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and the only legislative remedy available to senators opposed to the Biden administration’s efforts to sell $20 billion in arms to Israel.
The resolutions would block the sale of 120-millimeter mortar rounds, joint direct attack munitions, and the sale of tank rounds. Eighteen Democrats voted in support including the sponsors of the resolutions and Sens. Elizabeth Warren , Tim Kaine , Angus King , Martin Heinrich , Jon Ossoff , Mazie Hirono , Ed Markey , Tina Smith , Dick Durbin , Jeanne Shaheen , Ben Ray Lujan , Raphael Warnock , and Chris Murphy .The vote came as a show of force from the Democratic Party’s left flank as divisions over U.S. support of Israel have been simmering over the last 13 months.
“From a moral perspective, we cannot turn a blind eye to one of the worst humanitarian disasters in the modern history of this world, a humanitarian disaster that we are significantly funding,” Sanders said on the floor of the Senate on Wednesday.
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