The Democratic votes on the pair of resolutions from Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., were not enough to overcome universal opposition from Republicans.
Still, the votes represented a watershed moment in the party’s relationship with Israel and the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Israel had continued to enjoy strong support from Democratic leaders, despite outrage from the base over the war on Gaza. Sanders said the votes signaled that party leaders are finally taking note.
“This is where the American people are. The polls are very clear: The overwhelming majority of American people do not want to continue to give weapons to Netanyahu and his horrific wars in the Mideast,” he said. “I think the Democrats have caught on to that. It took a little while, but they caught on to that. But Republicans, I think, are standing in opposition to millions of their own supporters.”
Just a few years too late.
Best time to cut ties with Israel was 20 years ago.
Second best time is now
I didn’t disagree.
If the Ds had enough votes to block passage, magically, just one would vote against.
We need a country to bribe our reps more than Israel does, this is the only way. Oops, I mean donate.
China, you’re our only hope.
This idea that China is somehow going to save you or the world is brain death.
Xi loves what Trump is doing. Why would he risk stabilizing the U.S. when he could just not and continue to madly profit?
Also are you Han Chinese? Because if not, see my first point.
I don’t think Xi Jinping loves when Trump puts 1quadrillion% tariffs on China.
lol imagine if we achieve the death of US imperialism and the dawn of global communism simply by bribing the politicians more than the capitalists do.
Putin has been donating to that first issue for a while now.
Imagine if the people of the nation had enough money for food, shelter, and political donations.
We need a country to bribe our reps more than Israel does
It’s a circular scheme. Money we spend arming Israel goes to their weapons manufacturers. Their MIC collects a profit, which is milled back into campaign donations to US Congresscritters. Congresscritters take the money and rubber stamp more tax-dollars to Israel, to buy more weapons, to generate more profit, to bribe more of Congress.
China, you’re our only hope.
President Xi, please liberate our people.
Why do you want a foreign country to interfere on your country’s affairs?
It would obviously be a net good for global society if the US federal government stopped functioning; if the government continues pursuing its current interests that will never happen, yet if foreign lobbyists whose interests are fundamentally enemical to the US (such as China, but not Israel, which is just an appendage of the US) can influence the US federal government it may happen. At least that seems more proximal than the US working class suddenly gaining the kind of militant political stances and organization that would be necessary otherwise. But if both things could happen that’d be even better.
We are remarkably lazy, thoroughly beaten down, and a generation or two removed from an education that would have been helpful. Couple that with a people who believe the world is ending and 50 years of bad leadership.
I’d say the majority of Americans are not yet aware that their government has changed.
Meaningless posturing because they knew it wouldn’t win. Wake me up when they have a majority and actually do something with it.
It’s not meaningless. It’s saying “if you vote for us, we will make this happen”.
If you don’t fail to pass laws/resolutions because you’re the minority, you won’t win votes over.
That would be sound reasoning if they ever fucking did anything like this when they had a majority
Cool! Now let’s do that 2 years ago
If you know popular legislation will fail then it’s easier to support it.
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Bare minimum but a start I guess
DIdn’t the DNC vote those sorts of policies down in terms of adding em to the next platform when they run? Seem to recall seeing that recently.
If so, my guess is this is a political maneuver to try and reclaim the votes they lost for unflinching support of Israel. It’s the “Well, we can all vote no now, to look good to the voters and hedge our bets to get elected – but then once elected, we just go back to the status quo, which we technically never said we’d veer away from, so no harm no foul”.
Netanyahu did this. Allowing support for Israel to become a partisan issue in the US will go down as one of the classic blunders.
failed just as planned. i can’t take them
seriouslynever mind i do take them seriously after they rejected the call to stop taking AIPAC money. of course they are not going to stop. they just need to choose the defectors. and shumer is too cowardly to answer for his own demandsDemocrats: against every war but the current war.
The war to end all wars
75%?
I would say mostly, not overwhelmingly.
The dems are whores for corporate money and this war actually threaten said money
Would have been nice if their line in the sand was genocide but I guess this is still better than the alternative
dEmOc RaTz lOvE tEh GeNoSiiiiiEdEezS!11/x!
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