Posted on 01/31/2024 8:27:54 AM PST by SunkenCiv
The meeting highlights Biden's desperate bid to repair his standing with a reliably Democratic voting bloc. Arab-American support for Biden fell from 59 percent in 2020 to just 17 percent after the Hamas attack, according to one poll. That's especially worrisome for Biden in a swing state like Michigan, which voted for Donald Trump in 2016 and went for Biden by just 3 percentage points in 2020. Michigan has more than 300,000 residents with Middle Eastern or North African ancestry, the largest concentration of any state.
After Hamas's attack on Israel in October, Siblani organized an event in Dearborn where a local imam said Hamas's invasion of Israel lit "a fire in [Muslims'] hearts that will burn that state until its demise." He cheered Houthi rebels as "the pride of Arabs" after the Yemen-based terrorist group called for war with Israel...
Siblani, who once organized a boycott of a restaurant whose owner posted "Long Live Israel" on social media, has called on Arab and Muslim voters to oppose Biden and other Democrats he sees as too supportive of Israel. He has called Biden "Genocide Joe" and said days before his meeting with the Biden campaign that he will not vote for the president...
The White House is well aware of Siblani's inflammatory rhetoric. Siblani bragged that he refused "to apologize for Hamas firing rockets at Israel" during a conference call with Biden White House officials in 2021.
...meeting with Siblani is perhaps all the more surprising because the White House has sought to distance itself from anti-Israel rhetoric. In December, the White House condemned Council on American-Islamic Relations director Nihad Awad after he said he was "happy to see" Hamas attack Israel.
The Biden campaign and Siblani did not respond to requests for comment.
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Thanks m.
biden hooks up with head choppers?
well everyone does it right ?
Justin Mohn ‘decapitates his father’, 68, and brandishes his severed head during gruesome 14-minute long anti-Biden YouTube rant
so no big deal
Hes going to Palestine OHIO, but the dumb lefty muslims will think its Palestinian Palestine.
PING!.......................
Trump needs to end the suicidal chain-migration of Islam into our homeland. Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller knew it needed to be done last time around, but we got Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnel’s agenda instead.
That sounds about right for Biden and his anti American staff.
That’s probably not by accident.
VJ-Obama.
You have lots and lots of Muslims with sympathy for the Palestinians in the US and Europe. It doesn’t matter what the issue is, they ALWAYS support what they see as their own.
You have Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the UAE and Turkey with substantial political weight bearing down on us regards Gaza and the Palestinians.
In the Western MSM you find a lot of Muslims.
In US Congress as well as in Europe, you’ll see that the influence of Muslim law makers is on the rise: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Muslim_members_of_the_United_States_Congress#House_of_Representatives
So regards Gaza you’ll have a split message. Our commitment to Israel will be put to the test.
Sadly, as time goes on (as a trend) this will continue. It’s the inevitable outcome of demographic changes occuring in the West, even inside Israel (birthrates of Arab Israeli’s), fueled by globalization and more inclusive/diverse immigration policies.
The merits of the arguments, our consistency in applying them, is really a lesser concern. We pick and choose what arguments we want to use and the rationale really follows economic (Ukraine) or demographic (Israel) considerations.
Strategically it’s better for is Arabs don’t vote for Biden.
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