On Wednesday, the Senate decisively voted down three resolutions introduced by Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) that sought to block a major arms deal with Israel.
The Vermont senator had aimed to prevent the delivery of $20 billion worth of military supplies, including tank rounds, mortar rounds, and Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAMs). Sanders cited what he called “unacceptable civilian death and harm” in Gaza as his reason for opposing the deal.
Although the arms sale had already been approved by Congress, the vote provided an opportunity to gauge Democratic support in the Senate for the Biden-Harris administration’s approach to Israel’s war with Hamas.

President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday named Brendan Carr, the senior Republican on the Federal Communications Commission, as the new chairman of the agency tasked with regulating broadcasting, telecommunications and broadband. Carr is a longtime member of the commission and served previously as the FCC’s general counsel. He has been unanimously confirmed by the Senate three times and was nominated by both Trump and President Joe Biden to the commission. The FCC is an independent agency that is overseen by Congress, but Trump has suggested he wanted to bring it under tighter White House control, in part to use the agency to punish TV networks that cover him in a way he doesn’t like. Carr has of late embraced Trump’s ideas about social media and tech.

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara and State Attorney Amit Aisman made a rare appearance in the Knesset on Monday and several MKs and bereaved parents utilized the opportunity to tell the Attorney-General exactly what they think of her and demand she resign. Baharav-Miara only appeared in the Knesset after Simcha Rothman, the chairman of the Knesset Constitution Committee, demanded that she does so, as mandated by law. The government has been trying to advance measures against the soaring crime and murder rate in the Arab-Israeli sector but Baharav-Miara refuses to support the government, thwarting it from passing a bill to allow the use of spyware against organized crime unless it uses it against white-collar crimes as well [which would face separate legal issues].

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.