Senator Cory Booker (Image from YouTube)
By Walt Zlotow
On Monday, New Jersey Senator Cory Booker filibustered the Trump assault on American democracy for 25 hours. He’s being lauded by Democrats, progressives and those terrified by the deranged Trump agenda.
One of Booker’s soundbites being heralded is “This isn’t about a left or right moment. It’s about a right and wrong moment.”
Alas, Booker didn’t spend 25 minutes, not even 25 seconds on the critically important right or wrong moment he got to vote on 3 days later. Like he did last November, Booker joined all but 15 of his Democratic colleagues to vote down Bernie Sanders 2 Senate Joint Resolutions to quash the latest tranche of $8.8 billion in genocide weapons the US is sending to Israel.
In so doing Booker destroyed every vestige of his claim to represent responsible governance. Booker knows Israel is committing genocide in Gaza in their quest to kill or remove every one of the 2,300,000 Palestinians (less the hundred thousand or so already dead) from Gaza to add to Greater Israel. He knows the genocide would be impossible without the roughly $30 billion in US weapons Israel uses to wipe out every vestige of life in Gaza.
Senator Booker’s astonishing filibuster has likely vaulted him near the top of potential 2028 Democratic presidential candidates. And to remain viable, Booker has booked support from the most critical element of US electoral viability… the Israel Lobby.
Walt Zlotow
West Suburban Peace Coalition
Glen Ellyn IL
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The Filth, evil, iniquity, aggressive righteous supremacist vanity of egofixation, in the abrahamic religious superstition blocs is disgusting. Nothing much is worse in all history than this murdering, thieving, occupying, grabbing, taking, humiliating, enslaving, coercing, reducing, by the carriers of perverted corrupt nonreasoning violence, activated by attitudes in this range of superstitions. Clearly, there is no such god and nobody has seen one. There is no proof, no photo, fingerprint, DNA evidence, CIA or FBI file, no confessions, nothing ever from our best telescopes and microscopes.., so there is no chosen race, no promised land, no licence to kill for gain. Murderous, righteous, egotistical, vanity saturated people have ruined our progress though some civilised times. And now, execrable Trump blots it all.
We’ll never know, but I’m wondering if the Dem’s vociferous support of Israel might have cost them votes in the presidential election. They spent more time defending eggs than they did the children of Gaza.
har de har... American politics, that shape-shifting chimera of temporal affiliations and compartmentalised positions; Booker against Trump but all for the continuation of the genocidal annihilation of the Palestinians... has he ever been actually threatened or harmed by one of these people... extremely unlikely, as would be the case for all the rest of the politicians who assent to that country's provision of billions of dollars worth of weaponry and ammunition.
The fact that American Jewry have their hands in the back pockets of all politicians of all stripes, busily stuffing dollars and other emoluments, stitching up all these political creatures such that they are obiged to kiss the Jewish arse whenever requested as if nothing else is of consideration... beyond reprehensible, the deepest plumbing of the Faustian pact, money for lives; children's, mothers', nana's and poppa's, paramedics and doctors and infants and journalists along with the wholesale destruction of an already stressed and blighted society.
Only in America... land of the Barbarians.
Hear, Hear Canguro, PP & Roswell,
Except for maybe the disenfranchise Bernie, the whole of American politics is a filibuster against humanity, decency, peace and universal well-being. It is obsessed by property, and control by any means to thieve and extract wealth for its own inane and destructive purposes. It is a filth of parochial paranoia and beige immoral conformity that they seek to infect the whole world with. May they rot in their siege.
I really thought Cory Booker's 25 hour speech was heroic.
To hear that he is no better than the rest of them - voting, last November to approve a further 8.8 billions in weapons which have totally destroyed Palestine brought me back to the appalling reality that the previous Biden government and now the Trump government's are complicit in the war crimes by providing the means to commit war crimes. The government of Israel has committed and is further intent upon committing further horrific destruction when Palestine is already a rubble .
Israel thinks blowing innocent people to smithereens, killing children- even babies- killing old people, civilians; murdering members of the press so preventing accurate reporting; murdering Red Crescent people and then trying to bury the horror of the crime. What? When will some country in the West stop this fanaticism and Biblical adherence to ancient Judaic nonsense upon which Zionism has been built? Israel is a rogue nation, its leader is a criminal and from what I read the population has been fed propaganda as competent news reporting sources are not available now. The total extermination of an entire people, their buildings , hospitals, medical facilities, water saline treatment plants, denial of any aid whatsoever, deliberately creating famine, is not an act of self defence.
It is called "genocide." It's beyond time the western world recognised this - including our light-weight government in Australia- scared, like the USA of a fairly powerful pro - Israel lobby.
PS It is not being anti semitic or anti Jewish to protest at what Israel is doing to Palestine which - if those of religious persuasion in the rust belts of the USA , is supposedly where their Saviour Jesus was born .