Some Michigan voters who sat in the election, voted for third-party candidates, or voted for President Trump, are reconsidering their decision after the US proposed on Tuesday. teeth,”take over“The Gaza Strip will rebuild it and move the Palestinians elsewhere.
In the town of Dearborn, Michigan, 43% voted for President Trump in the 2024 election, for each of the largest Muslim population in the country. Democrat candidate Vice President Kamala Harris won 37% of the vote, according to city election data.
Sarah Chaburn, a university senior at Dearborn who voted for Trump, said she was “disappointed” by his proposal, but was skeptical that “he would actually implement what he’s saying.” He said that.
Asked if she regrets voting, Chaburn said “a little” but pointed to Trump’s involvement. Cerez-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas.
“If I voted for Kamala, I think the war is probably still going on. That’s an unfortunate situation,” Chabaan said.
That was Trump’s idea for Gaza I defended White House officials and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said “it’s really worth pursuing this path.” However, the proposal was largely panned by the American Arab-American and Muslim organizations. Middle Eastern countries I also rejected the premise.
On Thursday morning, Trump wrote that the Gaza Strip would be “on handed over to the United States by Israel at the end of the battle.” He also said the US military would not be involved, a point of sticking to Republicans in Congress. He has not revealed many details about the idea. Criticism On the displacement of the Palestinians, the abandonment of two state solutions and the idea that the US will control Gaza.
“The US will slowly and carefully begin working with great development teams around the world to build what will become one of the greatest and most epic developments on the planet,” said President. wrote. On Tuesday, he suggested that it could be a “Middle Eastern Riviera.”
Harris has become 15,000 Dearborn voters than President Biden had four years ago. That gap contributed to Harris’ overall loss on the battlefield, where Trump won 80,103 votes.
Amer Zahr, who voted for a third party for the president but voted for Democrats for other firms, said many people at Dearborn don’t believe Trump’s proposal would actually happen, saying, “He said he was About the idea that someone who doesn’t know what they’re talking about said was an outrageous idea.
But he has solidified his responsibility for a campaign that will not do any more to beat disgruntled Arab-American and Muslim voters. He and other Michigan residents CBS News raised Trump’s visit as Dearborn candidates and spoke about the lack of Palestinian-American speakers at the Democratic National Convention.
Saar suggested that there is a “stylist difference” between Biden and Trump in the Israel-Hamas War, but they still share “blind support for Israel.”
“Now, Democrat politicians and liberals are not their guys anymore and are willing to stand up a little,” he said. “The real news story is that Democrats and Liberals can reject the concept of ethnic cleansing for Palestinians. I hope they continue doing that.”
“The vote for Trump wasn’t really a vote for Trump,” said Osami Siblani, the Arab American News publisher who didn’t vote for president.
“It was a vote for the Biden-Harris administration because they couldn’t stop the massacre from happening in Gaza,” Siblani said. “We didn’t support Trump. We didn’t support Harris. In fact, we encouraged the community not to vote at the top of the ticket.”
Shiburani also denounced Trump’s proposal to own the Gaza Strip as “insanity.”
“People who burned their homes in Los Angeles due to the fire, are they just going to leave it?
Much of Gaza was destroyed by Israeli military strikes that began after Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel on October 7, 2023. Over the past two weeks, approximately 200,000 cases The evacuated Palestinians have returned In the northern part of the Gaza Strip, after Israel allowed them to campaign. Certain battle agreement With Hamas.
Zaynah Jadallah, Palestinian-American and director of the Michigan Chapter of the American Council on Islamic Relations (Cair), said Palestinians “like an opportunity to call them a part of their property or talk about it.” He said that listening is “very dehumanized.” The investments of real estate or when it is their land. ”
Other Michigan Arab Americans and Palestinian leaders also denounced Trump’s proposal. Dearborn mayor Abdullah Hammaud wrote that Trump’s proposal was “another chapter of the ongoing genocide.”
“The forced expulsion of Palestinians on their lands will be ethnic cleansing,” said Dawud Walid, executive director of the Cair Michigan Chapter.
“Perhaps some of the people in our community are guessing they’ll never again vote for Trump,” he added.
According to the Associated Press, “Arab Americans,” voter outreach to the Arab-American community, has been renamed “Arab Americans for Peace” on Wednesday as a result of Trump’s proposal did.
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