A record number of Senate Democrats, more than half of Cocks, voted in favor of two proposals to block US military sales on Wednesday night.
While the resolutions eventually failed, the vote showed how Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fractured historically bipartisan support in the Congress on the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip in the War of Israeli against Hamas.
All Republican failed against the resolution, measurement and 20 democrats sponsored by Sen Berney Sanders (I-VT).
The senators voted in favor of 27 and 70 to defeat Sanders’ resolution (sjres.34), seeking Israel to block more than $ 675 million in arms sale.
A second resolution (Sjres. 41) in 24 side, and against 73. Sankalp demanded to ban the sale of thousands of completely automated attack rifles.
Sanders said in front of the vote, “Whatever happens tonight, history will condemn those of us who failed to work in front of these horrors.”
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Democrats implicated their opposition for military assistance to Israel as protest against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, not as opposition to the entire Israel.
The first time voting yes included Sen Patty Murray (D-Wash), who was the vice-chairman of the Senate Appropriation Committee.
“This legislative equipment is not correct, but clearly, it’s time to say enough for the pain of innocent young children and families,” he said in a statement interpret his vote.
“As a long time friend and supporter of Israel, I have been voting yes to send a message: Netanyahu government cannot continue this strategy. Netanyahu has extinguished this war at every turn to stay in power.”
Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee ranking member Sen Jean Shaheen (DN.H.) also voted. While he voted in favor of Sanders’ resolution of November, he voted against his April proposal.
He said, “I will stand for the existence of Israel and the safety of my citizens. I will also continue to support Israel’s right to protect myself, but I cannot do good conscience in support of weapons, until human pain in Gaza is over,” he said in a statement.
Criticism against Netanyahu recently matches the opinion of Americans towards the Israeli leader. A gallop pole raised in early July recorded that most Americans rejected Netanyahu in 52 percent, their highest adverse ratings since 1997.
Poll changed with party lines. Two-thirds Republican, 67 percent, Netanyahu is a favorable approach, Compared to 19 percent Independent and nine percent democrats.
Those numbers reflected large -scale Americans’ attitude towards Israel’s military action. Support with 32 percent of Americans supported the support of war reached an all -time low. In Democrats, Israeli has only eight percent of support for military action, although a large part of Republican supports the war at 71 percent.
Senate’s vote comes as an international resentment, the Gaza Strip is at the peak against Israel for the humanitarian crisis, where food crisis experts warned earlier this week that the famine is “worst situation”, and as the deaths from starvation begin to last.
While Israel has begun to allow more food and human assistance in the strip after a long blockade of a month, the country is rapidly isolated on failure to indicate a closing point for Netanyahu’s war and wide death in the images and strips of weak children.
The British Prime Minister Kir Stmper on Monday announced that the UK would involve France in recognizing an independent Palestinian kingdom until Israel took steps to end the war. French President Emanuel Macron will formalize his recognition at the United Nations General Assembly in September.
And President Trump broke with Netanyahu earlier this week, admitting that the starvation was staring at the Palestinians in the strip. But he has not indicated that he will take advantage of American military support to achieve a ceasefire.
The administration has indicated Hamas as a barrier to a ceasefire deal. The US is proposing a ceasefire, which will require Hamas to release the body of at least 20 living hostages and 30 others, and it will allow for the scale of human aid in the strip.
Death toll in Gaza passed a serious milestone this week, killing more than 60,000 Palestinians since the onset of the Israeli war against Hamas, on October 7, 2023 after Hamas launched after the terrorist attack, where the group killed around 1,200 people and took 251 hostages.
While the toll of death in Gaza does not distinguish between terrorists and citizens, Israel claims that it has killed around 20,000 fighters.
