US Senator Bernie Sanders criticized the Senate’s intention to provide military aid to Israel and said that the Senate “is considering granting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu $14 billion to continue the indiscriminate bombing of the Gaza Strip.”
US Senator Sanders denounced the matter, wondering how the Senate could seriously criticize “Putin’s war crimes in Ukraine” while ignoring the killing of 27,000 Palestinian children.
Last month, Sanders accused the United States of being complicit in “the nightmare that the Palestinian people are experiencing.” In a speech before the Senate, Sanders stressed that he finds it difficult to understand why Congress does not act to stop the suffering of the Palestinians and address the humanitarian catastrophe they face in Gaza.
For her part, Senator Elizabeth Warren explained that there is a need to resume the ceasefire and advance peace through the two-state solution, stressing that there are no more blank checks for Netanyahu, she said.
Warren pointed out that Netanyahu and his right-wing government failed to free the hostages and killed about 30,000 Palestinians.
A month ago, Warren described Netanyahu’s refusal to establish a Palestinian state within any post-war arrangements as “dangerous,” noting that this refusal contradicts American policy.
Not in the near future
In a related context, the American newspaper The Washington Post reported that American intelligence officials informed Congress that the Israeli occupation is not close to eliminating the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas).
Yesterday, US Congresswoman, Representative Rashida Tlaib, of Palestinian origin, expressed her astonishment at some of her colleagues in Congress, who were whispering to her that they did not like Netanyahu, but at the same time they voted to approve the financial support that Washington provides to Israel.
Rashida said during a congressional session yesterday, Wednesday, “We are doing it again. Sending 17 billion and 600 million dollars in American tax money without conditions to Netanyahu’s extremist government means dropping more bombs on innocent Palestinians. The Israeli government has so far killed 27 thousand people, “Including 11,500 children.”
