Sanders calls on Biden to enforce Foreign Assistance Act

Bennington Banner WASHINGTON — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) Sunday released the following statement urging President Biden to invoke Section 620I of the Foreign Assistance Act, demand Netanyahu restore humanitarian aid access to Gaza or lose U.S. military assistance to Israel: “Starvation is taking place in Gaza. Israel is prohibiting aid convoys from delivering desperately needed food and water. This is

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Bernie Sanders Slams Biden’s ‘Totally Absurd’ Israel Policy: ‘You Can’t Reconcile It’

By: Marco Margaritoff; The Huffington Post The senator said Friday that “this wholesale slaughter” of Palestinians “makes my stomach turn” and urged the U.S. to stop funding it. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) isn’t biting his tongue concerning U.S. policy toward Israel. The progressive senator has continued to support President Joe Biden on his campaign for re-election, but made an impassioned appearance Friday on “Alex Wagner

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Sanders pushes harder for Gaza cease-fire: ‘Not another nickel for Netanyahu’

By: Lauren Irwin; The Hill Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is pushing harder for a cease-fire in Gaza and demands that the United States send “not another nickel” to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “My view, not another nickel for Netanyahu’s government if he’s going to continue this wholesale slaughter of the Palestinian people,” Sanders told MSNBC’s Alex Wagner Friday. Sanders’ declaration comes just

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$400,000 Per Missile? Sanders Rips War Profiteers ‘Fleecing’ US Taxpayers

By: Brett Wilkins; Common Dreams “Congress must put an end to this form of corporate welfare,” the senator said, arguing that one new way to do that involves reviving an old policy. U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders has a novel way to stop military-industrial complex profiteers from “bilking the American people”—and it’s actually over 80 years old. In an article published Tuesday in The Atlantic, Sanders

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“I Will Be Damned if I’m Going to Give Another Nickel to the Netanyahu Government”

By John Nichols; The Nation Bernie Sanders and two Senate colleagues defined a new standard for foreign aid packages: No more complicity with Israel’s assault on Gaza. Shortly before dawn on Tuesday, the US Senate approved a $95 billion “emergency” international military spending bill, which included $14 billion in new military assistance for the Israeli government as it continues its massive assault

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