Senate rejects Sanders-backed proposals to block arms sales to Israel

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SD MPs Levice and Mojca Šetinc Pašek addressed an initiative to the government in which they strongly oppose the continuation of plans to purchase Israeli weapons. Mors replies that Slovenia has not bought weapons and equipment from Israel since the beginning of the war in Gaza.

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US Senate Smacks Down Bernie Sanders-Backed Effort to Block Arms Sales to Israel

US Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) speaks to the media following a meeting with US President Joe Biden at the White House in Washington, US, July 17, 2023. Photo: REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein The US Senate on Wednesday overwhelmingly voted against an effort to implement a partial arms embargo on Israel, rebuffing three separate resolutions spearheaded by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) to deprive the Jewish state of weapons amid its ongoing war against Hamas …

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19 U.S. Senators Back Bills to Block Arms Sales to Israel

Just hours after the United States vetoed yet another U.N. Security Council resolution calling for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire in Gaza, the U.S. Senate on Wednesday rejected three resolutions supported by less than two dozen Democratic senators that sought to block the sale of U.S. tank rounds, bomb kits and other lethal weapons to Israel. HuffPost correspondent Akbar Shahid Ahmed reveals that the White House lobbied against the Sena

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Senate rejects Sanders’ push to halt US arms sales as weapons fuel 44,000 deaths in Gaza

The Senate overwhelmingly voted against the measures, leaving advocates of peace and human rights questioning U.S. complicity in the alleged war crimes unfolding in Gaza.

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Although efforts to regulate the sale of arms to Israel have failed, political analysts have admitted that it represents a turning point for U.S. politics. On Thursday, the U.S. Senate rejected the proposal put forward by a group of legislators seeking to block massive arms sales to Israel for use during the ongoing genocide in Gaza. READ ALSO:Bernie Sanders is re-elected Senator for Vermont State The motion received 79 votes against 18 favorabl…

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Senate Overwhelmingly Rejects Sanders Resolutions to Block Arms Sales to Israel

On Wednesday, less than a fifth of the Senate voted to block weapons sales to Israel in a key vote orchestrated by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) that will be remembered for decades to come as a show of U.S. lawmakers’ deep complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Senators overwhelmingly rejected the resolutions, with around 79 voting against blocking the sales of tank rounds… Source