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May 19th, 2021 
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The two-page joint resolution of disapproval seeks to cancel the sale of Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAM) and Small Diameter Bombs, which was green-lit by the State Department earlier this month, prior to the outbreak of hostilities with Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
“The United States should not be rubber-stamping weapons sales to the Israeli government as they deploy our resources to target international media outlets, schools, hospitals, humanitarian missions and civilian sites for bombing,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted on Wednesday. “We have a responsibility to protect human rights.”
The United States should not be rubber-stamping weapons sales to the Israeli government as they deploy our resources to target international media outlets, schools, hospitals, humanitarian missions and civilian sites for bombing.We have a responsibility to protect human rights. https://t.co/OctBNYFpwp
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) May 19, 2021
“It is long past time to end the US policy of unconditional military arms sales, particularly to governments that have violated human rights,” says an email from Ocasio-Cortez’s office to her colleagues in the House, obtained by the outlet Jewish Currents. AOC, as the congresswoman is known, has also urged her online followers to email and call their representatives in the House and the Senate and urge them to back this push.
GREAT NEWS. Big thanks to AOC and others in Congress who are trying to block $735 million in new weapons for Israel https://t.co/hQqYO3Zu5t
— Medea Benjamin (@medeabenjamin) May 19, 2021
The resolution was co-sponsored by Democrats Mark Pocan of Wisconsin, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, Cori Bush of Missouri, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, and Betty McCollum and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota.
In a separate statement, Omar said it would be “appalling” to sell weapons to Israel “without any strings attached,” and that the sale would be “seen as a green light for continued escalation and will undercut any attempts at brokering a ceasefire.”
However, the resolution is a long shot at this point, as it has to clear the House Foreign Affairs Committee and get a floor vote by May 20 to meet the statutory 15-day deadline. Congress was briefed on the sale in April and formally notified on May 5. There were no objections from either the Democrats or the Republicans at the time.
“There were no objections at the time by the Democratic and Republican leaders of the congressional foreign affairs committees that review such sales, aides said.” pic.twitter.com/8xDjxUhnQe
— sameera khan 🇵🇸 (@SameeraKhan) May 19, 2021
Only if a senator takes up the resolution would it stand a chance of being heard. Even so, a majority of Democrats and Republicans have been outspoken in support for Israel.
In a telephone conversation on Wednesday, US President Joe Biden told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that “he expected a significant de-escalation today on the path to a ceasefire,” White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters.
Shortly afterward, however, Netanyahu said he was “determined to continue this operation until its objective is achieved – to restore quiet and security” to the citizens of Israel.
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