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Bernie Sanders preparing resolutions to block $20B in US arms sales to Israel
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Bernie Sanders is preparing several resolutions that would stop more than $20 billion in U.S. arms sales to Israel, a longshot effort but the most substantive pushback yet from Congress over the devastation in Gaza ahead of the first year anniversary of the Israel-Hamas war. In a letter to Senate colleagues on Wednesday, Sanders said the U.S. cannot be "complicit in this humanitarian disaster." The action would force an eventual vote to block the arms sales to Israel, though majority passage is highly unlikely. "Much of this carnage in Gaza has been carried out with U.S.-provided military equipment," Sanders, I-Vt., wrote. As the war grinds toward a second year, and with the outcome of President Joe Biden's efforts to broker a cease-fire deal and hostage release uncertain, the resolutions from Sanders would seek to reign in Israeli Prime Minister ...
