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Sanders Moves to Block $8.5B Weapons Transfer to Israel as Trump Pushes Ethnic Cleansing Plan

  • Sen. Bernie Sanders has introduced four Joint Resolutions of Disapproval to block President Donald Trump's proposed $8.5 billion weapons transfer to Israel, citing humanitarian concerns and violations of international law.
  • The proposed weapons transfer includes various bombs and missiles, which have raised legal questions under both domestic and international law due to allegations of contributing to civilian deaths.
  • Sanders argued that moving forward with the sale would violate the Foreign Assistance Act and the Arms Export Control Act, emphasizing the need to protect human rights.
  • The humanitarian crisis in Gaza has intensified, with reports of over 48,000 Palestinian deaths and widespread destruction of infrastructure attributed to U.S.-supplied weapons.
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Sanders Moves to Block $8.5B Weapons Transfer to Israel as Trump Pushes Ethnic Cleansing Plan

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In January 1961, in his farewell address, US president Dwight D. Eisenhower warned that, as a result of the Second World War and the ensuing Cold War, the United States had ‘been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions’. But the consequences had not been foreseen: ‘This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience… Yet we must not fail to comprehend i…

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