Re: Senate votes down Sanders bid for state dept human rights/Israel assessment

 
From: "Josie Setzler josiesetzler@PROTECTED [Northwest Ohio Peace Coalition]" <peacelist@PROTECTED>
In-Reply-To: Senate votes down Sanders bid for state dept human rights/Israel assessment
Date: January 16th 2024
Josh Ruebner reports on Twitter tonight:
The Senate just voted 72-11 to kill @SenSanders resolution to have the State Department report Israel's human rights abuses against Palestinians. Senators voting not to kill it: Butler, Heinrich, Hirono, Lujan, Markey, Merkley, Paul, Sanders, Van Hollen, Warren, Welch.

On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 8:55 PM Terry Lodge tjlodge50@PROTECTED [Northwest Ohio Peace Coalition] <peacelist@PROTECTED> wrote:
 

From: tjlodge50@PROTECTED

I can't find the actual vote taken in the Senate but it'd be useful to know who voted for Bernie's measure. This forced the fascist-leaning Senators to go on record with their complete indifference to the mass murder of Palestinians.

Invoking an obscure provision in the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, Bernie tried to force a State Dept analysis of human rights violations by Israel. The Zionists hold enormous sway in Congress.


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