U.S. Democratic senator Elizabeth Warren says Washington needs to stop “writing a blank check” for Israel since the regime continues to demonstrate “an appalling disregard for Palestinian lives” in the Gaza Strip.
Warren denounced on Thursday the administration of President Joe Biden for unconditionally providing military aid to Israel, whose military forces have killed more than 22,600 people — 70 percent of whom children and women — since October 7th.
“When it comes to military aid to Israel, the US cannot write a blank check for a right-wing government that’s demonstrated an appalling disregard for Palestinian lives,” wrote the senator. “The U.S. should use all the tools at its disposal to condition aid & move the parties toward a lasting peace.”
Warren became one of the highest-profile Democrats to demand no further aid to the regime, after Senator Bernie Sanders said the U.S. needs to stop being complicit in war crimes against the Palestinians in Gaza. In a statement on Tuesday, Sanders said Israel’s response to Operation Al-Aqsa Storm — carried out by Hamas resistance movement on October 7 — has been “grossly disproportionate, immoral, and in violation of international law.” He noted that Biden’s administration “must no longer be complicit in destroying the lives of innocent men, women, and children in Gaza.”
The Israeli killing machine has continued its assault on the besieged Gaza Strip, with the regime forces boasting about how they have struck 300 targets in 24 hours, which included a series of hospitals and homes. The senator urged Congress on Tuesday to reject the $10 billion in unconditional military aid being considered for the regime to continue its “brutal war” against the Palestinian people.
“Let me be clear: NO MORE U.S. funding for (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu’s illegal, immoral, brutal and grossly disproportionate war against the Palestinian people.”
Sanders said that Americans must understand that Israel’s war against the Palestinian people has been significantly waged with U.S. bombs, artillery shells and other forms of weaponry. “And the results have been catastrophic.”
Despite being under growing pressure both domestically and abroad over his administration’s “unshakable” support for his ally, Netanyahu, President Biden has made it clear that he has no plans to place conditions on military support for Tel Aviv. Since the onset of the genocidal war on Gaza, his administration has supplied Israel with more than 10,000 tons of military equipment.
