Quite a few Muslim and Arab voters sided with Trump as a rebuke to the Biden Administration’s siding with Israel in its war in Gaza. A guy named Rabiul Chowdhury, a founder of Muslims for Trump, thought that a former ambassador to Germany would be made Secretary of State. Samraa Luqman of Dearborn and a co-chair of the Abandon Harris campaign, said she thought anything was better than Biden officials. Whoops.
Trump’s picks include Marco Rubio for Secretary of State, Elise Stefanik as ambassador to the UN, Mike Huckabee as ambassador to Israel, and a pro-Israeli golfing buddy Steven Witkoff as special envoy to the Middle East. All are hawks who completely back Israel.
In fact Huckabee says there is no such thing as the West Bank. It is Judea and Samaria, names used by right wing Israelis. He says there is no occupation; the West Bank simply belongs to Israel.
Evidently the Muslims in Michigan who voted for Trump hadn’t done their homework.
Some of the info for this post is from Jonathan Weisman, “Israeli Right Likes Trump’s Team; Many U.S. Muslims and Jews Don’t,” New York Times (15 November 2024), p. A9.
Count me among the Harris voters who say, "To hell with anyone whose vote was a protest against Harris or the Democratic Party." Don't say you were badly informed. By November, no one in the USA with a smartphone (nearly everyone) didn't know about the election and the dangers Trump posed.
ReplyDeleteIf your way to show disagreement with Harris or the Democrats was to vote for straight-up evil, then you deserve everything coming to you.