They established a pipeline for US dual citizen Gazan refugees in Egypt 3 month ago. Once the ceasefire gets signed, the mass importation of Gazan refugees (2.3 million) into the US begins. What did you REALLY think that those protests outside the DNC in Chicago were about?
Karen Attiah, "WaPo Opinion The first clean-up job for Harris is Biden’s horrible Gaza policy"Young Americans won’t vote for further support of Israel’s brutal war.
Americans are again calling on a Black candidate when White predecessors have made an embarrassing, bloody mess of things.
I noted this pattern back in 2020, when then-Sen. Kamala D. Harris became the first Black woman to be elected vice president, after four years of the Trump circus. Now, Harris is poised to become America’s first Black woman presidential nominee of a major political party. Since President Biden announced his withdrawal from the race on Sunday, leading Democrats have largely fallen in line behind her. Donations large and small are pouring in. The energy, as of now at least, feels reminiscent of Barack Obama’s historic 2008 campaign.
The role of foreign policy failures in the elevation of Black leaders is underestimated. In a paper called “George W. Bush, the Iraq War, and the Election of Barack Obama,” political scientist Gary C. Jacobson makes the case that negative opinions on Bush’s failed war in Iraq had direct and indirect impacts on Obama’s rise to the presidency. Support for the war dropped from 73 percent in 2003 to 33 percent in 2008. Bush’s popularity cratered in parallel — and the Republican Party lost young voters especially. Bush’s fumbling response to Hurricane Katrina and the economic crash of 2008 were major factors as well, but Jacobson argues that the war was the “single most important contributor to Obama’s presidential victory.”
I believe future scholars will see that today’s historic protests against Biden’s support for Israel’s appalling campaign in Gaza have played a similar role in Harris’s snap rise to the top of the presidential ticket.
Let’s be real here: Biden’s debate performance in June embarrassed donors and party operatives who hoped to keep a lid on his decline. Yet few if any of these same people questioned his mental fitness when he was denying the death toll of Palestinians, bypassing Congress to send more weapons to Israel, and condemning student protesters as contributing to chaos and disorder. But voters, especially young people watching the horrors of the conflict on their phones nearly daily, have been questioning Biden’s fitness for some 10 months, as the death toll of Palestinians has risen to about 40,000, with tens of thousands seriously wounded.
There is evidence that the war in Gaza has harmed Democrats more than Biden’s embarrassing debate performance. According to a recent Century Foundation poll, nearly 4 in 10 voters (38 percent) said they were less likely to vote for Biden due to his handling of Israel’s Gaza campaign. One in 3 independent voters expressed the same reluctance.
Beyond polls, there are other huge, if not historic, markers for popular anger over the war in Gaza. In November, 300,000 people descended on Washington to protest the war. This spring’s encampment movement on college campuses was the largest student antiwar movement since Vietnam. The NAACP and other organizations have called for a permanent cease-fire. In a number of states, notably the swing state of Michigan, organizers inspired significant numbers of Democrats to vote “uncommitted” in presidential primaries rather than give their support to Biden. And just this week, seven major labor unions called for a halt to U.S. weapons shipments to Israel.
Already, as vice president, Harris has signaled at least a bit more empathy for Palestinians, though her campaign says she is missing Netanyahu’s speech because of a previously scheduled event in Indianapolis and — according to reported remarks by an aide — the decision “should not be interpreted as a change in her position on Israel.”
A meaningful break with the Biden policy would mean breaking with Obama’s, too. Despite his deep dislike for Netanyahu, Obama gave Israel more arms and munitions than any of his predecessors. In 2016, Obama signed a 10-year, $38 billion military aid package to Israel. As senator, Harris came out in support of the package. During her 2020 presidential campaign she said she believed Israel met international standards of human rights. Given its ruling last week, the International Court of Justice might like a word with the former prosecutor.
Look, Donald Trump, the felon, has no business being near the White House. This cannot mean we stop the pressure on ending the carnage in Gaza, however. The least Harris can do in her elevated role is to push boldly on a permanent cease-fire, call for release of all hostages and bring the parties to the table to negotiate a solution that includes the rebuilding of Gaza. Short of that, Harris, like Obama before her, will be diminished despite being elevated.
I doubt that Israel will grant full citizenship to the remaining 3.5 million West Bank Palestinians, even if America does take the other 2.3 Gazans off their hands. But hey, the Neoliberal Globalists do dream...
I very seriously doubt 2.3 million Gazans will ever be "imported" to America.
ReplyDeleteThey won't be "Imported". They're not items. They'll be smuggled and sent to your house, Dervish.
DeleteThat is the language used in the post, Mystere. Obviously you didn't read it. Of course they aren't items, they are "accomplices" that need to be exterminated. There is no room where I live for 2.3 million people. What a moronic comment.
ReplyDeleteNo room? Because Kamala already let in 10 million?
DeleteDervish believes in exterminating groups of people. After all, they're not white Anglo Saxons. His KKK beliefs show up.
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ReplyDeleteI am very strongly opposed to exterminating any group of people. You strongly support it in regards to the citizens of Gaza. Even to the point of abandoning the Israeli hostages to their deaths. d0n-OLD (who I am sure you agree with) urged NuttenYahoo NOT to try and get the hostages back. Because that would involve a ceasefire agreement. Better to let them die so NuttenYahoo can continue bombing the citizens of Gaza.
ReplyDeleteKamala did not let 10 million people into my house. 10 people couldn't live in my house, let alone 10 million.