Senate to debate of Sanders’ measure on Israel military aid
Debate is about to begin on a measure that would condition military aid to Israel on whether the Israeli war effort in Gaza is violating human rights and international accords.
Introduced by Bernie Sanders, the measure is unlikely to win approval. But it is one of several measures that progressives have proposed to raise concerns over Israel’s attacks on Gaza, where the death toll surpassed than 24,000. Israel’s bombardment since October has also displaced most of Gaza’s 2.4m residents, and created a humanitarian crisis.
The Senate will soon vote on my resolution directing the State Department to report on any human rights violations that may have occurred using U.S. equipment in the Israeli military campaign in Gaza.
It should not be controversial to ask how U.S. weapons are used. pic.twitter.com/egtZgBwO5Q
— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) January 16, 2024nn”,”url”:”https://twitter.com/SenSanders/status/1747306623582748797″,”id”:”1747306623582748797″,”hasMedia”:false,”role”:”inline”,”isThirdPartyTracking”:false,”source”:”Twitter”,”elementId”:”36e28324-77ac-4121-b10f-83f73f329da7″}}” config=”{“renderingTarget”:”Web”,”darkModeAvailable”:false}”>
The Senate will soon vote on my resolution directing the State Department to report on any human rights violations that may have occurred using U.S. equipment in the Israeli military campaign in Gaza.
It should not be controversial to ask how U.S. weapons are used. pic.twitter.com/egtZgBwO5Q
— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) January 16, 2024
“To my mind, Israel has the absolute right to defend itself from Hamas’ barbaric terrorist attack on October 7, no question about that,” Sanders told AP in an interview.
“But what Israel does not have a right to do — using military assistance from the United States — does not have the right to go to war against the entire Palestinian people,” said Sanders, the independent from Vermont. “And in my view, that’s what has been happening.”
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Introduced by Bernie Sanders, the measure is unlikely to win approval. But it is one of several measures that progressives have proposed to raise concerns over Israel’s attacks on Gaza, where the death toll surpassed than 24,000. Israel’s bombardment since October has also displaced most of Gaza’s 2.4m residents, and created a humanitarian crisis.
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The Senate will soon vote on my resolution directing the State Department to report on any human rights violations that may have occurred using U.S. equipment in the Israeli military campaign in Gaza.
It should not be controversial to ask how U.S. weapons are used. pic.twitter.com/egtZgBwO5Q
— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) January 16, 2024
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“To my mind, Israel has the absolute right to defend itself from Hamas’ barbaric terrorist attack on October 7, no question about that,” Sanders told AP in an interview.
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“But what Israel does not have a right to do — using military assistance from the United States — does not have the right to go to war against the entire Palestinian people,” said Sanders, the independent from Vermont. “And in my view, that’s what has been happening.”
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The White House has denounced Donald Trump’s description of jailed January 6 rioters as “hostages”, describing the former president’s comments as “incredibly grotesque and offensive”.
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During a rally earlier this month, Trump called on Joe Biden to “release the J6 hostages”, referring to the people imprisoned for their role in the January 6 insurrection.
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Trump’s comments were “grotesque and offensive”, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters on Tuesday.
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It is offensive to compare those convicted of assaulting cops and attempting to overthrow the American government … to innocent Americans, Israelis and people of other nationalities who were abducted by Hamas on October 7.
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Nikki Haley has claimed that the US has “never been a racist country”, just weeks after she sparked backlash by failing to specify that slavery was a cause of the civil war.
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The Republican presidential candidate was asked to respond to comments by MSNBC host Joy Reid, who claimed Haley’s third-place finish in Monday night’s Iowa caucuses was largely due to her race and ethnicity. Reid said:
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The elephant in the room – she’s still a brown lady that’s got to try to win in a party that is deeply anti-immigrant … I don’t see how she becomes the nominee of that party.
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In an interview on “Fox & Friends” on Tuesday, Haley was asked to respond to Reid’s comments. Reid “lives in a different America than I do”, the former US ambassador to the UN said, adding:
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I am a brown girl that grew up in South Carolina who became the first female minority governor in history, who became a UN ambassador and is now running for president. If that’s not the American dream, I don’t know what is.
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Asked if she believes the GOP is a “racist party”, Haley replied:
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No. We’re not a racist country. We’ve never been a racist country.
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"We've never been a racist country."
— Nikki Haley rejects Joy Reid's claim that Haley placed third in the Iowa caucuses because she is "a brown lady … in a party that is deeply anti-immigrant," and rejects any claim that the GOP is a racist party pic.twitter.com/a3yRqK82em
— The Recount (@therecount) January 16, 2024
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Donald Trump shook his head in disgust Tuesday as the judge in his New York defamation trial told prospective jurors that another jury had already decided the former president sexually abused columnist E Jean Carroll in the 1990s, the Associated Press reports.
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Both Carroll and Trump are in court in New York today. Jury selection has just been completed, and opening arguments are expected this afternoon. The trial amounts to the penalty phase of a civil defamation lawsuit stemming from Carroll’s actions against Trump who was found liable by a previous jury of sexually attacking her in a department store dressing room many years ago.
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The AP further reports:
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Prospective jurors were told the trial was likely to last three to five days. Opening statements come next. Trump did not attend the previous trial in the case last May, when a jury found he had sexually abused Carroll and awarded her $5 million in damages. In light of that verdict, Judge Lewis Kaplan told prospective jurors the trial beginning Tuesday would focus only on how much money, if any, Trump must pay Carroll for comments he made about her while president in 2019.
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For purposes of the new trial, it had already been determined that Trump “did sexually assault Ms. Carroll,” Kaplan said, prompting Trump to shake his head from side to side. The ex-president was sitting at the defense table, flanked by his lawyers, about a dozen feet from Carroll and her legal team. They didn’t appear to speak or make eye contact.
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As the day began, Kaplan rejected the defense’s request to suspended the trial on Thursday so Trump could attend his mother-in-law’s funeral — part of a combative exchange in which Trump’s lawyers accused the judge of thwarting their defense with pretrial evidence rulings they contend were favorable to Carroll.
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