Some Michigan voters who sat in the elections, voted for a third -party candidate or voted for President Trump are now reviewing his decision after he proposed on Tuesday that the United States “take control“The Gaza Strip, rebuilds and relocates the Palestinians in other places.
In the city of Dearborn, Michigan, who has the largest per capita Muslim population in the country, 43% voted for President Trump in the 2024 elections. The nominee democratic vice president, Kamala Harris, won 37% of the votes, substantially Lower than 68% of former President Joe Biden won in 2020, according to the city’s electoral data.
Sarah Chabaan, a last year’s student from Dearborn who voted for Trump, said she was “disappointed” with his proposal, but remained skeptical, “he would really implement what he is saying.”
When asked if he regrets his vote, Chabaan said “a little” but pointed out the participation of Mr. Trump in the High Fire Agreement between Israel and Hamas.
“If I had voted for Kamala, I think the war could have been happening. That is the unfortunate situation,” Chabaan said.
Trump’s Gaza idea has been defended For White House officials, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said “it was worth following this way.” But the proposal was largely highlighted by American and Muslim Arab organizations in the United States Middle East countries He also rejected the premise.
Thursday morning, Mr. Trump wrote that the Gaza Strip “would be delivered to the United States by Israel at the end of the fight.” He also declared that no American troops would be involved, a conflict point for the Republicans of Congress. He has not revealed many more details about the idea, which caused immediate criticism With respect to the displacement of the Palestinians, the abandonment of a solution of two states and the idea that the United States would control Gaza.
“The United States, working with large development teams from around the world, would begin slowly and carefully the construction of what would become one of the largest and most spectacular developments of its kind on earth,” the president wrote. On Tuesday, he suggested that it could be the “Riviera del Middle East.”
Harris ended with 15,000 voters less than Dearborn than President Biden obtained four years before. That gap contributed to the general loss of Harris in the state of Battleground, where Trump won by 80,103 votes.
Amer Zahr, who voted for a third party for president but a democrat for other offices, said that many in Dearborn do not believe that Trump’s proposal really happens, and said it is “a scandalous idea that someone who does not know what he is talking about .
But he set the fault of the Democratic Party and the campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris for not doing more to win about Arab Arabic and Muslim voters disaffected. He and other residents of Michigan, CBS News, spoke mentioned Mr. Trump’s visit as a candidate for Dearborn, and the lack of an American Palestinian speaker at the National Democratic Convention.
Zahr suggested that although there is a “style difference” between Biden and Mr. Trump in the Israel-Ahamas War, they still share a “blind support for Israel.”
“Now, democratic politicians and liberals are willing to face him a little because he is no longer his man,” he said. “The real news is that Democrats and liberals can reject the notion of ethnic cleaning of the Palestinians. I hope they continue to do so.”
Osami Siblani, the editor of The Arab American News, who did not vote for any presidential candidate, said “The vote for Trump was not really a vote for Trump.”
“It was a vote against the administration of Biden-Harris, because they could not prevent the butcher shop in Gaza from happening,” Siblani said. “We do not support Trump. We do not support Harris. We actually recommend that our community does not vote for the top of the ticket.”
Siblani also denounced Mr. Trump’s proposal to own the Gaza Strip as “crazy.”
“Were people whose houses were burned in Los Angeles by fire, will they simply leave it? Or they will rebuild and live there? People don’t leave their lands.”
A large part of Gaza has been decimated by Israeli military attacks that began after Hamas terrorist attack against Israel on October 7, 2023. During the last two weeks, around 200,000 The displaced Palestinians returned to the northern part of the Gaza Strip after Israel authorized its movement as part of the High Fire Agreement With Hamas.
Zaynah Jadallah, a chapter of Michigan by American and Palestinian director of the American Relationship Council (Cair), said it was “very dehumanizing” for the Palestinians to listen to Gaza known as “a property, or talk about it as an opportunity for a property for a property real estate or an investment when it is your land. “
Other Arab and Palestinian leaders of Michigan also condemned Trump’s proposal as well. Abdullah Hammoud, the mayor of Dearborn, wrote that Trump’s proposal “is another chapter in the ongoing genocide.”
Dawud Walid, executive director of the Cair Michigan chapter, said that “any forced displacement of Palestinians in their lands would be ethnic cleaning.”
“Perhaps some people at this time in our community are guessing their vote for Trump,” he added.
A group that helped Mr. Trump in his reach of voters to the American Arab community, “American Arabs for Trump,” changed his name on Wednesday to “American Arabs for peace” as a result of Mr.’s proposal. Trump, according to him Associated press.
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