Pamela: In the hours after Donald Trump declared a two-week ceasefire last week, the Israeli military shocked the world by launching a devastating 10-minute bombing blitz across Lebanon, killing more than 300. Meanwhile, in Gaza, the Israeli government has closed border crossings, cutting off aid and forcing 1.8 million people to desperately search for food.
The horrors will not stop. And ALL of it is enabled by U.S. weapons, including at least $17.9 BILLION in U.S. taxpayer dollars spent on weapons for the Israeli military in the last 20 months alone.
If we’re going to stop the bloodshed, we MUST stop the flow of U.S. weapons — and here’s our chance: votes are scheduled for TODAY on two joint resolutions of disapproval (JRD) introduced by Sen. Bernie Sanders, which would block BILLIONS of dollars in munitions sales and more to the Israeli military.
For them to pass, it will take a powerful coalition of senators willing to stop the U.S. blank check approach. And building that coalition will require all of us speaking out.
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One of Sen. Sanders’ JRDs would block the sale of more than 12,000 BLU–112 1,000-lb bombs — which, if completed, would hand the Israeli government the ability to continue decimating communities from Beirut to Gaza to the West Bank with indiscriminate fire.
Another would halt the sale of nearly $300 million in D9 Caterpillar armored bulldozers, which the Israeli government has used to demolish Palestinian homes in the West Bank and in Lebanon. Amnesty International found that in 2024 and 2025, Israeli forces used them to destroy more than 10,000 civilian homes, buildings, and structures in southern Lebanon.[1]
The Israeli military also, horrifically, used a D9 Caterpillar to kill U.S. peace activist Rachel Corrie in 2003, as she attempted to prevent the destruction of a Palestinian family’s home – a crime for which no one was ever held accountable.
The truth is, we know exactly how these U.S.-made weapons will be used — and we have a moral responsibility to do everything we can to stop these weapons sales.
Fortunately, these JRDs are being introduced at an inflection point, Pamela.
Last summer, we pushed a record 27 senators to vote in favor of halting key weapons transfers to the Israeli government. Right now, with outrage growing over a U.S.-Israeli war on Iran that has killed thousands and caused a global economic catastrophe, and as the Israeli government continues its genocide in Gaza AND threatens annexation in Lebanon and the West Bank — we have a critical opportunity to expand our coalition in the Senate.
It won’t be easy to do, but it’s work we must do to end a horrific era of U.S. complicity in violence committed by the Israeli government. And it can start with you.
“No policy can bring back those taken from us by these actions—children and other loved ones,” Rachel Corrie’s mother, Cindy, wrote in an op-ed published this morning. “But the Senate now has an opportunity to honor the memories of our daughter, other Americans, and thousands of Palestinian civilians killed, and to show that their deaths, and all the destruction, will no longer be condoned and funded.”[2]
Thank you for working for peace,
The Win Without War team
- Amnesty International, “Lebanon: Israeli military’s deliberate destruction of civilian property and land ‘must be investigated as war crimes’”
- The Nation, “Let’s Finally Do Something About the Bulldozer That Killed My Daughter”
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