WATCH: Sen. Tom Cotton speaks on Senate floor in support of Israel in its war against Hamas

As over half of Senate Democrats voted for a meaningless resolution to cut off weapons supplies to Israel, Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) took the Senate floor by storm with a speech laden with moral clarity, targeting the “senators, pundits, podcasters, and European politicians” who “impose this unique standard on the Jewish nation.”

“Why could it be?” he asked.

Cotton’s remarks fully align him with President Donald Trump’s demands — if Hamas wants to end the so-called famine in Gaza, it must disarm and release the Jewish hostages it has illegally held for over 700 days.

But Cotton’s remarks are particularly significant, because they clearly laid out the double standard facing Israel, unique among nations and in history.

“I don’t recall from my history lessons, for instance, the United States providing humanitarian aid to Germany and Japan in World War Two,” he said. “On the contrary, the allies imposed naval blockades that led to widespread shortages in those enemy nations. When, in the annals of history, has the victim of an unprovoked war of aggression ever been held responsible for the nutrition of the aggressor?

“Put simply,” Cotton continued, “Israel doesn’t have any responsibility to send a single loaf of bread to Gaza…Children in Gaza aren’t going hungry because of lack of supplies of Israel, they’re suffering because Hamas uses food and humanitarian aid as a weapon to stay in power,” Cotton explained.

And yet, both Israel and America, at not insignificant costs, are working overtime to attempt to feed the very Gazans that neither country has an obligation to. Nevertheless, Hamas and other gangs of Palestinian terrorists have repeatedly looted aid stations and shot humanitarian workers, all because their efforts undermine Hamas’s brutal attempts to remain in power — and Cotton noted that it’s no coincidence to see the propaganda ratchet up as Hamas is flailing.

“Here we go again,” Cotton said. “Hamas is on the verge of defeat, so it’s cranked up the propaganda machine once again.” Unfortunately, he noted, “Hamas can count on an international media and political chorus to fight their battles for them.”

But it’s not just European leftists and the New York Times that are going to bat for terrorists, Cotton noted. “Gullible” senators in the Democratic Party sided with Hamas too — and Cotton said that calling the senators gullible might actually be “charitable.”

“They expect Israel to feed the very people who attacked, raped, and murdered innocent Israeli men, women, and children on October 7th, and I would remind everyone, not a few American victims as well.”

Cotton’s speech quickly went viral, and the reception among his fellow Arkansans was popular.

Laneigh Pfalser, Cotton’s fellow Arkansan and Deputy Executive Director of the Young Republican National Federation (YRNF), told the Washington Reporter that Cotton’s remarks were spot on.

“Even when faced with facts and evidence of the Hamas terrorist organization as the actual perpetrators of the humanitarian crisis on the Gaza Strip, almost half of Senate Democrats refused to do right by our fellow man to work with Senator Cotton, the Trump administration, and Israel to quickly get aid to those who suffer,” she said. “Because it's an inconvenient narrative for them to do so.”

Cotton’s full speech can also be found on Twitter.