In a time marked by unspeakable horrors in Gaza, the Democratic Party faithful still found time to laud Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) for his 25-hour Senate speech. His spectacle, hailed as a triumph of Democratic grit, reveals a deep rot in a party so enamored with its own theatrics that it turns a blind eye to the carnage it funded and supported under the Biden administration.

To cheer Booker while Palestinians in Gaza are being slaughtered by Israel is not just tone-deaf. It is a damning indictment of a party as morally bankrupt as the Republicans led by President Trump.

The numbers alone should stop us cold. Since October 2023, Israel’s offensive has led to the deaths of more than 59,000 Palestinians in Gaza (one-third of them children), injured more than 116,000, buried countless others under Gaza’s rubble, and made millions homeless. In addition, Israel has deliberately cut off food, water and electricity — a war crime that the U.S. has done nothing to stop — that is pushing Gaza to the edge of famine.

Last week, reports emerged of Israeli soldiers executing

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