Senate rejects Sanders’ bid to block $8.8 billion arms sales to Israel

The Senate rejected a suggestion of Senator Bernie Sanders, I-VT. , Which would have prevented the sale of their planned weapons worth $ 8.8 billion to Israel.

Sanders’s proposal was divided into two votes, each of them failed, with 15 Senate members voted on this procedure.

Fourteen democratic voice with Sanders. Ceninsard Richard Durbin, Illinois, Martin Heinrich, New Mexico, Mazi Herono, Hawaii, Ben Ray Logan, NM, Tim Kane, Virginia, Andy Kim, New Jersey, Ed Marki, Massachusetts, Jeff Merkeley, Uri. Elizabeth Warren, Massachusetts, Peter Walsh, VT.

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Before voting, the head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Jim Rich, R-Idaho, warned that when the decisions are passed, “Senate members will abandon Israel and close our ally in the Middle East during a pivotal moment of global security.”

On Wednesday, Sanders released a video discussing his proposal, in which he demanded the United States to “end our complicity in these atrocities” in Gaza. The government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was accused of acting in a “barbaric” way, saying that humanitarian aid had been prevented from reaching Ghazan.

From January 19, 2025 until March 2, 2025, while the Israeli stopping deal was in effect, entered a total of 25,200 auxiliary trucks in Gaza, according to the coordinator of government activities in the regions. This included 4200 weekly auxiliary trucks.

Trucks carrying a aid step near the Rafah crossing, the border between Egypt and Gaza, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in Rafah, Egypt, on February 18, 2025. (Reuters/Mohamed Abdel Ghanaian)

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Before it collapsed earlier last month, the ceasefire deal witnessed 33 hostages and about 2000 Palestinian prisoners.

Israel has long enjoyed supporting the two parties in the United States, but its last war with Hamas has divided the Democrats. Some, such as Senator John Vitirman, Pennsylvania, were defending fierce to Israel, while others, like Sanders, were tough critics.

The demonstrators participate in a protest to support the Palestinians in Gaza, on the sidelines of the National Democratic Conference in Chicago on August 22, 2024. (Reuters/Seth Herald)

The Senate rejects the efforts of Bernie Sanders to prevent arms sales to Israel

Sanders made a similar proposal in November 2024 during the Biden administration, which also failed. Several members of the Senate voted himself who voted in favor of his proposal in April 2025 in favor of the decision under the Biden Administration, with the exception of Sens. Angus King, Maine, Jeanne Shaheen, NH and Raphael Warnock, GA.

Shaheen’s office referred to a statement that they were put on Thursday, where the Senator explains its vote.

“As a member of the American Senate Foreign Relations Committee, I am very concerned about the collapse of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. Immediately, getting rid of the conflict is very important to provide humanitarian aid to the Palestinians, and to issue the remaining hostages in the regional war. Shaheen said,” Israel’s sales to encourage progress in those talks. “

When he talked about his joint decision in November, Sanders claimed that the Israeli government was under control “not only by right -wing extremists, but by religious fanatics.” Netanyahu was also accused of violating international law.