99% of House votes to continue sending genocide weapons to Israel

 99% of House votes to continue sending genocide weapons to Israel

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green’s amendment to the 2025 National Defense Authorization bill to revoke $500 million in weaponry for Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza was overwhelmingly defeated in the House 422 to 6.

All 422 voting against stopping the genocide weapons are fully aware Israel has bombed Gaza’s 139 square miles to rubble with US provided bombs, logistics support and intelligence. They know Palestinians are starving to death daily. They know Israeli troops are shooing starving Palestinians venturing out for the few morsels of food Israel deigns allow in. They know the US vetoes any UN Security Council resolutions demanding end to the genocide.

But they do not let the worst US enabled humanitarian catastrophe in American history make a dent in their morally damaged consciences. They should try to imagine their wives, husbands, children, parents undergoing the depraved Israeli genocide that their votes in Congress enable.

Just a smidgeon over 1% of congresspersons voting had the decency, moral clarity to support Rep. Greene’s principled amendment. Listen again to her words in support of her amendment to strip $500 million in genocide weapons for Israel. "I don't know about you, but I don't want to pay for genocide in a foreign country against a foreign people for a foreign war that I had nothing to do with. And I will not be silent about it."

Let’s honor Rep. Greene (R-GA) and the 5 congresspersons who joined Rep. Greene in her quixotic effort to steer America away from its depraved path enabling Israeli genocide of the remaining Palestinians in Gaza they have not yet killed.

Summer Lee (D-PA), Thomas Massie (R-KY), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Al Green (D-TX) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MN).

Walt Zlotow, West Suburban Peace Coalition, Glen Ellyn IL