Issue Position: Israel

Issue Position

I oppose Senate Resolution 498 which supported the State of Israel during its widespread and massive bombing and shelling of Gaza. I could not support Senator Merkley as I watched hospitals and schools being bombed, families killed in their homes, mosques destroyed and hundreds of thousands of people made refugees in their own homeland.

While I condemn the rocket attacks of Hamas and acknowledge the special relationship the US and Israel have, I oppose $3 billion in military aid to Israel. I decry the military industrial complex here in the United States, which spends $640 billion dollars annually on weapons of mass destruction and ongoing occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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