The chamber didn’t just say no. It roared it. In a stunning rebuke to Bernie Sanders, the Senate steamrolled his effort to block a $20 billion arms sale to Israel, even as images of shattered hospitals and lifeless children pour out of Gaza. With over 43,000 Palestinians reported dead, critics warn Washington is comp… Continues…
As Sanders stood nearly alone on the Senate floor, he framed the vote as a test of America’s conscience: whether the U.S. would keep sending bombs and tank rounds into a war that has already claimed tens of thousands of civilian lives. His resolutions failed by lopsided margins, exposing how deeply rooted bipartisan support for Israel remains, even under the shadow of an unfolding humanitarian catastrophe.