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Fetterman opposes Biden’s move to suspend arms sales to Israel and should be condemned.

“Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman, a staunch supporter of Israel, said he disagreed with Biden’s plan to withhold some arms shipments to Israel and warned that the move “shows Hamas that it is winning the public relations war .” “ CNN quote

(NOTE: Most of the reaction to the original post below focused on my statement that I would not be voting for Fetterman. While this is a personal reaction, it is based on the feeling of disgust I felt when I made the comment on CNN, my true goal was not to prevent a future hypothetical vote against him. Rather, I think the more important point is that those who consider themselves progressives, or simply those fellow citizens of the world who do With the well-being of all people at heart, Fetterman’s rejection of Biden’s threat to stop arms sales is appalling and essentially says “enough is enough,” especially considering that Biden was on the political right of the party and was very supportive of Biden’s Israel Denouncing any attempt to put an end to this humanitarian horror show shows a complete insensitivity to human suffering. In hindsight, I would have preferred to have written it differently, but I had a strong emotional reaction to his comment. I said Fetterman was dead to me and said his position should be denounced (by people with open minds and open hearts).)

Having said that, Fetterman is dead to me; I wouldn’t vote for him again, if he’s up for re-election I just won’t vote for a senator (hopefully he has a true Democrat as his primary opponent). For me, this is crossing a moral red line. The entire world except the United States has recognized that Israel’s brutal overreaction to Hamas’s condemnable attack is essentially a war crime. Numerous aid organizations emphasize that the suffering of the civilian population is unprecedented. The United States stood alone in this regard, against the superiority of the civilized world, and suffered a severe blow to the moral high ground it still possesses. Now Biden is finally standing up to Netanyahu, where he has apparently been working behind the scenes to get Israel to act in a humane manner, and Fetterman is too deaf, stupid and blind to stand behind him, taking a position that which is certainly opposed by a strong majority of those who voted for him. Just completely unacceptable. Fetterman a HUGE disappointment.