Gaza Crisis: US senate votes down resolution to halt arms sales to Israel Late Wednesday night, the US Senate once again blocked a Bernie Sanders-led effort to end certain weapons sales to Israel, which is currently starving 2 million Palestinians. The resolutions, brought by Vermont independent Senator Sanders, and Democratic Senators Jeff Merkley (Ore.) and Peter Welch (V.T.) called to stop two tranches of weapons sales: Senate Joint Resolution 34 – To prohibit the US-taxpayer financed $675.7 million sale of 201 MK 83 1,000-pound bombs; 4,799 BLU-110A/B General Purpose 1,000-pound bombs; 1,500...