Chicago City Council declares solidarity with Israel at chaotic meeting
CHICAGO -- The Chicago City Council on Friday approved a resolution declaring solidarity with Israel, and condemning a brutal attack by Hamas over the weekend, after pro-Palestinian protesters angrily disrupted the proceedings.Ald.
Even before aldermen could begin debating Silverstein's proposal, the council spent nearly 20 minutes arguing over whether they could even vote on the matter on Friday, since it had just been introduced at the start of the meeting. Johnson had ruled that aldermen needed a two-thirds majority to suspend the council's normal rules to vote on the resolution, but was overruled by a simple majority vote.'It shouldn't be hard to condemn terrorism.
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