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Bernie Sanders calls on Congress to block funding to Israel
(www.theguardian.com)
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About time.
Hes been pushing for it for months if not decades.
He was last heard opposing a ceasefire.
Are you sure you're remembering right?
they are remembering right
No. He has not called for an end to the sending of money to Israel. He has stipulated conditions, he’s talked about blocking arm sales, he’s been very weak on the ceasefire demand up until very recently. This is new.
this isnt relevant to whether sanders has pushed for blocking funding to israel
blocking arms sales not being the same as blocking funding is fair, however:
is at least misrepresentative
even if it was in response to specific bills as opposed to a complete and total cut, he has explicitly spoken out against bills funding israel, and saying 'the United States should not be complicit in (the actions of Israel)' in oplosition to a specific bill is still hard to read as anything but a call to cut funding of israel in general
Yeah you're right, this is consistent with his previous position. Supporting calls for a ceasefire would be better and I'm still disappointed he doesn't, but this is still good.
@oakey66@lemmy.world raised the fair point that opposing a weapons deal is not the same as opposing funding
here is a more concrete, applicable example