US politicians and the media are focused on our domestic crisis. But we cannot close our eyes to the outside world<\/p>\n
Seven and three-quarters hours into his 25-hour speech<\/a> on the Senate floor, the New Jersey Democrat Cory Booker uttered the word \u201cGaza\u201d. <\/em>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\u2019s military and political support of the genocide.<\/p>\n Rather, Booker was searching for a particularly ludicrous lie from a presidential administration that has told thousands. \u201cThere are lies about USAID, like, I don\u2019t know, 5 million condoms going to Gaza or something outrageous,\u201d he said. Considering the other outrageous things Trump has said about Gaza \u2013 such as his plan to \u201cclean out\u201d<\/a> the strip to make room for luxury resorts \u2013 the remark felt trivializing.<\/p>\n Judith Levine is a Brooklyn journalist and essayist, a contributing writer to the Intercept and the author of five books<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" US politicians and the media are focused on our domestic crisis. But we cannot close our eyes to the outside world Seven and three-quarters hours into his 25-hour speech on the Senate floor, the New Jersey Democrat Cory Booker uttered the word \u201cGaza\u201d. He was not talking about the war. He stepped nowhere near the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}