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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “We cannot be transferring weapons to forces that are engaged…”

Featuring: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democratic | U.S. House, New York, District 14

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The United States played a role in all of this defense destruction to begin with by enabling Benjamin Netanyahu in dropping all of these bombs, by refusing to enforce our own American laws and the Lehi laws on the books, which says that We cannot be transferring weapons to forces that are engaged in gross human rights violations. and we look the other way because we deem them an ally. And you're saying that's not something that you're a criticism that you're just applying to President, President Trump in terms of four years. (1:04:21–1:04:27)

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Asserts that U.S. law prohibits transferring weapons to forces committing human rights violations.

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