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☆ The Killing of a Hamas Leader Is Part of a Larger War - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-01 | by ( Matthew Duss | Nancy Okail | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Indeed, within hours, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, declared his intention to attack Israel. The almost certain escalation from the Haniyeh assassination signals a fundamental flaw in President Biden’s Gaza policy: the hope that the Gaza war could be contained to Gaza. But for months, the war has already been spreading — to Yemen, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and now, to Iran. Some in the U.S. foreign policy establishment argue that since neither the United States nor Iran desires full-scale war, cooler heads will prevail. The current precarious moment is the result of a series of false assumptions that U.S. policy was built on since well before the war began.

Persons: Ismail Haniyeh, Israel —, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Israel, Biden’s Locations: Tehran, Gaza, Biden’s Gaza, Yemen, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran, U.S, United States, Israel, Saudi Arabia

☆ US officials who resigned over Biden’s Gaza policy are working together to put pressure on admin
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-08 | by ( Jennifer Hansler | Kylie Atwood | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

CNN —A group of US officials who publicly resigned over the Biden administration’s Gaza policy are banding together to support ongoing dissent and put pressure on the government to change course. Many of the officials who resigned publicly said they would instead seek to have an impact outside the government. Some of those who publicly resigned had particular breaking points; others said it was the collective toll of incidents throughout the conflict. Biden administration officials have said that they respect differences of opinions. Many officials told CNN they spoke with other officials who had resigned publicly to seek advice before going public with their own resignations.

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☆ ‘Defeat by Truth’: Biden’s Gaza Critics Start an Anti-Trump Campaign
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-29 | by ( Katie Glueck | Maya King | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Michael McBride was an early backer of a cease-fire in Gaza, publicly breaking with President Biden’s support for the war months before many other Democrats arrived in a similar place. Nearly five months before Election Day, Mr. McBride, a co-founder of the group Black Church PAC, remains critical of how the administration has stood by Israel. But he is now leading an effort, alongside other progressive Black activists, strategists and faith leaders, that would indirectly help Mr. Biden by working to defeat former President Donald J. Trump. It is one of the clearest signs yet that at least some of Mr. Biden’s critics on the left will still work to stop Mr. Trump — even if they are lukewarm on the incumbent president. But, he said, “we can’t wait for the Biden administration to change their course before we start to sound the alarm.”

Persons: Michael McBride, Biden’s, McBride, Biden, Donald J, Trump, “, Mr Organizations: Black Church PAC, Trump, Way Christian Center Locations: Gaza, Israel, Berkeley, Calif

President Biden and his allies had reasons for both hope and concern after a Michigan primary election that revealed the party’s painful divisions over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and confronted him with his largest measure of Democratic opposition to date. He avoided his anxious supporters’ darkest predictions by winning the Tuesday primary, 81 percent to 13 percent, over an “uncommitted” movement that sprang up to protest his backing of Israel. Yet more than 100,000 voters registered their disapproval of him, signaling serious discontent among Arab Americans, young voters and progressives as he tries to stitch back together his winning 2020 coalition. Democratic unease with Mr. Biden’s handling of the Mideast war will not go away as the presidential primary calendar moves on to more than a dozen Super Tuesday states next week, but his allies are optimistic that Michigan will serve as the high-water mark for resistance to the president within his party. Though many states have the option for Democrats to cast protest votes against Mr. Biden, they are not nearly as likely as Michigan was to become a national litmus test for his popularity or his handling of the war in Gaza.

Persons: Biden Organizations: Democratic, Mr Locations: Michigan, Israel, Gaza

☆ Opinion: In the Michigan primary, Biden shouldn’t fear Rashida Tlaib’s threats
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-27 | by ( Opinion John Halpin | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

John Halpin Courtesy John HalpinProgressive activists have decided to use this interlude to attack Biden for his centrist positions on immigration, energy policy and the Israel-Hamas war, in particular. Like the senators from his birth state, Biden should ignore these threats from the left and stand up strongly for his vital center perspective. Looking at Michigan specifically, the threat of Arab Americans tanking Biden must also be put in wider perspective. Even with these larger trends in the state, the authors find: “In Dearborn, Dearborn Heights, Hamtramck, and Livonia — the Michigan cities with the highest proportion of Arab American voters — Biden defeated Trump by a combined 38,000 or so votes. Democratic support for more moderate proposals backed by Biden is even higher: Three-quarters of Democrats support a plan to increase the number of immigration judges to speed up action on asylum claims.

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☆ Biden’s Gaza problems are deeper than just being interrupted in public
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-27 | by ( Camila Dechalus | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

The administration appears to be struggling with finding Arab American and Muslim leaders who are willing to even meet with White House officials, and no Muslim or Arab American groups have endorsed Biden’s reelection bid. And I think that’s a pretty good descriptor of Arab American voters right now.”The ceasefire calls are coming from a diversity of progressive groups, including those representing Jewish voters, voters of color and young people – key parts of Biden’s winning 2020 coalition. In the last presidential election cycle, Biden received the support of several prominent Muslim American elected officials and community leaders. At least 146,620 of the 200,000 Muslim American voters in Michigan cast a ballot in the 2020 election cycle, according to an analysis by Emgage. Some Arab American and Muslim voters say even if Biden’s campaign ramps up their outreach, it will be too late.

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☆ Biden’s Gaza Response Frustrates Arab-Americans, Progressives
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-19 | by ( Sabrina Siddiqui | Tarini Parti | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

During a visit to Israel, President Biden said he believed Israel wasn’t responsible for a deadly blast at a hospital compound in Gaza. Israel and militants blame each other for the explosion. Photo: Avi Ohayon/Israel GPO/Zuma PressWASHINGTON—President Biden reiterated his staunch support for Israel in the wake of attacks by Hamas militants during a visit to Tel Aviv on Wednesday. But back in the U.S., he’s faced criticism from progressives, Muslims and Arab-Americans, who say his sympathy for lost Palestinian lives and the humanitarian crisis in Gaza is too little too late.

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