Sen. Bernie Sanders called on Congress Tuesday to reject the $10.1 billion in unconditional military aid to Israel, citing “Netanyahu’s illegal and immoral war against the Palestinian People.”
In a statement, Sanders said the supplemental funding bill gives aid “for the right-wing Netanyahu government to continue its brutal war against the Palestinian people.”
“Enough is enough. Congress must reject that funding. The taxpayers of the United States must no longer be complicit in destroying the lives of innocent men, women, and children in Gaza.” Sanders said the issue is complicated, adding that “while we recognize that Hamas’ barbaric terrorist attack began this war, we must also recognize that Israel’s military response has been grossly disproportionate, immoral, and in violation of international law.”
“And, most importantly for Americans, we must understand that Israel’s war against the Palestinian people has been significantly waged with U.S. bombs, artillery shells, and other forms of weaponry. And the results have been catastrophic.” Sanders, one of the first members of Congress to call for a humanitarian pause, is now one of the first to call for the end to unconditional aid to Israel.
I see zero reason why we can’t give them weapons with the goal of continuing peace. If Israel isn’t actively passing legislation towards a peaceful a initiative, then they don’t get weapons. Yes, I understand security and defense but if you aren’t ever actively working towards a peace that doesn’t need such security…do you really want peace?
That’s reasonable.
They only need to enforce the rules that are already there.
Christians are gonna call him an anti-Semite.
Glad he’s had an about-face on the war, this isn’t your typical middle east skirmish, it’s beyond brutal. The world has voted and said enough.
They don’t need unconditional aid. They’re fighting guerrillas at best.
“Unconditional” is some “We wanna do genocide” nonsense. There is no threat to their sovereignty in the region.
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Good.
Joe Biden will give Israel all the weapons and moral support they need to exterminate the terrorist-rapists of Hamas. Thank you, President Biden.
I support aiding Israel and disagree with the overwhelming majority of Bernie Sanders political positions, but he is absolutely correct that any aid given needs to be passed through the correct appropriation process in Congress.
Did Bernie get his voice back ? A little late isn’t he ?
We should be putting them under sanctions for ethnic cleansing and massacres of children. Any other country would’ve been bombed by now but Israel gets a free pass and protection internationally. Biden is destroying America’s credibility.
Why do we give Israel aid anyway? I understand why we are allied. I also understand that not only are they quite well off financially, but relatively to those that are and would become their enemy they are far better off. They can afford this war all by themselves.
Even if they were paragons of virtue in this war I don’t see why would do anything more than just quietly continue to sell them weapons.
Few good men left
Sanders knows what’s up.
He knows Netanyahu’s full of shit.
Biden is Benjamin Netanyahu’s puppet , he will make sure he gets his money don’t worry republicans . Biden actually went around congress to give Israel weapons . Imagine he won’t do that for m4all or increase min wage but a country who does genocide he will slobber for .
Unconditional sure, funding is still a good thing though. 🇮🇱❤️
Remember when they bombed for a week straight before even telling anyone to evacuate?
Remember when they bombed the Egypt border after telling everyone to evacuate to the Egypt border?
Remember when they shot an Israeli man on his knees in the street because they “thought he was palestinian?”
Remember when they sniped 2 old women in front of the christian church?
Pepperidge farm remembers.
What if we make it conditional on getting all the funniest Jews? That’s a high bar, I’ll admit, but imagine the films!
Ya, I’m there. US aid is the only real leverage anyone has on Israel. If they want the money, they negotiate a peace deal.
EDIT: Self hating Jew here, lol.
Israel is probably the only country in that part of the world with that turbulent of an environment that DOESN’T need our help….. reject the funding and focus on Ukraine.
That’s all without even considering their genocidal tendencies masked by Zionist/Anti-hamas dog-whistling.
Edit: removed a factually incorrect point that doesn’t change my stance
If we were to end the support…
“Yo Bibi, baby, it’s President For Life, Xi here. Yeah, I heard you had a bad breakup! Look, we don’t like Uyghurs, you don’t like Palestinians, we should hook up!”
Bro sit your old ass down. Israel all the way!
US military aid to Israel is 3 billion, Israel gdp is 500 billion. I don’t know much but it looks like Israel wouldn’t even feel the difference. 🤷♂️
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Sen. Bernie Sanders called on Congress Tuesday to reject the $10.1 billion in unconditional military aid to Israel, citing “Netanyahu’s illegal and immoral war against the Palestinian People.”
In a statement, Sanders said the supplemental funding bill gives aid “for the right-wing Netanyahu government to continue its brutal war against the Palestinian people.”
“Enough is enough. Congress must reject that funding. The taxpayers of the United States must no longer be complicit in destroying the lives of innocent men, women, and children in Gaza.” Sanders said the issue is complicated, adding that “while we recognize that Hamas’ barbaric terrorist attack began this war, we must also recognize that Israel’s military response has been grossly disproportionate, immoral, and in violation of international law.”
“And, most importantly for Americans, we must understand that Israel’s war against the Palestinian people has been significantly waged with U.S. bombs, artillery shells, and other forms of weaponry. And the results have been catastrophic.” Sanders, one of the first members of Congress to call for a humanitarian pause, is now one of the first to call for the end to unconditional aid to Israel.
I see zero reason why we can’t give them weapons with the goal of continuing peace. If Israel isn’t actively passing legislation towards a peaceful a initiative, then they don’t get weapons. Yes, I understand security and defense but if you aren’t ever actively working towards a peace that doesn’t need such security…do you really want peace?
That’s reasonable.
They only need to enforce the rules that are already there.
Christians are gonna call him an anti-Semite.
Glad he’s had an about-face on the war, this isn’t your typical middle east skirmish, it’s beyond brutal. The world has voted and said enough.
They don’t need unconditional aid. They’re fighting guerrillas at best.
“Unconditional” is some “We wanna do genocide” nonsense. There is no threat to their sovereignty in the region.
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Good.
Joe Biden will give Israel all the weapons and moral support they need to exterminate the terrorist-rapists of Hamas. Thank you, President Biden.
I support aiding Israel and disagree with the overwhelming majority of Bernie Sanders political positions, but he is absolutely correct that any aid given needs to be passed through the correct appropriation process in Congress.
Did Bernie get his voice back ? A little late isn’t he ?
We should be putting them under sanctions for ethnic cleansing and massacres of children. Any other country would’ve been bombed by now but Israel gets a free pass and protection internationally. Biden is destroying America’s credibility.
Why do we give Israel aid anyway? I understand why we are allied. I also understand that not only are they quite well off financially, but relatively to those that are and would become their enemy they are far better off. They can afford this war all by themselves.
Even if they were paragons of virtue in this war I don’t see why would do anything more than just quietly continue to sell them weapons.
Few good men left
Sanders knows what’s up.
He knows Netanyahu’s full of shit.
Biden is Benjamin Netanyahu’s puppet , he will make sure he gets his money don’t worry republicans . Biden actually went around congress to give Israel weapons . Imagine he won’t do that for m4all or increase min wage but a country who does genocide he will slobber for .
Unconditional sure, funding is still a good thing though. 🇮🇱❤️
Remember when they bombed for a week straight before even telling anyone to evacuate?
Remember when they bombed the Egypt border after telling everyone to evacuate to the Egypt border?
Remember when they shot an Israeli man on his knees in the street because they “thought he was palestinian?”
Remember when they sniped 2 old women in front of the christian church?
Pepperidge farm remembers.
What if we make it conditional on getting all the funniest Jews? That’s a high bar, I’ll admit, but imagine the films!
Ya, I’m there. US aid is the only real leverage anyone has on Israel. If they want the money, they negotiate a peace deal.
EDIT: Self hating Jew here, lol.
Israel is probably the only country in that part of the world with that turbulent of an environment that DOESN’T need our help….. reject the funding and focus on Ukraine.
That’s all without even considering their genocidal tendencies masked by Zionist/Anti-hamas dog-whistling.
Edit: removed a factually incorrect point that doesn’t change my stance
If we were to end the support…
“Yo Bibi, baby, it’s President For Life, Xi here. Yeah, I heard you had a bad breakup! Look, we don’t like Uyghurs, you don’t like Palestinians, we should hook up!”
Bro sit your old ass down. Israel all the way!
US military aid to Israel is 3 billion, Israel gdp is 500 billion. I don’t know much but it looks like Israel wouldn’t even feel the difference. 🤷♂️
Bernie knows; religion is stupid af
Bernie on the right side of history yet again.
How about a cease-fire?