trouble with these sort of investigations. They’re probably to be conducted by the sort of reliable true believers who’d still find conclusive evidence for the existence of hidden Iraqi WMD today. The conclusion to reach is that there’s no wrongdoing of any kind by anyone involved except Palestinians and the worldwide infestation of anti-Semitic filth perceiving them to be human, the IDF is the most moral army in the world, there are no civilian casulaties at all, only Hamas was targeted, and because they use babies as human shields the US should probably exercise much less restraint in aiding Israel wipe the seed of Amalek and slaughter all of those human animals once and for all.
But the very notion of a need to probe tends to make the lies the tiniest little less tenable for public consumption because of the very notion that there are uncertainties to conduct some investigation about. It could complicate the life of legacy media accomplished journalists with the nauseating necessity to deal with disonances in their ongoing narrative management efforts.
They’ll just tell us “the truth is anti-Semitic” and fire anyone who speaks it
That had a zero chance of passing. Just a feel good move.
It was important to force them to name themselves. It was therefore important that our media carefully hid their names. They hide in shame. Like those who in 1934 supported Hitler.
There was no reason to expect more from our honorable elected officials. They have an obligation to serve their pay masters, that is well known, they must go through the motions to do their job.
So then what is the proper vehicle John Kirby? How to you consider yourself an enforcer of international law when you don’t abide by it yourself. As momma used to say, don’t throw stones from a glass house.
The Republicans are Evangelical Christians, those siding with the slaughtering of Palestinians, including Trump. Please do NOT vote for these MONSTERS, who are making Americans War Criminals. The UN has been dysfunctional for a long time and I am hoping that they find Israel GUILTY of Genocide, to save themselves and the rest of us. When Americans start to be charged with War Crimes, starting with Biden, his Administration and the majority of Congress, then they will have to investigate, in trying to defend their actions. There is no defense, so hopefully they will all end up in jail. Besides War Crimes, Congress does not abide by our Constitution, their allegiance is NOT to America, they should be charged with Treason. This Congress is failing on every level, the 99% need to be voted OUT.
Many Republicans (and many Democrats, independents, and third party voters) are evangelical Christians.
Many Republicans (and many Democrats, independents, and third party voters) aren’t.
And there are many different kinds of evangelical Christians.
Starting in the 1970s, a particular wing of evangelical Christianity started forming the GOP “base,” but they’re starting to lose the outsize influence they held through 2012. The Trump nomination/presidency cost the GOP at least SOME of that support, and the overturning of Roe v. Wade reduced its enthusiasm (they got what they came for, so they’re not as motivated).
Never mind that Sanders was virtue-signaling to his base because the Dems know they’ve lost the youth vote, the fact that the Senate cannot even bring itself to demand accountability — which would benefit the American people, you know, the ones who actually vote — speaks volumes about the priorities of the US government. With the establishment Dems and Republicans, it’s Israel first; Ukraine second; illegal immigrants third; and Americans? Somewhere down the line.
This was nothing but bullshit theater.
1. The SA government already made a solid case about war crimes and genocide to which Blinken (the State Dept) responded to as “meritless”. Does anyone truly believe that they would hereafter craft a report calling or describing anything remotely resembling “war crimes” or genocide, that would stop shipment of arms?
2. Sanders knows Biden is losing. He is the sheepdog to pull voters, especially “ progressives” back into the Democratic party with smoke and mirrors of “hope” because, “See, some of us are trying and you just have to vote harder for more of us”. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Why doesn‘t he read the full SA case aloud? He had to be pushed toward a cease fire, he was adamantly against it.
This is revolting because it is a game.
Withhold votes for more pentagon funding. This is not even a child’s leverage.
By the time demented Biden and his neocons are done with Ukraine and Gaza, they will be done with the EU,NATO, and the UN.
Great job for a demented old man and his cabal, massacres’ are their specialty.
Well they should at least defund Blinken…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Case%E2%80%93Church_Amendment
‘Warmongers’ run amok!
The senate is a diseased entity that is flush with AIPAC money and the threat of losing senator status should they vote against what is morally indefensible. They don’t care about anyone except those who butter their bread sadly. America loses, as do those being mass murdered.
Bernie doesn’t fool me. He knew this was going to fail that’s why he proposed it. A safe way of giving him political cover for not demanding a ceasefire or his dithering on BDS… Anything that the Zios recoil from like a vampire from a crucifix.
Reviving ISIS: A US weapon against the Resistance Axis.”[There are] several incidents that confirm the American assistance in securing the crossing route for ISIS members – mainly, by shelling Iraqi units on the border, especially the Popular Mobilization Units (PMUs), to create gaps that allow ISIS fighters to cross the border.”
The Iraqi security source adds that there are confirmed reports of US Chinook helicopters transporting fighters from eastern Syria to the Anbar desert in western Iraq and Jebel Hamreen, in the country’s east. https://new.thecradle.co/articles/reviving-isis-a-us-weapon-against-the-resistance-axis
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The mainstream media protected Senators from being known for their votes in favor of genocide and Genocide Joe.
I had to seach to find a site that would name them. They were simply hidden in the NYT, WaPo, and WSJ. They were shown only partially on Google to a pay site.
I finally found them, but to me the important story to that was that they were quite deliberately hidden — and that both of my Senators cowardly hid their votes to protect and continue Israeli murder from the outraged Muslim community in Michigan.
Which way did Elizabeth “Everyone Should Always Be Held Accountable To Me For Everything They Do That I Don’t Like” Warren vote?
“support for Sanders’s resolution came almost entirely from Democratic senators: Laphonza
Butler of California, Martin Heinrich of New Mexico, Mazie Hirono of
Hawaii, Ben Ray Luján of New Mexico, Ed Markey and Elizabeth Warren of
Massachusetts, Jeff Merkley of Oregon, Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, and
Peter Welch of Vermont. Rand Paul was the only Republican to vote
against tabling the resolution.”
https://theintercept.com/2024/01/16/senate-israel-human-rights-condition-aid/
Interesting.
I’m glad to see that Warren is at least consistent, as this is the kind of thing where people SHOULD be held “accountable.”
Well it’s all performative. Like: “OMG someone is slaughtering a child in the alley before my every eyes!! I demand an investigation!!
I hate it when people I despise cross me up by doing something worthwhile. Warren voted Nay.
The Senate vote is public information and easy to find. There is no need to fill up news space listing the 72 Senators that voted to table the resolutio