It only took the deaths of over 30K Palestinians in Gaza, and seven aid workers for democrats to draft a strongly worded letter to the Biden administration over the continued sale of arms to the state of Israel.
Friday, liberal Democrats including former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi joined progressives in urging President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Anthony Blinken to stop transferring weapons to Israel after the rogue country murdered seven aid workers of the World Central Kitchen earlier this week.
The letter which also included the signatures of Reps. Mark Pocan (D-Wisc.), Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) and Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) opened up with the following:
We write to express our shared concern and outrage regarding the recent Israeli airstrike which killed seven World Central Kitchen aid workers, including an American citizen. In light of this incident, we strongly urge you to reconsider your recent decision to authorize the transfer of a new arms package to Israel, and to withhold this and any future offensive arms transfers until a full investigation into the airstrike is completed. 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. We also urge you to withhold these transfers if Israel fails to sufficiently mitigate harm to innocent civilians in Gaza, including aid workers, and if it fails to facilitate – or arbitrarily denies or restricts – the transport and delivery of humanitarian aid into Gaza.
In addition to a halt in arms sales, the letter also calls for an independent probe into the deaths of the seven WCK aid workers stating, “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,” the lawmakers wrote.
Despite any raised eyebrows over any of this from the Democrats, it’s hard to believe there’s any good faith concern over the lives lost since October 7. If there were good faith concern or a genuine disgust over Israel’s indiscriminate bombing of Palenstians locked in an open-air prison the death toll would’ve never made it over 30K. The more probable reason for this letter was poll numbers indicating significant Democratic losses come November.
