Unanimous support: Senate votes on resolution to support apartheid Israel
NOVANEWS
By Aya Salem
On June 5 the Senate unanimously passed a resolution putting pressure on Trump to move the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, one of the promises of his far-right campaign. This resolution demonstrates their support for a larger plan to make Jerusalem the capital of the State of Israel and to encroach further and further into Palestinian lands and sovereignty.
The resolution was voted on the 50th anniversary of the 6-day war of 1967, or what the Palestinian people call the “Naksa.” The tragic date commemorates the ethnic cleansing of 250,000 Palestinians and the occupation of the West Bank, Gaza, the illegal annexation of East Jerusalem, and the invasion of the Egyptian Sinai and the Syrian Golan Heights.
This act of Israeli aggression is instea...