Why has starving children broken the dam? And how do we never go back?
Starvation is breaking through in a way that bombing and shooting children didn’t.
Starvation is breaking through in a way that bombing and shooting children didn’t. Maybe broken children’s bodies, blown apart, or shot to pieces, look too much like broken dolls for some people to empathize. But we don’t have starving child dolls.
Starvation was stated and enacted as policy, and now 22 months later, the documentation makes it clear: the independent reports tell the story, and the attacks on UNRWA were never about Hamas membership, never about stolen aid.
The real issue: UNRWA was too good at feeding Palestinians in Gaza. You cannot have a starvation campaign when someone is feeding the children.
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Cory Booker wants us to know he's very, very frustrated that Democrats are not showing enough fight.
In the last season of his political theater, Booker had bragged about how he'd limited his food and water prior to his lengthy but morally vacant 25 hour filibuster. Yet even that experience of being deprived of food and water, if only for a few days, not months, still failed to instill even the smallest flash of empathy.
How can you talk for 25 hours and never mention Palestinians? How can you starve yourself for 3 days to create political spectacle but still choose to remain ignorant of, or just callously indifferent toward, those who were borderline starved for decades, and now are being actively starved to death by an Israeli Government that has the total and complete support of the US Government and a huge majority of the Senate.
I simply cannot believe that social media darling Cory Booker has not seen the genocide and starvation on his phone daily. I cannot believe that Cory Booker has not heard the anguished pleas from tens of millions of Jews, including tens if not hundreds of thousands of his Jewish constituents, screaming out “Not in our names,” and “Never again includes Palestinians” until their words are choked by their tears.
Maybe hiding behind other Senators in a photo, he chose to include himself in, with indicted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu is the kind of “fight” Booker expects from his fellow “liberals.” If it is, we can all thank Booker for providing the rest of us the moral clarity of who not to emulate.
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