Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich welcomed President-elect Donald Trump’s electoral victory Monday, saying that “the time has come” to extend full Israeli sovereignty over the occupied West Bank.
He made the comment a day after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a recorded statement that he has spoken three times with Trump since the election and that they “see eye to eye on the Iranian threat.
If a convention to pick a candidate was so bad, why did the Republicans win with it? The Republicans had proper primaries. They won.
As for the importance of Gaza, here are some early numbers analyzed
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/11/election-harris-gaza-policy
I do appreciate the effort to source your argument. That is an opinion piece by someone who already had a strong opinion about US Israeli policy. I get people cared. I certainly get that Arabs cared. But it’s going to take some time, if we ever know, why things turned out this way.
One thing seems certain even in that article: unless there is a hotbed of Gaza sympathy in rural Pennsylvania, Gaza didn’t swing the election.