Summary
Palestinian Americans in Dearborn, Michigan, reacted with anger and defiance to Trump’s proposal for Palestinians to leave Gaza
Many likened it to historic displacement events like the 1948 Nakba, when hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were forced from their homes.
Many see it as supporting Israel’s policy of ethnic cleansing, while some Trump supporters argue he was merely “testing the waters.”
Activist Amer Zahr noted that many in Dearborn secretly voted for Trump but have since gone silent.
The closest to a “rational” (and I use that term very, very, very loosely) explanation I’ve been able to get, as someone who has been asking the same question for months, is that they had to protest vote in order to “send a message” to Democrats that if they don’t put forth an “acceptable” candidate, they will vote for the even worse candidate in hopes of forcing the Democrats to see the error of their ways, see how bad things could really get, then put a “better” candidate forward in 2028.
Now of course, there are about 700 million glaring issues with this line of thinking, and there’s no explanation about how this was supposed to help the people of Palestine at all. Or anybody else for that matter. I’m just saying that in my quest to attempt to find something resembling rationale, this is the closest to a “rational” answer I’ve gotten so far.
They have no concept of prioritization. Yes, the democrats need to be dealt with, but when there’s an ax hanging over your head, you kinda have to deal with that first.
Exactly.