On paper, it was a defeat: The US Senate voted against two resolutions that would have blocked US sales of bombs and bulldozers to Israel. But if you only read the result, you missed the actual message. In the bulldozer vote, 40 of the Democratic bloc’s 47 lawmakers voted in favor – the largest number ever to vote for such a move. Bernie Sanders called for an end to Israel’s settlement policy and Gaza occupation. The 84-year-old was for a long time one of the few Palestine supporters in the Senate. Today he is no longer alone in his criticism of Israel – surveys also show that.
