As the US elections approach: The reality in the US arena and the required Palestinian, Arab and Islamic role?

We do not deny the brilliance of AIPAC and its sister organizations and their enormous ability to raise and spend money to support Israel, but we believe that this octopus-like “lobby” is going through an “identity crisis” and that its life has become complicated, especially after all these remarkable transformations taking place in the American political system and society, and after a coalition of progressive interest groups launched an initiative called “Reject AIPAC.”

According to polls - and despite the greater influence of the "Zionist lobby" in the American elections - there are calculations that say that the votes of Arab Americans this time - in addition to other minorities, may have an impact in the "swing states" which are described as "battleground" states.

And then, let us ask why the US political elite would ignore its vital interests in the Middle East in order to support Israel with absolute support? Indeed, this answer does not stop at the dimensions inherent in the close religious relationship that brought together the Christian Zionist movement (read: the Zionist Christians) with Zionism, but it also brings them together in a convergence of political, strategic, economic and historical interests, which are matters that cannot be overlooked.

As recent years have witnessed a decline in Israel's popularity, especially since the beginning of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip in October 2023, the Palestinian cause has attracted more sympathy within emerging sectors of the Democratic Party, such as: youth, progressive forces, ethnic minorities, and even within the Republican Party, and the increasing frequency of voices calling for American disengagement from Israel and the Arab-Israeli conflict, reducing the American role in the Middle East, and giving priority to internal issues and national interests, with a significant segment of independent voters preferring an isolationist foreign policy and a neutral American position in the Arab-Israeli conflict. The events have led to the establishment of a broad alliance between many forces rejecting American support for the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, demanding a complete ceasefire, finding a just solution to the Palestinian issue, and boycotting companies cooperating with Israel... etc. In addition to this, there is the relative and immediate success of the student movement in American universities (especially the elite universities that govern and graduate the ruling class in the United States and the next generation of leaders), which represented an unprecedented revolution in the world of the Palestinian/Israeli conflict, and will have repercussions after the discovery of the “true, ugly face” of Israel, and the old/new theft of the basic rights of the Palestinian people.

The shift in public opinion from quantitative to qualitative needed a detonator, which came in the form of the ongoing Israeli war of extermination and atrocities, primarily in the Gaza Strip (and the West Bank and Jerusalem as well). The issue exploded, which contributed to a qualitative shift in the American political and societal debate on the Palestinian issue, as for the first time the issue of support for Israel became a controversial issue among the political forces in American society. It is expected that these developments will have an impact on American foreign policy in the medium and long term, especially with the exit of the older generations, who are more loyal to Israel, from the political sphere, and the rise of the younger generations to leadership positions.

What is required after this global exposure is to invest in it in a way that ensures its sustainability and builds on it from the moment until its institutionalization. This is almost the only way that would consecrate, strengthen and consolidate the ugly image of the Zionist entity, and thus the victory of the Palestinian truth over the Israeli narrative, after this truth has become, for the first time, clashing with and dismantling the Israeli narrative that has long dominated American society since the founding of the Zionist state. The process of investing in all this exposure is primarily a Palestinian responsibility, and it does not come and bear fruit except with the necessary support of the Arab and Islamic systems and all the official and popular global forces that witnessed this exposure. It goes without saying that the aforementioned "investment process" requires, first and last, ending the state of Palestinian division, with Palestinian national unity, based on a foundation of "soft" political and diplomatic struggle, in parallel with the various types of "non-soft" resistance (read: armed struggle) that national liberation movements have always used in their battles against occupation, colonialism and oppression in all its forms... and certainly in accordance with what international laws and charters have approved.

Just as Christian Zionism plays a vital role in directing Western policy in general and American policy in particular towards unlimited support for Israel, and its victory whether it is unjust or unjust; there is no alternative but to create and strengthen a Palestinian/Arab/Islamic lobby (in cooperation with honorable Americans) in the United States of America to remove the negative effects created by the American Zionist lobby - and there are many of them - that are not in favor of Arab issues, foremost among which is the Palestinian issue. (Also, see my article entitled "The Fading of Zionist Hype and the Exposure of Israeli Hype", published on several websites starting Thursday 7/4/2024).

The eternal question remains: When will we establish and found an Arab “committee” to confront “AIPAC” and its sisters, especially after the Palestinian cause has acquired more areas of support in American public opinion, and even the world as well?