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The chamber didn\u2019t just say no. It roared it. As Bernie Sanders stood nearly alone, the Senate crushed his attempt to halt a $20 billion arms sale to Israel\u2014while images of pulverized hospitals and dead children bled across the world. With over 43,000 Palestinians reportedly killed, critics say Washington is complicit in a moral disas\u2026 Continues\u2026<\/p>\n
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Bernie Sanders\u2019 defeat was never just about a single arms package. It exposed, in brutal clarity, how insulated U.S. foreign policy remains from the human cost of its decisions. Senators invoked \u201csecurity\u201d and \u201calliance\u201d as shattered neighborhoods and mass graves in Gaza filled television screens, insisting that questioning the flow of weapons was somehow a betrayal, not a duty. For many Americans, that logic rang hollow.<\/p>\n
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Instead, the vote crystallized a darker truth: that the language of values and human rights often collapses the moment it collides with entrenched geopolitical loyalties. Sanders\u2019 lonely stand forced the country to look directly at the gap between what it claims to defend abroad and what it is willing to tolerate in its name. The question now lingers over Washington like smoke: if this isn\u2019t enough to change course, what ev\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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