Tough place for the Vice President to be in…..
Harris DID meet with a Muslim group in Michigan that HAS endorsed her….
She and Biden ARE supporting Israel with military assets in their conflict’s against Hamas , Hezbollah and Iran…..
The collateral damage in Gaza, the West Bank and now Beirut is NOT making these communities happy…..
In 2020 President B iden carried the group’s votes….
The meeting came during a campaign swing through the Rust Belt as Harris has tried to both shore up and showcase the multiracial, multiethnic and even bipartisan coalition she hopes will land her in the White House. Arab Americans make up an unusually large proportion of the Democratic electorate in Michigan, a state critical to Harris’s campaign strategy….
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Earlier Friday, Harris met with leaders from Emgage Action, a Muslim advocacy group that has endorsed her candidacy; the American Task Force on Lebanon; and Hala Hijazi, a prominent Palestinian-American activist who has been outspoken about the scores of family members she has lost in Gaza.
Nearly a year after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel — in which militants rampaged through the Israel-Gaza border and killed 1,200 people while taking some 250 others hostage — the turmoil in the Middle East has metastasized into a larger regional conflagration. Prominent Arab American and Muslim leaders have blasted Biden’s ongoing military and diplomatic support of Israel, whose scorched-earth campaign in Gaza has killed more than 41,000 Palestinians, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, and fueled an ongoing humanitarian catastrophe.
In a statement Friday, Emgage CEO Wa’el Alzayat said his organization sought to “underscore the deep pain our communities feel over the intensifying crisis in Gaza and Lebanon….
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“Emgage Action called on Vice President Harris to do everything in her power, should she win, to end the war and reset U.S. policy in the region,” Alzayat added. “Emgage Action also reiterated the organization and the Muslim community’s disappointment in President Biden’s handling of the crisis that is now widening to a broader regional war.”
Harris’s campaign released a statement about the meeting, saying she “expressed her concern over the scale of suffering in Gaza and … discussed her efforts to end the war in Gaza.” Harris also expressed concern about civilian casualties and displacement in Lebanon, and talked about efforts to prevent a larger regional war, according to the statement.
In Michigan, a battleground state, about 300,000 residents claim ancestry from the Middle East or North Africa. Biden won Michigan by 154,000 votes in 2020, and Harris is expected to face another tightly contested election there…..
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