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Rep. Rashida Tlaib: “But Palestinians are not just numbers. Behind these numbers are real people — mothers, fathers, sons, daughters — who have had their lives stolen from them and their families torn apart. And we should not be trying to hide it. These are innocent children and babies who have been bombed in their tents, burned alive, dismembered and deliberately starved to death. Where is our shared humanity in this chamber? There is so much anti-Palestinian racism in this chamber that my colleagues don’t even want to acknowledge that Palestinians exist at all, not when they’re alive and now not even when they’re dead. It’s absolutely disgusting. This is genocide denial.”

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[–] mercano@lemmy.world 67 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I dug up the roll call for this vote, if anyone wants to look up how their representative voted.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 29 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

Let me guess where most of the yay votes came from...

Edit: checked and surprise! Most Aaye votes are Republican. Only actual surprise is that there are 62 Democrats in there who should spend a week in Gaza to understand what they really really votes for.

[–] LotrOrc@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

Most of NY, NJ, and CA reps

Wonder where AIPAC spent all their money bribing and buying politicians

[–] delirious_owl@discuss.online 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Democrats are war profiters. They know what's going on, and they know it brings big bucks to their corporate sponsors.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] delirious_owl@discuss.online 1 points 3 months ago

Click the link at the top and see who voted to silence the numbers from Gaza...

[–] Zeratul@lemmus.org 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

How did so many vote yes for this? Mine didn't, but that's kind of a no brainer given their constituency.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 months ago

The American Empire requires a foothold in the Middle East, simple as that, really.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

i'm somewhat happy that mine didn't either

[–] Thunderbird4@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Shame to see Colin Allred voted yea. He’s the only hope we have to unseat Ted Cruz this year.