United States: Democrats increasingly believe that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is attempting to meddle in US domestic politics by failing to answer President Biden’s calls for a peace deal in Gaza and confronting Hezbollah and Iran weeks before the US election.
The rapid escalation of this confrontation between Israel, Hezbollah, and a Hezbollah ally, Iran, has undercut Biden’s efforts to achieve his own kind of peace through diplomacy.
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With its broader conflict seeming to grow ever more likely, this apparently has opened the door for former President Trump and dance that the world is spiraling ‘out of control’ under Biden, the Hill reported.
The growing threat of a broader conflict has opened the door for former President Trump to argue that the world is “spiraling out of control” on Biden’s watch.
For Vice President Harris, one of a handful of must-win states for Democrats, it is a political liability of even more seriousness given Biden’s polling numbers with Muslim Americans continue to drop as the violence in the region mounts.
On Thursday, Trump visits Michigan at a rally in Saginaw. At the same time, Netanyahu’s relationship with even the most pro-Israel Democrats has grown ever more adversarial.
What are the other dignitaries stating?
After being criticized in March for calling Netanyahu a “major obstacle” to peace and urging Israel to hold new elections, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-New York) had to address critics Tuesday of his strategy to get Israel to search for peace with the Palestinians.
During this time, Biden also called Israel’s offensive in Gaza “over the top.”
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), who is a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, stated, “I certainly worry that Prime Minister Netanyahu is watching the American election as he makes decisions about his military campaigns in the north and in Gaza” the CNN reported.
Moreover, “I hope this is not true, but it is certainly a possibility that the Israeli government is not going to sign any diplomatic agreement prior to the American election as a means, potentially, to try to influence the result,” Murphy said while alluding to divisions among Democrats over the war.
Erosion of support for Biden-Harris
According to a poll of 500 Arab American voters conducted Sept. 9–20, Trump and Harris are in nearly a dead heat, with the Republican leading by a point, 42 percent to 41 percent.
That’s a huge erosion of support for the Biden-Harris administration compared to where we were in 2020, where Biden had 59 percent of the Arab American vote.