Weapons sale to Israel continues, as US Senate votes down effort to withhold weapons

 

A bill that targets to block a US weapons sale to Israel has been rejected by the United States Senate.

The resolution to stop the sales of tanks meant a defeat by failing to advance in a 79 to 18 vote on Wednesday, with progressives and mainstream Democratic senators backing the effort.

Two more decisions to stop the sales of other weapons also met with a dead end after winning no more than 20 votes.

Ever since the introduction of the so-called Joint Resolutions of Disapproval (JRDs) by Senator Bernie Sanders in September to oppose a $20bn weapons deal approved by the Biden administration.

This became the first time ever that a weapons sale to Israel was subjected to such a vote.