I wonder how the "can't vote for Kamala because of Gaza" folks are feeling now

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11. If those people were of Palestinian heritage...

or people whose origins traced back to the Middle East in general, I said THEN and NOW, that they could be understood and forgiven for their stance even if it was, in my view, erroneous. They were too closely affected by the events to think straight and I could empathize with their frustration with Biden and his administration. After all I myself felt that by far the worst thing Biden did in his four years was his handling of the Gaza situation. He handed Netanyahu a gift with his lukewarm warnings while simultaneously handing over to Israel all the weapons it wanted. Plus it had been reported that members of Biden’s staff had to push him to remember and reach out to the Palestinian American community, after going out of his way to do all he could to comfort Jewish Americans. It was tone deaf and inexcusable.Because of it I was concerned that Arabic Americans would turn away from Biden and that many of them would be led by emotions by voting for Trump. What I urged us non-Arabic American voters to do was pick up the slack by showing up in force to vote the Democratic ticket anyway. But showing up in force is not what we did and most of those absences had nothing to do with the conflict in Israel.

And now all I see and hear from a bunch of Democrats and progressive pundits (Stephanie Miller, Hal Sparks) blaming EVERYTHING on those who did their whole “protest vote” regarding those events. There is not evidence that confirms that caused Kamala from achieving victory. Also it’s damn insensitive to keep going down that road in such petty factions when countless Palestinians have been dying the past couple of years. Many of you are more enraged over that protest against Biden than you are over the slaughter of innocent Palestinians since 2023. Go do some soul searching.