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To: U.S. Senate
Will You Help Block Billions Worth of Weapons Bound for the Israeli Government?
To members of the 118th Senate:
Multiple joint resolutions of disapproval (JRDs) that together, would BLOCK $20 billion worth of weapons currently bound for the Israeli government were recently introduced by Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Peter Welch (VT), and Jeff Merkley (D-OR).
The weapons in this package include those that have been used over and over again to target civilians in Gaza and Lebanon. I urge you to support this urgently needed legislation and help end U.S. complicity in Israeli PM Netanyahu’s devastating violence. If you’re already doing so, I thank you and implore that you maintain this crucially needed commitment.
Multiple joint resolutions of disapproval (JRDs) that together, would BLOCK $20 billion worth of weapons currently bound for the Israeli government were recently introduced by Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Peter Welch (VT), and Jeff Merkley (D-OR).
The weapons in this package include those that have been used over and over again to target civilians in Gaza and Lebanon. I urge you to support this urgently needed legislation and help end U.S. complicity in Israeli PM Netanyahu’s devastating violence. If you’re already doing so, I thank you and implore that you maintain this crucially needed commitment.
Why is this important?
The Israeli military has recently dropped bombs on targets across Lebanon, Palestine, Yemen, Syria, and beyond. Hundreds of people have been killed, thousands injured, and over one million were displaced in the past few weeks alone.
For over a year now, the Netanyahu government has used U.S. weapons to push an entire region to the brink of a devastating, all-out war while failing to bring home the hostages. Bombs like Boeing’s Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAMs), Lockheed Martin-made F-35 fighter jets, and General Dynamics’ 2,000-lb “bunker busters”.
If the cycle deepens, millions more lives will be at risk.
Despite this looming threat and the incomprehensible levels of human suffering we’ve seen so far, the Biden administration is moving forward with new massive sales of offensive weapons, including some of the very weapons the IDF is already using to devastate communities across the region.
That’s why what’s happening right now is crucial: Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Peter Welch (D-VT), and Jeff Merkley (D-OR), have filed multiple joint resolutions of disapproval (JRDs) that together, would BLOCK $20 billion worth of weapons currently bound for the Israeli government.
It’s all coming to a head in just a few weeks and it means our work to build the kind of grassroots power to send every senator a signal to support this legislation is already starting — and we need everyone speaking out now.
For over a year now, the Netanyahu government has used U.S. weapons to push an entire region to the brink of a devastating, all-out war while failing to bring home the hostages. Bombs like Boeing’s Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAMs), Lockheed Martin-made F-35 fighter jets, and General Dynamics’ 2,000-lb “bunker busters”.
If the cycle deepens, millions more lives will be at risk.
Despite this looming threat and the incomprehensible levels of human suffering we’ve seen so far, the Biden administration is moving forward with new massive sales of offensive weapons, including some of the very weapons the IDF is already using to devastate communities across the region.
That’s why what’s happening right now is crucial: Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Peter Welch (D-VT), and Jeff Merkley (D-OR), have filed multiple joint resolutions of disapproval (JRDs) that together, would BLOCK $20 billion worth of weapons currently bound for the Israeli government.
It’s all coming to a head in just a few weeks and it means our work to build the kind of grassroots power to send every senator a signal to support this legislation is already starting — and we need everyone speaking out now.