Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Tuesday announced that 10 billion dollars to Israel are being considered amid the Israeli military's “grossly disproportionate” and “immoral” response to the October attack by Hamas terrorists. I urged my colleagues in Congress to reject military funding that exceeds US dollars. .7 attack.
In a statement, Sanders called on Congress to deny $10.1 billion in “unconditional military aid” to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's “right-wing government that continues its brutal war against the Palestinian people.” He said there was.
“The issues we face in the Israel-Gaza issue are not complex,” Sanders said. “While we recognize that Hamas's barbaric terrorist attacks were the start of this war, we also recognize that Israel's military response is grossly disproportionate, immoral, and in violation of international law. And most importantly for Americans, we need to understand Israel's war against the United States.''The Palestinian people have suffered tremendous attacks from American bombs, artillery shells, and other weapons. And the results were disastrous. ”
More than 22,000 people have been killed in Gaza and Israel since Hamas launched the largest attack On October 7, Israeli forces launched a ground operation in the area in the first counterattack against the Jewish state in decades. Civilians were repeatedly caught in the crossfire, with thousands injured, and many others taken hostage by Hamas, raped, tortured, and killed.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., on Tuesday urged his fellow senators to reject more than $10 billion in military funding to Israel that is being considered in the midst of Israel's war with Hamas. ((AP Photo/Jacqueline Martin, File))
Sanders noted that an estimated 57,000 Palestinians have been injured in the conflict.
“Since the start of the war, 1.9 million Palestinian men, women and children have been forced to flee their homes, representing 85% of Gaza's total population,” he said. Nearly 70% of homes in the Gaza Strip have been destroyed or damaged by Israeli shelling, according to an analysis of satellite radar data. ”
“Today, the majority of people in Gaza are not only homeless, but also lack food, water, medicine and fuel,” he continued. “A recent United Nations report found that half of the population of around 2.2 million people are at risk of starvation, and 90% say they regularly go an entire day without food. The World Food Program's chief economist said the humanitarian disaster in Gaza is one of the worst he has ever seen. This cannot be allowed to continue. ”
The proposed military aid to Israel is part of an emergency foreign aid package that also allocates funds for Ukraine, the Indo-Pacific region, and U.S. border security.
Sanders said American taxpayers “must no longer be complicit in destroying the lives of innocent men, women, and children in Gaza.”
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Sanders said he is asking Congress to deny $10.1 billion in military aid to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's “right-wing government that continues its brutal war against the Palestinian people.” (Getty)
Last month, Sanders voted against a procedural motion pushing for an emergency $110 billion foreign aid package that included $10.1 billion for Israel. He was the only member of the Democratic caucus to vote against the bill.
Before the vote, Sanders similarly criticized Netanyahu's military response and sent a letter to his colleagues in the Senate Democratic Caucus urging them to oppose the bill.
“I do not believe that the right-wing extremist Netanyahu government should appropriate $10.1 billion to continue its current military strategy,” he said in a Dec. 5 letter. “What the Netanyahu government is doing is immoral and violates international law, and the United States should not be complicit in these actions.”
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A week later, Sanders said in a letter to President Biden that Israel's military response in Gaza had amounted to “an act of mass atrocity” that exceeded the defense systems that protect Israeli civilians from missiles. “It would be irresponsible to provide an additional $10.1 billion in military aid.” And a rocket attack.
The senator warned Biden that “Israel's military actions will be remembered as one of the darkest chapters in modern history,” detailing the number of casualties at the time. He also said the destruction in Gaza exceeded the destruction caused by U.S. bombing of Dresden, German and Japanese cities during World War II.
