IL Senators Duckworth, Durbin vote to continue weaponizing Israel’s genocide in Gaza
IL Senators Duckworth, Durbin vote to continue weaponizing Israel’s genocide in Gaza
My Illinois Senators Tammy Duckworth and Dick Durbin had their chance to make a dent in Israel’s ongoing 102 day genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. They voted to continue it.
Senator Bernie Sanders offered a mild resolution calling on the State Department to determine if the billions in US 2,000 lb. bombs and other weapons Israel uses to make Gaza uninhabitable are committing human rights violations there. Under the 1961 Foreign Assistance Act, US weapons aid would be frozen if such violations are found occurring.
Tragically for the 2.3 million Palestinians being systematically bombed, starved, denied medicine and functioning hospitals, neither Duckworth nor Durbin saw the need to even investigate cutting off US support for the worst people-made humanitarian catastrophe this century. There attitude is: 'Nothing here folks, move on.'
Both are in lockstep support of President Biden’s mad descent into cruelty, death and destruction of the most neglected and marginalized people on earth. Their support of US enabling genocide is a contemptible stain on their governmental resume. If not corrected, it will forever haunt their moral legacy as well.
posted by Walt Zlotow at 3:11 PM
1 Comments:
It's the same with my senator, Tammy Baldwin (WI). I called her office and demanded to know why!
(The reason is, that if they supply weapons when they KNOW human rights are being violated, they are guilty if violating thr Geneva Conventions and *could* be held accountable on the Hague.
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