{"id":3349,"date":"2017-06-15T18:37:15","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T16:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.actvism.org\/?p=3349"},"modified":"2020-11-06T17:48:54","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T16:48:54","slug":"us-senat-saudi-arabien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/opinions\/us-senat-saudi-arabien\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Votes to Approve $500M Sale of Precision-Guided Munitions to Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row justify-content-md-center\">\n<div class=\"col-md-8 pb-3\">\n<p><strong>Senate Votes to Approve $500M Sale of Precision-Guided Munitions to Saudi Arabia<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&#8220;On Capitol Hill on the 13th of June 2017, the Senate voted 53 to 47 to approve the sale of $500 million in precision-guided munitions to Saudi Arabia. A surprising number of senators voted against the deal, amid increasing concerns about the U.S.-backed, Saudi-led war in Yemen, which has killed more than 10,000 people and included devastating attacks on civilians that human rights groups say may constitute war crimes.&#8221; [1]<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source of News:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. 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A surprising number of senators voted against the deal, amid increasing concerns about the U.S.-backed, Saudi-led war in Yemen, which has killed more than 10,000 people and included devastating attacks on civilians that human rights groups say may constitute war crimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,886],"tags":[],"channel":[],"class_list":["post-3349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest","category-opinions"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.0","language":"en","enabled_languages":["de","en"],"languages":{"de":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true}}},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>US-Senat stimmt dem Verkauf von pr\u00e4zisionsgelenkter Munition an Saudi-Arabien im Wert von $500,000,000 zu<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/opinions\/us-senat-saudi-arabien\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Senate Votes to Approve $500M Sale of Precision-Guided Munitions to Saudi Arabia - 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