Cory Booker: “We found ways that perhaps we would not have been able to…”

“We were using the way we were trying to position ourselves as people that could have conversations with Palestinian leaders, conversations with Israeli leaders, because I said our moral urgency is to stop people dying. And We found ways that perhaps we would not have been able to, to get sick Gazan children out because we could have communications with people in both sides of the conflict to get American doctors, many of them Muslim themselves, in to help people. And yet we would bump into walls of people who on both sides were infuriated and had certain litmus tests on both sides of this issue that often would direct their ire towards me.” (25:43–25:59)

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