Biden and Trump ‘not fit to represent’ US’s Palestinian and Arab communities: Analyst
Ayah Ziyadeh, director of the American Muslims for Palestine Advocacy group, said Trump’s branding of Joe Biden as being “like a Palestinian” in the debate was a “blatantly racist” slur, and neither presidential candidate appealed to many in the US’s Palestinian and Arab communities.
“Israel’s genocide in Gaza has become a focal point of this election. Not only are Muslim and Arab Americans deciding that they don’t want to commit to Biden or re-elect him because of his continued stance and fuelling of Israel’s genocide in Gaza. But the broader American public has also shifted and it’s become one of the biggest issues that is impacting the coming elections,” Ziyadeh told Al Jazeera.
“Right now, it seems that most of our communities are going after uncommitted or they just don’t want to vote because we are presented with two candidates that are just not fit to represent us, both as Palestinians and also as Americans,” Ziyadeh said.
“One is blatantly racist. Wants to deport all of us. And said that President Biden isn’t, essentially, being genocidal enough and that he should let Israel finish off its war on Gaza. And the current president has been consciously and willingly, politically and financially, backing an evident genocide in Gaza,” she said.
“There is no lesser than two evils here,” she added.
“The card we are being dealt with as voters and as Americans is frankly unfair.”
There's Jill Stein... But Americans have been two conditioned / brain washed to accept the two party system to consider an alternative :(
https://www.jillstein2024.com/
And of course without funding, the current electoral system and being blatantly ignored by the media makes it impossible for a 3rd party to enter US politics.
Debate between a openly racist convicted felon and a war criminal supporting genocide.
‘Lack of real vision’ in ending the conflict for both Democrats and Republicans in US
Tamer Qarmout, a professor at the Doha Institute of Graduate Studies, says the US presidential debate highlights how both Democrats and Republicans have lost their will to end Israel’s war on Gaza and to support the creation of a Palestinian state.
“The focus of the discussion was not on a Palestinian state per se – it was one supporting Israel and the best way to support Israel,” he told Al Jazeera. “For both candidates, there’s a lack of real vision to end this conflict. It’s a very shallow discussion that does not have ending the conflict in the centre of it.”
He added that the US’s policies are so aligned to Israel’s interests that Palestinians should turn to the “great global momentum” of solidarity and the increasing wave of [state] recognitions for support instead of waiting for the US to embrace a new position.
That would be my word of advice for Ukraine as well, turn to Europe for more help.
