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Vetoed the UN resolution for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza

Asked Congress to approve the sale of 45,000 shells for Israel's Merkava tanks for use in its offensive against Hamas in Gaza

Sent $14.5 billion in military aid to Israel

Met with Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and said to him "I don't believe you have to be a Jew to be a Zionist, and I am a Zionist."

Publicly said that he saw the Israeli beheaded babies and then had to take it back since it was debunked

Approved a $320 million 320 for precision-guided bomb equipment for Israel

Defended the raid of Al Shifa hospital where thousands of injured and displaced civilians were sheltering

Said he had no reason to believe the Palestinian death toll was correct because he believed the source was unreliable despite the Health Ministry being recognized as a valid source

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"There may not be, you know, as much humanity in the world as one would like to see, but there is some. There's more than one would think. In any case, if you...if you break faith with what you know...that's a betrayal of many, many, many, many people. I may know six people, but that's enough. Love has never been a popular movement and no-one's ever wanted really to be free. The world is held together, really it is, held together, by the love and the passion of a very few people. Otherwise, of course you can despair. Walk down the street of any city, any afternoon, and look around you. What you've got to remember is what you're looking at is also you. Everyone you're looking at is also you. You could be that person, you could be that monster, you could be that cop. And you have to decide in yourself not to be."

Rashida Tlaib speaking in Congress, her last speech yesterday about the crimes against the Palestinian people before the House censured her.

“71% of Michigan Democrats support a ceasefire. So you can try to censure me, but you can’t silence their voices.”

I hear the voices of advocates in Israel, in Palestine, across America, and around the world for peace. I am inspired by the courageous survivors in Israel who have lost loved ones, yet are calling for a ceasefire and the end to violence. I am grateful to the people in the streets, for the peace movement, with countless Jewish Americans across the country, standing up and lovingly saying “Not in Our Name.”

[a TikTok stitched video starts with someone commenting on how to leave comments for the president, saying "Hi I'm Adam". The volume is off for this section of the video. From there, the video cuts to a different person, who speaks the following transcribed sections. Emphasis mine.]

As someone who used to answer these phone calls for two different federal representatives, let me tell you how to make sure your phone calls are making the most impact possible.

So, as cathartic as it may feel to give this long & passionate speech about why you're saying what you're saying, it's not gonna really make a difference. The most impactful thing you can do is to call over & over & over again.

At the end of the day in a representative's office, everyone who receives these phone calls from constituents will keep a tally of how many calls they get on any given issue & the representative will only see the number of calls (& maybe a few stand-out comments). For the most part, it's just the number of calls.

So, the best thing you can do is call again & again & again — keep it short so you can do it more rapidly. I would also consider skipping saying your name because if they figure out it's you making the same calls over & over & over again, they might stop counting your calls but if they're not sure if you're the same person, they'll count it.

So for example, when I'm calling about Gaza, I'm saying: "I would like to call & leave a comment with my representative strongly opposing the US's relations with Israel & standing in strong solidarity with Palestine, asking that my representative do the same." & just say that.

You can change it a little bit, just say it over & over & over again. Because the more calls the office gets, the more pressure that representative feels. They're just looking at numbers.