Bernie Sanders, prominent Jewish‑American senator and politician
First, we must ensure that Congress does not send another 200billiontocontinuethiswar.Trump’ssupplementalbudgetrequestforthewarinIranmustbedefeated.IwillforceaSenatevotetoblockthenearly200 billion to continue this war. Trump’s supplemental budget request for the war in Iran must be defeated. I will force a Senate vote to block the nearly 1 billion weapons sale to the Israeli military. A government that has committed genocide in Gaza does not need more military support from American taxpayers.
Trump and his partner Netanyahu have started a war with Iran. This war is unconstitutional. This war violates international law. A sovereign nation cannot attack another sovereign nation for whatever reason it chooses.
Since the beginning of this war, 13 American soldiers have been killed and hundreds more wounded. In Iran, nearly 2,000 civilians have been killed and many more injured.
498 schools have been bombed by American and Israeli missiles.
People across the country are asking: when we cannot afford housing, healthcare, food, and more, why was a war with Iran—one that will cost hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars—even started?!
Netanyahu has been seeking a war with Iran for 40 years, and now he has found a U.S. president willing to go along with it.
Sending another 20,000 bombs to a country that has committed genocide in Gaza is not only immoral, but a violation of U.S. law.
Under U.S. law, you cannot sell weapons to a country that has violated international law — and it is clear that Israel has done so.
Given the horrific destruction that Israel’s extremist government has inflicted on Gaza, Iran, and Lebanon, the last thing American taxpayers should be doing right now is supplying Netanyahu’s government with 22,000 new bombs.
No more weapons should be provided to support an ‘illegal war.’
Joseph Kent, a senior counterterrorism official in the Trump administration, recently resigned. He and I disagreed on many things, but he is right: Iran has posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we entered this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.
And it’s not just Iran. It’s Lebanon as well. In less than two weeks, Israel has killed 570 people and displaced 750,000 — more than 10% of the entire country’s population. Residential buildings are being bombed without any prior warning.
The United States cannot continue to be complicit in Netanyahu’s wars.
Bernie SandersSenator
