US Senate Overwhelmingly Rejects Freezing Security Aid For Israel
The resolution called on the State Department to draft a report on whether Israel committed human rights violations in Gaza
The US Senate overwhelmingly rejected a resolution to freeze security aid to Israel on the evening of 16 January.
The resolution demanded that security aid be frozen unless the Department of State produces a report within 30 days examining whether Israel has committed human rights violations during its brutal war on Gaza.
Forced by independent senator Bernie Sanders, who caucuses with the Democratic Party, the vote settled with 72 votes against while only 11 voted for 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 urging support and criticizing what he described as the Senate’s failure to consider any measure looking at the war’s effects on the civilian population.
“Hundreds of thousands of children in Gaza, innocent children, are starving right before our eyes. We cannot turn away.
We must act,” Sanders said. “Tragically, despite the efforts of the UN and others, despite the growing humanitarian crisis we are seeing, the situation has actually gotten worse in terms of getting aid to the people in need, to these children.”
….”This resolution is not only off-base, it’s dangerous. It sends absolutely the wrong signal at the wrong time,” Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said.
Source: The Cradle
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