OPINIONS
Wed 06 Nov 2024 8:17 am - Jerusalem Time
Elections that occupy the world... do not occupy us
The world is preoccupied with the American elections, especially these days when the Democratic and Republican candidates are competing for the presidency of the US states, so that all eyes are on the election results and the announcement of the winner who will ascend to the White House, while a scene of Palestinian disengagement from these elections prevails, nor what could result from them in terms of the victory of Donald Trump or Kamala Harris. The extent of the clear and large bias towards Israel from both candidates and parties is the same, and this is America’s permanent policy towards Israel, which has not changed since the establishment of the entity. The permanent bias in all years and with every party, whether Democratic or Republican, is a well-known characteristic, a permanent hateful tune, and the clear hostility to the cause of our people, their self-determination and their obtaining of their legitimate rights, is the approach of both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, who competed during the election campaign to support the entity, its government, its ongoing war, and its support in all international and UN forums.
In particular, the Palestinian is not concerned with these elections, and cannot rely on an American position after what we have witnessed during more than a year of the war of extermination in Gaza, and after all the support that America has provided to the entity, financially, politically and militarily. Nor can we bet that America can change its positions in the future, as the two candidates are experienced, and the two candidates have made their statements during the election campaign period, during which we witnessed great fanaticism and extremism, in continuing to side with and support the entity, and not recognizing the Palestinian right and the necessity of stopping the extermination and holding the occupation government accountable for its crimes. Rather, the two candidates competed to threaten to provide more means of support for the extremist and hateful racism upon which the agenda of the Netanyahu government was built, which is very comfortable, after the American administration provided it with cover to continue its crimes, and to continue its massacres and operations of destruction and devastation, and it is continuing with its policy as long as America is not concerned with stopping the extermination and stopping the operations of ethnic cleansing.
Whether Trump or Harris succeeds, there is no difference in American policy towards our national cause and towards many Middle Eastern issues. Betting that America can change its policies is not something that can be relied upon very much, especially in the foreseeable future, which explains the Palestinian indifference to who will win these elections. Both threaten and promise, both express complete bias towards the entity, both share the same vision, and both are bitter matters.
These days, when the world is preoccupied with the US state elections, the Palestinian is only concerned with his fate in Gaza and the war that has eaten away at him and has not been satisfied. He is holding on to all the strength he has to preserve his land and homeland, and to confront the plans being prepared by the occupation government, which pose an existential threat to him, through policies of nibbling, annexation, Judaization, mass killing, and ethnic cleansing. As for which candidate will succeed, there is no difference because both are two sides of the same coin.
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