Anti-war activists are concerned about Donald Trump’s victory in the US Presidential election.
They say that the President-Elect owes much of his victory to economic discontent, and to the refusal of traditionally Democrat voters to endorse Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’s support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza, and for extending the war on the Palestinians to Lebanon.
Harris lost the votes of Muslim and Arab Americans, as well as many others, on this issue, they say.
And this is ironic, because Trump himself is a supporter of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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The Stop the War Coalition has warned that, for all his talk of wanting to stop wars, Trump’s record when he last held office shows that far from delivering peace, he doubled down on US war and proxy wars in Syria, Somalia, Afghanistan, and Yemen.
He also ordered new nuclear missiles, ripped up nuclear treaties and demanded increased NATO military spending.
Stop the War representatives said that while Trump talks of bringing peace to Ukraine, he is committed to an increasingly confrontational position against China. He is also demanding that America’s NATO allies increase their defence spending at the expense of funding areas such as health or education.
Trump has also talked of “two enemies” – outside and inside – and has vowed to defeat that “outside enemy” by mass deportations, reinstating his travel ban on people from predominantly Muslim countries and expanding it to prevent refugees from Gaza entering the US.
“A Harris victory would not have stopped Israel’s genocide in Gaza or drive to war across the Middle East,” said Stop the War convenor Lindsey German.
“But Trump’s racism, Islamophobia and bigotry, and his close relationship with Netanyahu could well enable Israel to pursue its desire for full control of Gaza and the West Bank.
“We face an extremely dangerous situation worldwide, with a growing arms race. We in the anti-war movement must redouble our efforts to end the genocide and wars in the Middle East.
“We also need peace in Ukraine, for the west to stop arming Ukraine, and for an end to the escalation of militarism and conflict aimed at China in the Pacific.”
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Anti-war activists are concerned about Donald Trump’s victory
Anti-war activists are concerned about Donald Trump’s victory in the US Presidential election.
They say that the President-Elect owes much of his victory to economic discontent, and to the refusal of traditionally Democrat voters to endorse Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’s support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza, and for extending the war on the Palestinians to Lebanon.
Harris lost the votes of Muslim and Arab Americans, as well as many others, on this issue, they say.
And this is ironic, because Trump himself is a supporter of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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The Stop the War Coalition has warned that, for all his talk of wanting to stop wars, Trump’s record when he last held office shows that far from delivering peace, he doubled down on US war and proxy wars in Syria, Somalia, Afghanistan, and Yemen.
He also ordered new nuclear missiles, ripped up nuclear treaties and demanded increased NATO military spending.
Stop the War representatives said that while Trump talks of bringing peace to Ukraine, he is committed to an increasingly confrontational position against China. He is also demanding that America’s NATO allies increase their defence spending at the expense of funding areas such as health or education.
Trump has also talked of “two enemies” – outside and inside – and has vowed to defeat that “outside enemy” by mass deportations, reinstating his travel ban on people from predominantly Muslim countries and expanding it to prevent refugees from Gaza entering the US.
“A Harris victory would not have stopped Israel’s genocide in Gaza or drive to war across the Middle East,” said Stop the War convenor Lindsey German.
“But Trump’s racism, Islamophobia and bigotry, and his close relationship with Netanyahu could well enable Israel to pursue its desire for full control of Gaza and the West Bank.
“We face an extremely dangerous situation worldwide, with a growing arms race. We in the anti-war movement must redouble our efforts to end the genocide and wars in the Middle East.
“We also need peace in Ukraine, for the west to stop arming Ukraine, and for an end to the escalation of militarism and conflict aimed at China in the Pacific.”
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