from Press TV
The US Senate has overwhelmingly rejected a proposed resolution that would have made military aid to Israel conditional to whether the regime is committing human rights violations in its war against the besieged Gaza Strip.
The resolution put forward by Senator Bernie Sanders failed to pass on Wednesday with 11 votes in favor and 72 votes against it, effectively killing the motion.
"We must ensure that US aid is being used in accordance with human rights and our own laws," Sanders said in a speech before the vote.
He went on to say that the vote was "necessary because of the scale of destruction in Gaza," describing Israel's operations in Gaza as a "humanitarian catastrophe."
He also stressed that Israel does not have a right to use military assistance from the United States to go to war against the entire Palestinian people.
In a statement before the vote, Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.) said he opposed the resolution because it "directly put at risk ongoing US support for Israel while they are at war” with the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas.
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham also said, "This resolution is not only off-base, it's dangerous. It sends absolutely the wrong signal at the wrong time."...
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Well, we have been supporting them militarily for decades, despite our own law saying that it would be illegal to do so if they are a nuclear state (which they are - thanks to us) but not a signatory to the NNPT (which they are not). It’s yet another in a long list of random exceptions to our “rules based order”
ReplyDeleteLike Zappa said, “The US is a nation of laws; badly written, and selectively enforced”