To be specific: Sens. Martin Heinrich (D-NM), Mazie Hirono (D-HI), Tim Kaine (D-VA), Angus King (I-ME), Ed Markey (D-MA), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Brian Schatz (D-HI), Tina Smith (D-MN), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Peter Welch (D-VT), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ben Ray Lujan (D-NM), Rafael Warnock (D-GA) and Chris Murphy (D-CT).
Yikes, what a rogues gallery! This unethical group voted for three resolutions submitted by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) seeking to block transfers of crucial weaponry to Israel. Their logic is the same as the Hamas-supporting student protestor who harassed Jewish students on campuses across the country, as well as the anti-Semites who dominate the United Nations. let’s listen to the career-long ethics dunce, Senator Durbin. “This war must end,” Durbin said in a statement after the vote. “Israel’s strategy of deadly attacks on and near civilian populations must end as well. The United States should not be sending arms and ammunition that continue to take the lives of innocent people. It is time for real humanitarian aid to reach the Palestinian people. I will stand by Israel, but I will not support the devastation of Gaza and the deaths of thousands of innocent Palestinians.”
Palestinians are no more innocent of the terrorist attacks against Israel than the citizens of Germany and Japan were of the war-mongering of their governments. The war being fought by Israel “must end” when that nation is no longer a target for genocide by Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran. It is astounding that the same party whose President is risking World War III by escalating the Ukrainian conflict is pressuring a loyal ally and a true democracy (the Ukrainian government is still a somewhat shaky republic) to forgo a just and necessary war in the interest of its survival.
No Republicans voted for the resolutions, and even the Biden White House, like a stopped clock, was right this time: “Disapproving arms purchases for Israel at this moment would … put wind in the sails of Iran, Hezbollah, and Hamas at the worst possible moment,” it told the Democratic Senate contingent.
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The International Court of Justice put out an ‘arrest warrant’ for Benjamin Nettanyahu, thus proving what a useless organization it is.
No kidding. What a nasty joke that outfit is.
Ridiculously Dutch. We peddled around Den Hague when we were in The Netherlands for three years. It was creepy just looking at the “court’s” buildings. It’s pretentious, pompous, and ineffectual at best. Malign at its worst. Much like the people of the nation who harbor the place. Assholes when it comes to international affairs. The Dutch should have been left to the NAZIs rather than being liberated at great cost, particularly to the Canadian troops who bore the brunt of the liberation.
And of course, the efficient, obsequious Dutch helped the NAZI’s locate all the Jews living in the country so eighty thousand or so of them could be shipped off to the death camps and murdered. What a surprise they’re anti-Israel.
Some of them did, but not all of them. There were Poles who ratted out their Jewish neighbors, too, just as there was those who didn’t. The level of resistance against the Nazis in Holland was such that it helped contribute to the notorious Hunger Winter through which Audrey Hepburn lived; hence her tiny frame. The Germans retaliated against the country that their own racial ideology claimed were their near-cousins.
If you watch the movie or read the book, “A Bridge Too Far”, the majority of the Dutch were delirious at their liberation by the Allies. Yes, there were Dutch traitors and quislings, as there were in all the countries the Nazis occupied.
It was initially the British XXX Corps that liberated Antwerp, although the Canadians did have the nasty job of clearing the Scheldt estuary after Market Garden.
The airborne assault on Nijmegen, Arnhem, and the Rhine included two full divisions of American paratroops and a brigade of Polish paratroopers. There were a lot of men who fought and died to liberate Holland. And the Dutch resistance were very helpful during that battle.
After Market Garden, the Nazis retaliated viciously against the Dutch — that, I believe, is the Hunger Winter A M was referring to. The rest of the Netherlands was not liberated until the spring of 1945 during the final offensive into Germany.
Aside: It’s always amazed me that the film of “A Bridge Too Far” is such a mess despite being modeled after “The Longest Day,’ which is so much better. The movie just doesn’t hang together or have any consistent drive…although being about a botch rather than a success, its subject was tougher. The cast is almost as impressive as the Longest Day” cast. Maybe it needed John Wayne….
It is a fascinating subject that continues to provoke strong reactions.
To this day, people argue vehemently about the battle, and especially who is to blame for the defeat.
But was it Pickett or Longstreet, when asked who was to blame for the Gettysburg loss, reported said, “I think the Yankees might have had something to do with it’. In this instance, the Germans.
And didn’t that lunatic Jack Smith make his name there? Sheesh.
Israel is not a participant state in the ICJ, so good luck with the Court enforcing its arrest warrant.
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