Senate rejects Sanders effort to block Israeli weapons sale as war on Gaza widens – Mondoweiss

The Senate has rejected a pair of resolutions from Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) aimed at blocking weapon sales to Israel.

The final votes were 15-82 and 15-83.

Sanders’s resolutions of disapproval were aimed at halting a $8.56 billion sale of weapons and munitions to Israel.

“This war has been conducted almost entirely with American weapons and some $18 billion in U.S. taxpayer dollars,” said Sanders in a statement days before the vote. “Israel has dropped…