Michigan: A vote for Jill Stein is a vote for Trump

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There are reports that a lot of Arab Americans in Michigan are planning on voting for Jill Stein.

See,

Thom Hartmann, “Jill Stein: The Grifter Who May Hand Trump the White House Again; Not only is she helping Trump win—she’s destroying a once-noble party that could be doing good in this country,” The New Republic, October 10, 2024.

They need to think very carefully before casting a vote that would help Trump win Michigan and perhaps the presidential election.

I have studied Arabic at the University level, speak conversational Arabic, and have worked in the Middle East.

The policy of Joe Biden toward Israel and Gaza has been an abomination. By fully supporting Israel’s commission of war crimes in Gaza the United States has become complicit in the commission of those war crimes.

By pressuring the International Criminal Court not to issue the international arrest warrants against Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense minister Yoav Galant for the commission of war crimes in Gaza, the United
States has acted to undermine the principal international body for tor the prosecution of war crimes.

So long as the U.S. supports and enables Israel (through its military aid) to continue its war crimes in Gaza, the U.S. will never be able to assume the leadership of the nations of the world to maintain international peace and security. This reality was brought home this last week by the BRICS summit hosted by Vladimir Putin in Moscow.

There are two nations acting in flagrant violation of international law today.

One is Russia, continuing its vwar of aggression against Ukraine and war crimes in that country.

The other is Israel, continuing its war crimes in Gaza, and now extending the commission of those crimes to the West Bank and Lebanon.

No one disputes Israel’s right to defend itself against attacks from Hezbollah in Lebanon.

However, under international law and the United Nations Charter, exercise of the right of self-defense is subject to the twin requirements of necessity ad proportionality. Israel has not respected the requirement of proportionality, resorting to grotesque arguments in attempts to justify its actions.

All of this is true. None of it justifies a vote for Jill Stein. A vote for Stein wouldv amount, in facr, to a vote for Donald Trump which could lead to his election as president.

Kamala Harris is not running against some ideal candidate who would protect the Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank.

Moreover, while Harris may not be the strongest candidate in theory, we are not living in a theoretical universe. Furthermore, the election on November 5 is about much more than a choice between her and Donald Trump.

The election is fundamentally about whether the Democrats should run the country or the Republicans. The Republicans have become fascists Under the leadership of Donald Trump who today exercises absolute control over what has become the fascist Republican Party.

A vote for Stein is a vote for Trump.

What would be the policy of Donald Trump toward Israel and Gaza if he is reelected to be president?

He would not be a friend of tie Palestinians. Look beyond the propaganda and at the actual facts.

See

1) Isaac Arnsdorf, Josh Dawsey, John Hudson and Michael Birnbaumm “Trump signals support in call with Netanyahu: ‘Do what you have to do’; Trump offers Israel his backing in wars with Hamas and Hezbollah even as his campaign seeks Arab American votes,” Washington Post, October25, 2024 (Updated at 6:25 p.m. EDT);

2) Here & Now Newsroom, NPR,”How Trump handled Israel while in office,” WbBUR October29, 2024 (06:59).

At this turning point in our nation’s history, in Michigan and elsewhere Arab Americans, who are among the most patriotic of all Americans, need to pay careful attention in voting forca president and also Senators and Congresmen in the November 5 election.

Before voting, Arab-American voters in Michigan need to ask themselves:

Which candidates (president,senators, and congressmen) will be best for the Palestinians, for the Arab-American community, and for the country they now owe allegiance to, the United States of America?

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