How would you vote on tabling the Senate resolution to investigate Israeli human rights abuses

[Dr. MB]

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/01/16/congress/sanders-israel-push-senate-human-rights-gaza-fails-00135935

Here's the full resolution: https://www.sanders.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/HLA2314621.pdf

Remember the vote is to table the resolution, so if you support the resolution you should be voting no.

[mileslunn]

An emphatic no as I suspect will be case.

[GeneralMacArthur]

Is there any precedent for the State Department doing a highly-granular audit of another country's military practices, down to the level of individual units and individual commands?  Among other issues, this doesn't seem tractable to actually do.  The IDF does not answer to the U.S. State Department.

[Dr. MB]

Is there any precedent for the State Department doing a highly-granular audit of another country's military practices, down to the level of individual units and individual commands?  Among other issues, this doesn't seem tractable to actually do.  The IDF does not answer to the U.S. State Department.

Don't you think it's pretty important when the U.S. is unreservedly funding Israel's military campaign, to make sure that money isn't being used for human rights abuses right?

[GeneralMacArthur]

Is there any precedent for the State Department doing a highly-granular audit of another country's military practices, down to the level of individual units and individual commands?  Among other issues, this doesn't seem tractable to actually do.  The IDF does not answer to the U.S. State Department.

Don't you think it's pretty important when the U.S. is unreservedly funding Israel's military campaign, to make sure that money isn't being used for human rights abuses right?

I think that's something the State Department is already monitoring and has spoken about publicly on many different occasions, and this bill would only be overriding the State Department's methods for doing this with how the senators sponsoring it think the State Department should be going about things -- namely, in an extremely tedious and granular fashion that would not actually be feasible in real life.

But if we can all be honest here, this is a show bill that was not written to pass.  It was written to create talking points like exactly the one you're offering up.