“Israel has a long and shameful history of desecrating and abusing Palestinian bodies from the state’s earliest days and throughout its existence,” according to Gisha, an Israeli human rights organization.
The vote resulted in some obvious losers, including every pro-Israel and Jewish establishment organization that spent days whipping against the amendment to little avail. Nobody is more identifiable with this camp than AIPAC: Nearly a dozen of the 103 votes came from Democrats it had previously endorsed.
The near total aid blockade Israel has imposed on Palestine is leading to mass deaths and starvation across the population. Gaza residents remain almost entirely dependent on dwindling aid kitchen meals, which continue to provide vital, yet insufficient, emergency relief.
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A senior Iranian official said Tehran privately told Vance the pair were exploiting the negotiations for financial gain. The Trump administration says it never happened.
“Not just Democrats but Republicans. And these young Americans are going to be the future members of Congress, senators and presidents,” Khanna said.
Anna Liedke became the first flotilla activist to talk publicly about rape in Israeli detention. More than a dozen other flotilla members have since reported sexual assault.
The figure refers only to direct war costs — the immediate budgetary costs directly tied to the war, including operations, personnel, and matériel.
The fundamentals won’t change: Iran can threaten Hormuz, The United States can punish Iran, and neither can secure its objectives through force.
Representative Ro Khanna was barred from leaving for 90 minutes, as Israeli soldiers helped the settlers. “We really saw the apartheidlike conditions, the inequality. No American would support this if they knew the details of what was going on here,” Kanna said.