The chamber fell silent before the numbers flashed on the screen. Bernie Sanders lost, and the bombs will keep flowing. A $20 billion arms deal to Israel survived by a crushing margin, even as images of Gaza’s ruins flood the world. Some called it security. Others called it complicity. The vote split the country, exposed Congress, and left one question burning: when does “allyship” become enabling? As civilian deaths rise past 43,000, Sanders’ warning about U.S. law and moral responsibility hangs in the air, unanswered, unfinished, and unbearably urgen… Continues…The defeat of Sanders’ resolutions was decisive, but the unease they surfaced will not fade quickly. By insisting that Congress confront the human cost of U.S.-supplied weapons, he forced senators to go on record: not just about Israel, but about how far America will go in the name of partnership and power. Supporters of the sale framed it as a lifeline to a vital ally under threat. Opponents saw a blank check for a war already defined by staggering civilian loss and shattered neighborhoods.
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