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Muslims who voted for Trump upset by his pro-Israel cabinet picks | Reuters (2024-11-16)

[https://www.reuters.com/world/us/muslims-who-voted-trump-upset-by-his-pro-israel-cabinet-picks-2024-11-15/] ———
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“Several Muslim and Arab supporters of Trump said they hoped Richard Grenell, Trump’s former acting director of national intelligence, would play a key role after he led months of outreach to Muslim and Arab American communities, and was even introduced as a potential next secretary of state at events.

“Another key Trump ally, Massad Boulos, the Lebanese father-in-law of Trump’s daughter Tiffany, met repeatedly with Arab American and Muslim leaders.

“Both promised Arab American and Muslim voters that Trump was a candidate for peace who would act swiftly to end the wars in the Middle East and beyond…”

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  • satanmat@lemmy.world
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    He moved the Embassy to Jerusalem. WTF did you think would happen???

    The evangelical community NEEDS!!! Israel to exist because they want Armageddon. — no really.

    Yeah. You knew what he was when you picked him up.

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      I’m just waiting for all the people who abstained from voting against him to appease their conscience to start realizing how much worse things are going to get for Palestine. I really hope I’m wrong, but Trump is already on record about his expectations.

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          Trump wants the conflict “ended in a week” and Israel obviously isn’t willing to negotiate in good faith. The only alternative is pulling out the stops and just bombing the whole country, and Palestine ceases to exist. That is Trump’s solution to everything he doesn’t like, but fortunately this week it seems like our Senators are finally growing a spine and pushing back against him so we’ll see what happens there.

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        Palestine already faces an Israel with full material support from the US. Dems just feign concern about it and tell you they are going to look into it and hey look a bird! The “worse” would simply be a continuation of the status quo but withouy a veneer of respectability to bring Dem voters on board.

        Your position is neither moral nor strategic. Morally, I don’t think anyone should need to be told to not tolerate genocide, let alone normalize it, let alone support those committing it. The moral question is not really up for discussion. Strategically, well, there is nothing strategic about individuals telling each other to tolerate anything and everything, including genocide, and to guarantee your votes with no demands. That’s just being a good pawn for the Democratic Party that, with incentives provided through your consent, would rather lose than reverse course on genocide. You are essentially making yourself a political non-entity.

        Please go and actually do something worthwhile to help people and stop letting genocidal ghouls control your political thoughts.

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          So let me get this straight… Your position is that instead of being a pawn of the Democrats who are at least pushing back against Israel, I should instead be a pawn of the Republicans who have now placed a lunatic in charge that has no objections to wiping out an entire country as long as it gets the conflict out of the news cycle and he can claim he was responsible for ending the conflict? Israel knows if they just cut loose, they would face repercussions from the rest of the world, but if they had the US (Trump) providing full support to such an action then they would have some leverage. What do you think will happen to Palestine as a country if Trump succeeds in removing all the guardrails and gets to fulfill his wet dream of being a dictator?