Trump is not an improvement in any way
I hear a lot on my social media these days about how Trump is better than Biden on the Gaza war. That’s utter nonsense. It’s true that Trump isn’t particularly fond of Netanyahu (neither is Biden, actually) but that does not mean that he would ever be an ally of the Palestinians or the Palestinian allies.
Donald Trump promised on Monday that if elected president again he will bar immigrants who support Hamas from entering the U.S. and send officers to pro-Hamas protests to arrest and deport immigrants who publicly support the Palestinian militant group.
Trump, president from 2017-2021, said that if elected to a second White House term he will ban entry to the U.S. of anybody who does not believe in Israel’s right to exist, and revoke the visas of foreign students who are “antisemitic.”
He also vowed to step up travel bans from “terror-plagued countries.” He did not explain how he would enforce his demands, including the one requiring immigrants to support Israel’s right to exist under what he called “strong ideological screening.” …
Promising to drastically tighten U.S. immigration laws, Trump said: “If you want to abolish the state of Israel, you’re disqualified, if you support Hamas or the ideology behind Hamas, you’re disqualified, and if you’re a communist, Marxist, or fascist, you are disqualified.”
“We will aggressively deport resident aliens with jihadist sympathies,” Trump said.
He may now say some things on the trail that imply that he would ditch Israel, since he surely senses the tension in the Democratic coalition, but I suspect he’ll be pretty careful about that. He wants to keep Republican Israel supporters in his corner and that means the evangelicals, a huge faction.
Trump is a blatantly racist piece of work who isn’t fond of Jews (except the “good ones” like Jared) but he really, really hates brown and black people. He spits out the word “Hussein” every time he mentions Obama. If people are unaware of his history with Muslim bashing, they need to educate themselves. There is no way in hell that he is going to be helpful to Palestinians in Gaza, the West Bank or Cambridge Massachusetts. He will make an already terrible, complicated situation a million times worse.