If Biden loses in November, don’t blame voters who are angry over Gaza

There is not a single university left. The health system has basically collapsed. 1.9 million people have been forcibly displaced. The UN has said 100,000 people in Gaza have been killed, injured, or are missing. And Biden seems to think so little of the devastation that he seems to think it is appropriate to weigh in on a ceasefire while eating an ice-cream cone.

NB: The Western media and commentariat don’t get it. They’re still talking about ‘the day after Gaza’; a technocratic government for Palestinians, about the future of Israeli politics etc. If a hundred thousand white Europeans and Americans had been killed or injured, hospitals and refugee camps bombed, entire neighbourhoods flattened, people been denied food, water and medicine, we can imagine the uproar.

There are still politicians who sneer at questions about maimed Palestinian children, and op-ed writers who talk with calm reassurance about maintaining Israel’s global status and reputation – as if there were any of these things left to maintain. Israel is a proxy for American imperialism, an outpost of a fast disintegrating empire, and a completely lawless state. Any examination of what the Israeli settlers have been doing on the West Bank; not to mention the numerous massacres over the decades since 1948 will make this clear. Nothing will ‘work’ now, ladies and gentlemen. It’s over, your pipe-dream of leading the ‘free world’ and your posture of liberality and law-governed polities is over. It’s a dead horse that will not spring to life for the remainder of this century. Palestinian lives are dispensable to you, their decades-long pain and suffering and humiliation not worth a second thought. Shame on you.

But the establishments of the ‘free world’ don’t get it. Aaron Bushnell did, and gave his life to awaken his fellow Americans. I salute him and grieve for his death. God bless him and all those across the world who are demonstrating for sanity and compassion. DS

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Arwa Mahdawi

Here we go again, eh? For a short but wonderful period, it looked like Donald Trump’s political career was over. An indicted former president running again? It had never happened before. Trump’s legal problems looked insurmountable. And yet, like a phoenix with a toupee, Trump has risen from the ashes. It now seems inevitable that 2024 will be a repeat of 2020: a Joe Biden vs Trump rematch.

What’s very far from inevitable however, is that Biden is going to win again. I don’t need to tell you that his polling figures are dire. I don’t need to tell you that there are serious concerns about his age and mental competence. As November creeps closer, there is increasing panic in Democratic circles about Biden’s ability to win.

Amid that panic, there’s also a lot of finger-pointing and recrimination. Anyone who raises concerns about Biden is immediately accused of helping Trump. Anyone isn’t jumping at the bit to vote for a man many of us now think of as “Genocide Joe” is being told that we’re useful idiots who are going to hand the election to the former guy.

I’ll put my cards on the table: I’m a permanent resident of the US which means I’m not allowed to vote. (I’m not sure what happened to the whole no taxation without representation idea.) But if I could vote and the election were tomorrow I would not be able to bring myself to support Biden. And I’d feel betrayed by my American wife if she voted for Biden. As someone of Palestinian heritage I have watched aghast as Biden has given Israel a green light to do whatever it wants in Gaza, international law and civilian deaths be damned. I have watched in horror as the entire population of Gaza starves and the US vetoes ceasefire resolution after resolution. And I have watched in disbelief as Biden has cast doubts on the number of Palestinians who have died, repeated inflammatory misinformation and ignored the suffering of Palestinians in official statements on the conflict.

I’m sorry but I simply could not bring myself to cast a vote for a man who doesn’t seem to believe that people like me are fully human. I cannot support a man who seems to think that it’s OK that babies in Gaza are needlessly starving to death. A vote for Biden is not just a vote against Trump, it is a vote endorsing his clear disdain for Palestinians, his dehumanization of Arabs, and his complicity in what many experts have termed a plausible genocide.

But, Arwa, Trump would have been even worse on Gaza! I know that. But, let me tell you something, that argument loses a lot of its potency when Gaza looks like hell on earth as its. There is not a single university left. The health system has basically collapsed. 1.9 million people have been forcibly displaced. The UN has said 100,000 people in Gaza have been killed, injured, or are missing. And Biden seems to think so little of the devastation that he seems to think it is appropriate to weigh in on a ceasefire while eating an ice-cream cone. It’s honestly very difficult to think about how things could possibly be worse…

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/28/if-biden-loses-in-november-dont-blame-voters-who-are-angry-over-gaza

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