Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸<p>Cory Booker spoke for 25 hours and barely mentioned Gaza. That’s no surprise</p><p><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> politicians and the media are focused on our domestic crisis. But we cannot close our eyes to the outside world</p><p>from <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/TheGuardian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheGuardian</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Guardian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Guardian</span></a><br>Judith Levine<br>Tue 8 Apr 2025 08.00 EDT</p><p>"...hours into his 25-hour speech on the Senate floor, the <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Democrat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Democrat</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/CoryBooker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CoryBooker</span></a> uttered the word “Gaza”. He was not talking about the war. He stepped nowhere near the 50,000 Palestinians killed by the Israeli armed forces since 8 October 2023, or the US’s military and political support of the genocide.</p><p>Rather, <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Booker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Booker</span></a> was searching for a particularly ludicrous lie... “There are lies about USAID, like, I don’t know, 5 million condoms going to Gaza or something outrageous,” he said. Considering the other outrageous things <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> has said about <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a> – such as his plan to “clean out” the strip to make room for luxury resorts – the remark felt trivializing."</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/08/democrats-media-trump-gaza" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/commentisfree/</span><span class="invisible">2025/apr/08/democrats-media-trump-gaza</span></a><br> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>press</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/palestine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>palestine</span></a></span><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Palestine</span></a></p>