Arabs In American Politics: No Endorsement For Harris Or Trump and Why

 Nadene Goldfoot                                                 

                                Hezbollah of Lebanon, ready to follow Iran's wishes
 

Hamas in Gaza who have ruled this piece of land since they had their first election instigated by Obama. They are the terrorists, the arm of Fatah, through Arafat.  

The Arab American Political Action Committee announced that it will not endorse Kamala Harris or Donald Trump for president because of their support for the "criminal" Israeli government and because, "Both candidates have endorsed genocide in Gaza and war in Lebanon." 

Just what do they think that Hamas and Hezbollah have been doing to Israel?  Making friends?  They are terror organizations that have been backed and financed by Iran, whose intentions are also theirs.  

Their line this Michigan-based group was unwilling to choose between-- “the lesser of two evils” who have both “endorsed genocide in Gaza and war in Lebanon, ” is exactly what their leaders are doing to Israel, trying to destroy the country for their take-over.  It's the method I have noticed that they use; turning around what's said about them that they are truly doing and blaming Israel for doing it to them.  Do they simply forget who has started the confrontation?  

Michigan has a large Arab American population, and is home to the largest Arab American population density in the United States:  In 2020, 310,087 Michigan residents had Middle Eastern or North African ancestry, which is 3.1% of the state's population. The three core counties of Detroit have at least 205,000 Arabic speakers. This is about 13% of all Arabic speakers in the United States. Dearborn, Michigan became the first Arab-majority city in the United States in 2023, with about 55% of the city's residents identifying as having Middle Eastern or North African ancestry. The Detroit metropolitan area has one of the largest concentrations of people of Middle Eastern origin in the United States. Dearborn's Arab community includes Lebanese people who immigrated for auto industry jobs in the 1920s, as well as more recent immigrants from Yemen and Iraq. 

In the United States, a political action committee (PAC) is a tax-exempt 527 organization that pools campaign contributions from members and donates those funds to campaigns for or against candidates, ballot initiatives, or legislation.  

Hezbollah  was founded in 1982 by Lebanese clerics in response to the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. Inspired by the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's model of Islamic governance, Hezbollah established strong ties with Iran.

HAMAS emerged in 1987 during the first Palestinian uprising, or intifada, as an outgrowth of the Muslim Brotherhood's Palestinian branch. HAMAS has been the de facto governing body in the Gaza Strip since 2007, when it ousted the Palestinian Authority  (PA) from power.

The Palestinian Authority  is the Fatah-controlled government body that exercises partial civil control over the Palestinian enclaves in the Israeli-occupied West Bank (original Judea and Samaria-part of the original 12 tribes of Jacob) as a consequence of the 1993–1995 Oslo Accords.

The Oslo Accords were a pivotal milestone in Israeli-Palestinian relations, aimed at propelling the peace process forward and providing for the expansion of Palestinian self-rule throughout most of the West Bank.

                                       Yitzhak Rabin, PM

                             Abbas at UN

On September 13, 1993, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Negotiator Mahmoud Abbas signed a Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements, commonly referred to as the “Oslo Accord,” at the White House.                                     

                      Arafat of the PLO

Israel accepted the PLO as the representative of the Palestinians, and the PLO renounced terrorism and recognized Israel’s right to exist in peace.

 Both sides agreed that a Palestinian Authority (PA) would be established and assume governing responsibilities in the West Bank and Gaza Strip over a five-year period. 

Then, permanent status talks on the issues of borders, refugees, and Jerusalem would be held. 

While President Bill Clinton’s administration played a limited role in bringing the Oslo Accord into being, it would invest vast amounts of time and resources in order to help Israel and the Palestinians implement the agreement. 

By the time Clinton left office, however, the peace process had run aground, and a new round of Israeli-Palestinian violence had begun.

We see here how individual Arabs might be feeling about the 2 candidates, so the question is, how do we Jews plan to vote?  We only make up 2% of the US population at best.  The percentage of Arab Americans in the United States is estimated to be between 0.639% and 3.8% of the population, depending on the source: 

Reference:

Israel AM:  https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?tab=wm#inbox/FMfcgzQXJbBKcPFpPWbCqMNlsQRhmrQg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycXlc4SrncM