What to expect when the US Senate finally votes on weapons to Israel
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Ahead of new administration, this may be last chance lawmakers have to go on record about Israeli human rights violations

On Wednesday, the US Senate will hold a vote on whether to approve the Pentagon’s request to send another $20bn in armaments to Israel, after a year in which the Biden administration has supplied billions of dollars of arms used in Israel’s devastating war on Gaza.

Among the weapons to be approved are 120mm tank rounds, high explosive mortar rounds, F-15IA fighter aircraft, and joint direct attack munitions, known as JDAMs, which are precision systems for otherwise indiscriminate or “dumb” bombs.

Separate resolutions are being brought forward for each weapon type, including its cost to US taxpayers. However, together, the initiative is known as the Joint Resolutions of Disapproval (JRDs).

As a result of intensive lobbying from pro-Israel groups like Aipac and the Democratic Majority For Israel, no arms transfer to Israel has been blocked.

The resolutions likely to gain the highest levels of support are expected to involve the tank rounds, which have been responsible for killing hundreds of civilians in northern Gaza in particular, and the JDAMs, which caused the death of well-known figures such as Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah in southern Lebanon, and six-year-old Hind Rajab in Gaza City.

  • aesthelete@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Until we get dirty money out of at least the primaries and an actually non biased DNC, it’s not voters deciding.

    You aren’t getting “dirty money” out of politics from your couch or by making a post about it on Lemmy.

    I show up to vote progressive during party primaries and you and yours leave me lonely at the polls. In some states, such as my state of California, we have jungle primaries. The “DNC” certainly didn’t force the general contest for CA senator to be Schiff versus a Republican…the voters did.

    Everyone talks a big game online about how popular leftism is, but I have yet to see it where it actually counts: at the fucking polls.

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      Oh…

      This is one of those things where you’re replying to a lot of my comments at once wanting to have the same argument in multiple places at the same time…

      Most people will just ignore you or block you once they realize what’s happening.

      Sometimes you just have to wait for someone to reply.

      Hope that helps you in the future.