Senator’s bid to make US military support conditional on whether Israel is violating human rights in Gaza fails by 72 votes to 11

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    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

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    Anyone got a list of who supported it?

    Edit: so far I found that it was Sanders (duh), Rand Paul, and 9 democrats. Not sure who

    Edit 2: per https://www.businessinsider.com/which-senators-voted-bernie-sanders-resolution-israel-human-rights-violations-2024-1?amp

    Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky

    Democratic Sen. Martin Heinrich of New Mexico

    Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley of Oregon

    Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont

    Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland

    Democratic Sen. Ed Markey of Massachusetts

    Democratic Sen. Laphonza Butler of California

    Democratic Sen. Ben Ray Lujan of New Mexico

    Democratic Sen. Mazie Hirono of Hawaii

    Democratic Sen. Peter Welch of Vermont

    Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts

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      Important to note that this is a motion to table - so the “Yea” vote means they disagree with Bernie’s resolution.

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      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

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    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)

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    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.

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      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.

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        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.

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    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.

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      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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        MIC picked Israel > Ukraine and said it really didn’t matter if Biden won again, because both sides take military industrial complex money and will never allow ranked-choice voting.

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        I think the core here is that the MIC just wants to sell weapons and it doesn’t really matter who or where the ammunition use happens on or with , but that ammo is used and more ammo is bought.

        What I meant by my comment is that they aren’t ‘picking sides’ so much as making sure that oversight isn’t enforced so arms sales can continue unimpeded.