To further this point, there are 200,000 registered Muslim voters in Michigan. 16 electoral votes that Biden barely clinched with around 155,000 votes.

For lots of Americans, casting a ballot can take hours after a full day of work.

With the recent (last ten years) political silliness, I’ve started to schedule election day(s) off each year.

But I want to talk about something you may not know, or didn’t mention, that makes your point even more important. In some places, the polling place/election booths are literally in the lobby of an old folks home.

What this means, is while you and I and all the working people in this country have to schedule time off, and work around their jobs to vote, Ethel, who can barely walk, doesn’t remember her kid’s names, and thinks Gerald Ford is the current president gets to just drive her Rascal down to the lobby to vote. And it’s easy to sway the people in the retirement home with conservative talking points.

That you say “probably gonna win.” is a risk I’m loathe to take.

Yeah makes sense. Also I guess I didn’t consider the voter turnout part. Yeah he, and America, might be fucked.

That aside, I’d say a Muslim that actually looks at policy would consider republicans to be like a lot worse than democrats, but that puts too much trust in the average voter.

Of course I can only guess what happens in secret negotiations, but my guess is that their main goal is to keep this conflict contained in Gaza rather than involving Hezbollah and other Iranian proxies. To this end, the US might counsel avoiding actions that would be particularly provocative even if they serve a legitimate military purpose. But despite any disagreement, the appearance of total solidarity is essential, since Iran is much less likely to get involved if that appears to risk war with the US.

This Israeli historian and Holocaust scholar disagrees with you.

https://www.newsweek.com/holocaust-historian-israel-committing-genocide-raz-segal-1835346

It seems you are the one who doesn’t understand the term. There’s a very specific definition for it established by the UN: https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/genocide.shtml

Namely:

In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

Killing members of the group;

Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group

Nowhere does it say every member of the population needs to be murdered. And Israel is very clearly checking the first three boxes at the very least.

The UN Genocide Convention lists five acts that fall under its definition. Israel is currently perpetrating three of these in Gaza: “1. Killing members of the group. 2. Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group. 3. Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.”

Israel has loudly proclaimed this intent. Israeli Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant declared it in no uncertain terms on October 9th: “We are imposing a complete siege on Gaza. No electricity, no food, no water, no fuel. Everything is closed. We are fighting human animals, and we will act accordingly.”

https://jewishcurrents.org/a-textbook-case-of-genocide

They’re ethnically cleansing Gaza as we speak. I understand you are likely an American with pro-Israel sentiment, likely born out of a respect for the Jewish people and decades of history of America supporting this state, but you need to stop missing the forest for the trees here. They are committing war crimes on the daily, bombing hospitals and refugee camps. This is not acceptable and is a crime against humanity.

Ah, right, Hamas is the one committing genocide. Of course! Why didn’t we see it before!