Muslim leaders are 'out of words' as they tire of the White House outreach on the war in Gaza
Muslim leaders are 'out of words' as they tire of the White House outreach on the war in Gaza
Some Muslim and Arab American leaders have grown frustrated with the outreach from President Joe Biden's White House as the war in Gaza drags on.
“All they are trying to do is convince us that there is some kind of movement toward where we want,” Siblani said. “But it’s too slow and it’s dragging. It’s more death and casualties that are happening.”
The highest-profile example of the stonewalling came last week when a Palestinian American doctor walked out of a meeting with Biden. But interviews with Muslim and Arab American leaders reveal how that face-to-face protest was only the most conspicuous case of a fracture that has damaged crucial relationships and closed avenues needed to repair them.
But the situation presents a challenge for a president who believes in the political power of personal relationships and has prized his history of sitting down with opponents and critics. It could also jeopardize his reelection this year, with some Muslims warning they are unwilling to support Biden even it that risks returning Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, to the White House.
Salam Al-Marayati, who lives in Los Angeles and leads the Muslim Public Affairs Council, described the attitude as, “Forget them. They have to learn a lesson. And if they lose, that’s the lesson they should learn.”
" some Muslims warning they are unwilling to support Biden even it that risks returning Donald Trump" ...who will be eager to urge Israel to "finish" the job".
36And then Trump puts in his Muslim ban.
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some Muslims warning they are unwilling to support Biden even it that risks returning Donald Trump
Yep, these people are fucking morons.
32We don't get good support from this one guy, so we want to make it so the guy who promises to fuck you over gets elected.
10More like if we burn you burn with us
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Yeah, they're morons for refusing to vote for a guy killing their friends and families. Maybe you should work harder to move the Dems away from supporting genocide.
They're not voting for Trump either. They're exercising their democratic rights. Biden should earn their votes, not be entitled to it because one guy is less overt about doing genocide.
5I get your point of view because the alternative is surely worse, but from their point of view, their people and for some their own families are the ones who are dying.
4Permanently Deleted
3If he wasn’t fixated on supporting this genocide
It's not Biden - Israel being a holy cow is untouchable policy, not politics. Israel is immune from US politics - and people in the US who doesn't want to sign on to genocidal white supremacism have run straight into that wall (a wall that wasn't supposed to be in a supposedly "democratic" state) and don't really know what to do.
I don't envy you.
1He just shit the bed so bad.
All he had to do was stay the fuck out of it and say I’m not trump and he would have won by a landslide.
Now we will probably get trump and we deserve it.
Yes I am part of that and no I don’t feel bad about it.
You guys decided you would rather have trump and support genocidal actions and said fuck you to us.
Then you beg for our support while calling us idiots.
Generic you, not natural_motions you
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The true morons are biden and his supporters who think supporting genocide is more important than winning the election. Stop supporting genocide and you get their votes. Seems like a win-win, but I guess biden and his supporters think that's too much winning. Typical democrats snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
2it's not a kind of cut off one's nose to spite one's face fucking morons. If they don't do that, they'll be played around over and over again. If they'll do that, it will be a lesson not to trivialise their importance. When Trump is back it can be worse but now the sentiment around the world is changing, which can help to control Trump which which will deem him to be at the same level with Bibi which will leave him isolated, which is good. So, it's not moronic but a rather calculated risk.
-1Gottemmmm. That'll get them to vote for the person financing the deaths of their families for sure!
Moron.
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Dan Koh, deputy director of the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, said the administration wants “to make sure we’re as accessible as possible.” “We understand that some people do not want to engage. We respect that,” he said. “But we think that the people who have engaged have felt that it was a fruitful discussion.”
"Why isn't our good good words convincing people?!"
13This is the right move. Stop talking and expect action. Otherwise, be unemployed come November.
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If you're an American it seems like your choices really are between Biden and his slow genocide or Trump with his quick one.
It doesn't seem like you can really rely on your political leaders to help resolve this conflict in a way that doesn't lead to more suffering and death, only the pace at which it happens. If those are the only two options, I don't blame Muslim and Arab Americans for giving up on Biden.
I think it would just be more honest to acknowledge there's no real support amongst any American political leadership to minimise the suffering of either the Palestinian or Israeli people.
9What suffering of the Israelis? They're partying and listening to shitty techno music and getting showered in free American money and weapons.
Palestinians are living in tents and starving. They'd love to be subjected to America's treatment of Israel.
10Both Palestinians and Israelis see each other as existential threats. Ignoring this basic reality means there will always be conflict in the region.
Palestinians are suffering en masse right now, I don't think anyone reasonable is denying that.
But what do you think happens if the underlying, justifiable, fear that they each have of the isn't addressed? There will be more massacres and more war, and like in every war, innocent people will pay the price.
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It doesn’t matter whether Trump or Biden is President to stop the war in Gaza, what matters is that Netanyahu isn’t Prime Minister
5Gantz has already said he'd also invade Rafah once he's prime minister. The issue is not Netanyahu. It's all of Israel as a racist apartheid ethnostate.
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We need to stop paying attention to what the Biden government says, and pay absolute attention to what they do! They're speaking out of both sides of their mouth, FFS!
6It's an election year, so yeah.
Lots of posturing, very little action.
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Fuck Israel.
https://kolektiva.media/w/ba1cb5b0-521f-4aee-9334-bd5ab1dd16e1
Donate to legal funds for those who get captured by police on April 15th or get your ass to a demonstration. This needs to stop.
3Nice to see some people don't support Genocide. If only more people had those moral standards a third party would win. Too bad libs will excuse Genocide for their God Emperor Joe Biden.
-10Maybe they should start sharing some words with Hamas about releasing the hostages and surrendering so that the war can end.
-13Israel has said they will continue their Genocide if Hamas releases the hostages.
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I just hope they vote third party. No reason to support either candidate.
-37"Take that, face!" says man cutting off own nose.
25Surly trump will do better, right guys?
14Pretty sad that a Dem incumbent can't even beat a 90 count felon, huh? Like, how politically incompetent and disliked would you have to be to end up in that position?
Really let that sink in. Biden is so bad at his job he could realistically lose to Donald Trump.
Almost like the Democratic party's strategy of propping up insane candidates to try and make their own ultra-conservative corpo candidates look more palatable is backfiring horredously. Almost like years of ignoring the democratic base in favor of courting a near non-existent demographic of swing voters has alienated huge swaths of the center left.
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Third party, another, "Let Israel finish the job" vote.
7That's how Trump wins.
3That’s what we deserve for supporting the massacres going on
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