Ro Khanna Calls Trump’s Iran Strike “Unconstitutional” but Votes against Impeachment

 from Sam Husseini

Imperial Israel’s genocide has been enabled most recently by Trump’s bombing of Iran’s peaceful nuclear weapons program. That attack should have triggered impeachment by Congress, but didn’t.

I questioned Rep. Ro Khanna on Tuesday night at an event moderated by Zeteo’s Mehdi Hassan. Many thanks to

It’s shall we say remarkable that Khanna (a very sophisticated member of the House Armed Services Committee) would claim he didn’t know Israel — and the US government — won’t acknowledge Israel’s nuclear “power” — err, it’s nuclear WEAPONS. This is especially true since I actually asked him about this issue in an AMA last year and he ignored it as This is critical because US law prohibits funding countries that are nuclear weapons proliferators. In 2020, Grant Smith of Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy wrote to members of Congress who have been critical of Israel: “I believe your coalition has far more influence on the matter of foreign aid than it may realize. In 2016 and 2017 we sued the administration(s) over violations of the Arms Export Control Act, but did not prevail for lack of standing. Your coalition does not have such issues.” Smith would later tell me: “But no member of Congress has taken up this issue — or even mentioned Israel’s nuclear weapons arsenal.”

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