Source: In These Times
by Alberto Toscano
“Over the past week, as multiple international bodies, human rights organizations and health workers warn that Gaza’s starvation crisis has reached a tipping point, and Palestinians there are facing ‘the worst-case scenario of famine,’ politicians and pundits across the political spectrum have discovered a new sense of urgency. On July 24, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), speaking on the Senate floor, decried mass starvation and pleaded with Israel to change course. Two days later, Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) posted on X about Gaza’s ’humanitarian crisis’ and the need to ’flood the zone’ with aid, noting that ’the strategy of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’ has failed. The day after that, former President Barack Obama denounced ‘the travesty of innocent people dying of preventable starvation.’ But it wasn’t just centrist Democrats. Within the last week, there have been abrupt shifts in many corners of the Right as well.” (08/01/25)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/centrist-dems-republicans-change-stance-on-gaza-to-hide-genocide