Posted on 03/08/2024 3:21:23 PM PST by lightman
When the polls closed on February 27 for the 2024 Michigan Democratic primary, more than 100,000 voters cast their ballots as “uncommitted.” Usually, those votes would have gone to President Joe Biden.
“Michigan, a critical state in the general election and a key component of the Democratic coalition, is becoming a battleground where voters are expressing their disappointment and demanding a change in policy,” the uncommitted movement’s website states.
Then a week later on Super Tuesday, thousands of votes in North Carolina, Massachusetts and Minnesota also came in uncommitted on the Democratic side.
Naturally, the question becomes, why are these voters upset with Biden?
They’re upset because Biden, until recently, has been forceful in providing support to a longstanding and important ally — Israel. They’re upset Biden correctly views Iranian-backed Hamas as a terrorist organization that must be eliminated — for the sake of peace on Israel’s border and to avenge the slaughter, rape and torture of thousands, including Americans, on October 7, 2023.
The uncommitted movement is led by Palestinian and Democratic Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib. In recent months, Tlaib has made her positions clear with her votes on Capitol Hill.
In February, Tlaib was the only present member who failed to vote in favor of a resolution condemning Hamas rape and sexual violence. She also voted against a bill barring the travel of Hamas members to the United States.
Since October 8, when Israeli Defense Forces started their defensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Tlaib has demanded a ceasefire — which means allowing the terrorist organization to win the war it started. She wants Israel wiped off the map and has confirmed this position with repeated chants of “from the river to the sea.”
Biden is appeasing this position. Just this week, in an incredible abuse of power for political reasons, he announced American troops are headed to the Gaza Strip to build a port — which will be used to distribute humanitarian aid. He claims the population is starving, but doesn’t explain why, and ignored Palestinian celebrations of not just the October 7, 2023, massacre, but of the September 11, 2001, attacks on the U.S.
“On hunger in Gaza — it’s not caused by a lack of food, it’s caused by Hamas commandeering the shipments and selling them on the black market at exorbitant prices. Again, it’s Hamas using civilians as pawns to gain international sympathy. And Biden is falling for it,” former U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman said on X about the move. “You can airlift food into Gaza and you can land ships at a makeshift port. But as long as Hamas blocks the supply chain the people of Gaza will suffer. That’s why the worst outcome for the Palestinians as well as Israel is for Hamas to remain in power.”
During the State of the Union speech, Biden offered to reward Hamas through the two-state solution and falsely claimed it is the only path to peace in the region.
Given his standing in Michigan with Tlaib’s uncommitted movement, the next nine months of Biden’s foreign policy decisions will be heavily influenced by the radical and pro-terrorism congresswoman. If Biden wants four more years in the White House, and he does, he has to win the state. In the long term, it will drag out the war, bolster our enemies, punish our allies, betray western values and make America less safe.
there will never be a two state solution, period, no one in israel wants it its not gonna happen so Biden can flap his dentures all he wants it NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN
Biden is the biggest FRAUD ever in the Whitehouse in my lifetime and I’m not that much younger than the SOB..
Does Tlaib still have a Palestinian flag flying in front of the House office?
The GOP needs to play by DNC rules and offer up a radical muslim to run against Chomo Joe.
RE: Tlaib “owns” Biden....
Political Dictionary says:
“To have your opponent by the “short hairs” means that you’ve got them in a tight spot, and they are at your mercy.
If you’re in the U.K., you might talk about having someone by the “short and curlies,” instead of by the short hairs. But the meaning is the same.”
Welcome to the GOP fantasy universe.
Let me interrupt this six decade delusion and remind GOP candidates that Democratic Party voter discipline is Absolute.
Disenchanted Democrats will never vote Republican, and they will never stay at home and not vote!
Michigan like Minnesota has become a Muslim hell hole.
I’d like to see an actual come to Jesus meeting in the US where all this scum is eliminated by whatever means necessary... Along with liberals.
It’s coming....sooner than yesterday but not as soon as it will be tomorrow.
With only Joe on the ballot, their "uncommitted" votes don't mean squat.
Come election day, they'll vote for Biden......
Biden is in a no-win position.
The Democrats depend on Jewish donors for much of their funding. But Muslims are becoming a more numerous constituency, and may be willing to force a Biden loss in November in order to convince the Dems that they cannot be safely ignored.
If that’s the case, then the Muslims may be conquered the Democratic Party. Earlier than I’ve thought. All because Muslims are numerous in Michigan. And Joe needs Michigan to get reelected.
That is why Israel is in trouble.
It’s all about demographics. The Arab and Muslim voter is a reality already:
There are 3.7 million Arabs in the US.
There are 3.45 million Muslims.
Internal, national politics, drive foreign and even security policy. That’s why Obama made sure to withdraw most US forces from Iraq 1 year before the elections. Why the UK requested the US stop its pursuit of Mutadr al Sadr in 2004 (Southern Iraq) since it was looking bad and you had elections in the UK. In this case, it’s a simple matter of a large and growing demographic which tends to vote very homogeneously around certain issues. This is a blessing but also a curse for the Democrats, IMHO. It will be hard to straddle the fence and try to pander to both the Jewish and Arab/Muslim voter, which is what the Democrats attempt to do. These two groups have mutually exclusive interests.
Forget any agreements we made with Israel. We have three security agreements and a SOFA. We make and break promises and treaties all the time and only care about them when we can use them rhetorically in an argument for some cause.
Forget the fact that Israel actually is a democracy, unlike Ukraine. That Israel is sovereign, unlike Ukraine...
Forget that we and the UK helped create this nation.
Forget that these people were persecuted and discriminated against over millennia in Europe and even here in the US.
Forget that in this case, it really was an “unprovoked” attack on Israel, Unlike Ukraine where we had been antagonizing the situation for years.
Forget that Israel is a bubble of modern liberal (in the classical meaning) Western society surrounded by heathens and savages.
It really just boils down to money and power, and with Israel the money is starting to go on the other side, i.e. Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Egypt, Jordan all have some influence in the US (lobbyists) and definitely represent a far greater economic value to us. Likewise, the demographics are changing in the US and today the Arab and Muslim vote will impact elections. Tough times for Israel are coming.
“”Biden offered to reward Hamas through the two-state solution and falsely claimed it is the only path to peace in the region.””
How many years has this dope been asleep? He probably thinks he can also get a Nobel Peace Prize for that idea!!!!
They do not want a state, they want Islam, period.
The Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement
18 August 1988
Article Eleven:
The Islamic Resistance Movement believes that the land of Palestine is an Islamic Waqf consecrated for future Moslem generations until Judgement Day. It, or any part of it, should not be squandered: it, or any part of it, should not be given up. Neither a single Arab country nor all Arab countries, neither any king or president, nor all the kings and presidents, neither any organization nor all of them, be they Palestinian or Arab, possess the right to do that....
Article Thirteen:
Initiatives, and so-called peaceful solutions and international conferences, are in contradiction to the principles of the Islamic Resistance Movement.
There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad. Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are all a waste of time and vain endeavors. The Palestinian people know better than to consent to having their future, rights and fate toyed with.
Article Fifteen:
The day that enemies usurp part of Moslem land, Jihad becomes the individual duty of every Moslem. In face of the Jews’ usurpation of Palestine, it is compulsory that the banner of Jihad be raised.
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/hamas.asp
There can be no peace with them, except the kind Rome finally achieved with Carthage.
How do you get to take the office if you don’t take the oath?
Makes me grind my teeth!
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