Senate Rejects Bid to Halt Sale of Bombs and Rifles to Israel, But Democratic Opposition Grows

TIME

The Senate rejected an effort Wednesday from Sen. Bernie Sanders to block the sale of U.S. bombs and firearms to Israel, though the vote showed a growing number of Democrats opposed to the arms sales amid widespread hunger and suffering in Gaza.

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00:00On this vote, the yeas are 24 and the nays are 73, and the motion is not agreed to.

00:08The clerk will report the motion to invoke cloture.

00:10U.S. taxpayers have spent many, many billions of dollars in support of the racist, extremist

00:20Netanyahu government.

00:22Enough is enough.

00:24Americans want this to end.

00:27They do not want to be complicit in an unfolding famine and daily civilian massacres.

00:35They use the people of Gaza as human shields.

00:38And they steal the food that the people of Gaza need.

00:41It is despicable behavior.

00:44These are not good people, and it is in the interest of America and the world to see this

00:50terrorist group destroyed.

00:51It's painful for many of us who've devoted our congressional careers to supporting

00:57Israel and standing by them through difficult times.

01:00It is impossible to really explain or defend what is going on today.

01:06Gaza is starving and dying because of the policies of Bibi Netanyahu.

01:10It is time for us as a nation to say that our taxpayers are not going to support this effort.

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