Nancy Pelosi Among 40 House Democrats Demanding Biden Halt Weapon Transfers to Israel
Nancy Pelosi Among 40 House Democrats Demanding Biden Halt Weapon Transfers to Israel
AIPAC is losing its grip over the Democratic party.
That’s only true if there is any consequences. So far nothing has actually come about.
He means it used to be pure political suicide for anyone in congress to say a word about not funding and defending Israel no matter what war criminal shit they got up to, and now we have a Palestinian congresswoman who says stuff like “from the river to the sea” and no AIPAC-funded candidate has primaried her yet.
I’ll fully agree with you that it remains to be seen how much of that will turn into anything substantive the US decides to do to stop the killing, but the political landscape is definitely way way different than it used to be.
Call your reps and get them to join into to the demand
40 reps is not enough to make it happen
Particularly when they signed the funding bill,
Israel might have gone one step to far with the world central kitchen killings
We'll see if Biden actually cuts off weapons sales.
Narrator: He did not
José Andrés is one of the most loved people in DC regardless of politics. Fucking with his people is very bad, to put it mildly.
We'll that's interesting. She's as mainstream as Democrats come. I was wondering a few days ago if Israel had had it's Walter Cronkite moment with this strike. I guess I'll be cautiously optimistic for a few days.
Walter Cronkite moment
Could you explain that to me?
https://mwi.westpoint.edu/war-public-opinion-myth-cronkite-moment/
Vietnam war, and Cronkite gave an editorial report that, ostensibly, shifted everyone's opinion on said war.
Are not all these weapon transfers laws that have already been voted on months and even years ago sometimes? Didn't she probably vote for some of these?
The laws include stopping transfers to anyone who the president determines to be interfering with [US] humanitarian aid.
Not quite that simple - authorization was voted on long ago in some cases but it’s up to the executive branch how and when to actually send them. They’re usually approved in big blocks which go out over time on no required-by-law schedule.
I think she probably voted for them back when being for Israel was a way to get votes, and now being for Israel is a way to lose votes, and now she’s alarmed and deeply concerned about the plight of the Palestinian people, all of a sudden. Whatever. If it leads to less support for Israel I’m at least happy that her insider trading ass is on the right side even if only very slightly and only by accident.
I also 100% agree with whoever it was that said call your representatives and encourage them to get on board too.
Did not expect this woman to be in the first 40. She was all in on calling Palestine protestors Chinese and Russian plants.
Pelosi is also a reasonably savvy politician. Even if you look at her as a soulless political monster, she probably sees that American support of Israel has been steadily falling and the Israeli attack on aid workers may be the last straw for a lot of Americans. Therefore, it is imperitive to lay down political cover for Biden to halt military aid transfers to Israel.
Oh she listens to the citizens about things?
Which they absolutely won’t do. But Biden is about to have a tense conversation with Netanyahu…. After which nothing will change
Lol these people were sleeping till now because it was just a bunch of brown people getting murdered en-mass. The moment some white folk died they care.
Not just sleeping.
Pelosi herself accused protesters advocating for this exact thing of being "paid by Putin" back when it was "just" tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians and hundreds of Israel-critical journalists being murdered by the fascist apartheid regime..
True, however, when you're asking for political change you don't refuse the help of politicians switching sides. Especially senior ones, because they may be doing a trial balloon. And if the public refuses them they won't see an upside to continuing that change. Instead they will retreat and focus on their base. So on the off chance this is a real attempt to shift policy we should be nicer to her for a minute. Show the mainstream democrats that we're willing to vote for them if they meet us.
I’ll wait and see if anything actually happens. When Bibi calls their bluff yet again by continuing the genocide with added aid worker deaths and embassy bombings, will he face any actual consequences?
I’m guessing no. This is all theater. The status quo will be maintained at all costs.
Halt transfers until the investigation is completed.
Israel's own investigation, that is.
And starting back up again doesn't even depend on the outcome.
On Reuters they're reporting the representatives also want an American investigation.
Nance is in the right for once. Rare W for Nance.
After being called out on profiting off this genocide, she heroically attempted to repair optics around her
Exactly, she's probably made a huge profit selling her defence contractor shares and now she wants Biden to stop, so the price tanks and she can buy them back again cheap, to sell at the next war
Don't be fooled by her. She's a shark and she smells blood in the water.
Almost, unfortunately:
halt the the transfer of weapons to Israel until a full investigation into the airstrike was completed.
They aren't concerned with the thousands of children in the rubble, just the few white people that were killed.
probably cuts in to her profit margins on the market somehow
Fuck Israel.
This one of those "I'm going against it solely because I know opposing it at this point won't do anything."
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Following the killing of seven World Central Kitchen workers by an Israeli strike while delivering food to Gaza earlier this week, House Democrats wrote a letter on Friday to U.S. President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken urging them to halt the the transfer of weapons to Israel until a full investigation into the airstrike was completed.
The letter, spearheaded by Reps. Mark Pocan, Jim McGovern and Jan Schakowsky, was signed by 40 lawmakers including Nancy Pelosi and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
“If this strike is found to have violated U.S. or international law, we urge you to continue withholding these transfers until those responsible are held accountable.
In a statement to Rolling Stone, a spokesperson for Pelosi said she is “sympathetic to some of the thoughts in the letter, and she feels very strongly that there must be a comprehensive, independent investigation into the horrific killing of the World Central Kitchen heroes,” adding, “Speaker Pelosi knows President Biden’s support for Israel and empathy with the innocent civilians in Gaza, and she respects his judgment in how to proceed.”
The letter also addressed reports that an estimated 32,000 people have been killed in Gaza since October 7, and that the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification initiative (IPC) recently warned that widespread famine is imminent and “expected to occur anytime between now and the next month if there is not an immediate cessation of hostilities.”
We again strongly urge you to withhold any offensive weapons transfers until the investigation into the airstrike is concluded and, if it is found this strike violated U.S. or international law, those responsible are held accountable,” the lawmakers emphasized.
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Biden will do anything that doesn't stop the flow of money to the MIC. I guess taking the money and then NOT giving them weapons is a loophole.
Oh look, Ukraine is right there.
Wonder if lemmy's pro-genocide centrists are gonna start calling Pelosi a Russian now.
Looking over the comments I see absolutely no one that is pro genocide. Pretty much all the viewpoints are sensible: Unanimously anti-Israel, sometimes skeptically approving of Pelosi doing something good for once.
For what reason could you be painting the picture of an outlandish strawman view opposed to your own which doesn’t exist, I wonder
He's clearly upset that people call him a "Russian". It's that simple.
Wish it was my first day on lemmy too. Stick around, you'll see them soon enough
Looking over the comments I see absolutely no one that is pro genocide
I've successfully summoned two so far.
"Wonder if" are the first two words of my comment. I was speculating.
Nah they’ll claim Nancy is voting for Trump.
She should go back to her headquarters in China!
Lmao
Not sure why I got downvoted. She's the one who said it.
I’m guessing she just sold a bunch of Lockheed Martin stock
Hmmhmmm. Shorted that shit.