{"id":71694,"date":"2026-04-14T13:57:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T18:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/14\/bernie-sanders-aims-to-block-sale-of-bombs-and-bulldozers-to-israel-accusing-us-ally-of-genocide\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T13:57:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T18:57:17","slug":"bernie-sanders-aims-to-block-sale-of-bombs-and-bulldozers-to-israel-accusing-us-ally-of-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/14\/bernie-sanders-aims-to-block-sale-of-bombs-and-bulldozers-to-israel-accusing-us-ally-of-genocide\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernie Sanders aims to block sale of bombs and bulldozers to Israel, accusing US ally of ‘genocide’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sen. Bernie Sanders<\/a>, I-Vt., is aiming to block the sale of bombs and bulldozers to Israel.<\/p>\n

“This week, I will be forcing a vote on legislation to block the sale of nearly half a billion dollars worth of bombs and bulldozers to the Israeli military,” he said in a Monday post<\/a> on X.<\/p>\n

The left-wing lawmaker accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s<\/a> government of perpetrating “genocide.”<\/p>\n

IRAN’S SUPREME LEADER SEVERELY DISFIGURED BY US STRIKES: REPORT<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

“The extremist Netanyahu government that has committed genocide in Gaza does not need more military support from American taxpayers,” Sanders said in the post.<\/p>\n

In a Tuesday post on another X account, Sanders asserted, “This week, I will be forcing a vote to block nearly $500 million in bombs and bulldozers to Israel.\u00a0 Enough is enough.”<\/p>\n

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“U.S. taxpayers must not keep funding the Netanyahu\u00a0government\u2019s mass killing and displacement of civilians in Gaza, Iran and Lebanon,” he added.<\/p>\n

Sanders introduced joint resolutions last month to prohibit the sales of bulldozers<\/a> and bombs<\/a> to Israel.<\/p>\n

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The U.S. and Israel<\/a> recently worked together to bombard the Islamic Republic of Iran for over a month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., is aiming to block the sale of bombs and bulldozers to Israel. “This week, I will be forcing a vote on legislation to block the sale of nearly half a billion dollars worth of bombs and bulldozers to the Israeli military,” he said in a Monday post on X. The left-wing … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}