Akbar Shahid Ahmed is the Senior Diplomatic Correspondent for HuffPost, based in Washington, D.C. He can be reached at [email protected]. A native Pakistani, Akbar has reported from around the globe. He is presently writing a book on the Biden administration's role in the Gaza war for W. W. Norton.
The Biden administration is aggressively pushing senators to bless continued U.S. weapons shipments for Israel ahead of a first-of-its-kind vote in Congress on the policy, HuffPost has learned ― and administration officials are suggesting lawmakers who vote against the arms are empowering American and Israel i foes from Iran to the militant groups Hamas and Hezbollah, which the U.S. treats as terror organizations.
The document additionally appears to endorse continued fighting despite the administration’s public narrative that it is seeking settlements to end the deadly Israeli military campaigns in Gaza and Lebanon.“Now is the time to focus pressure on Hamas to release the hostages and stop the war,” it reads, referring to the more than 100 hostages who the Palestinian armed group continues to hold after they were captured during its brutal Oct. 7, 2023, attack inside Israel.
In Lebanon, the document adds, a prospective truce “is only possible because of the military pressure Hezbollah is under.” But the vote represents the first time ever that Congress is even considering barring an arms shipment for Israel. And coming in the dying days of the Biden presidency, with lawmakers free of the pressure of an imminent election, it represents a chance for Democratic senators to symbolically break with their party leader’s policy.
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