Arab and Muslim leaders call former US president’s comments ‘insulting’ and ‘counterproductive’.

Former United States President Bill Clinton is facing backlash from US Muslim and Arab Americans after saying Israel has been “forced” to kill civilians in Gaza and suggesting the country was in the Holy Land “first” – before the Palestinians.

Speaking at a rally for Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris in Michigan, a crucial swing US state with large Arab and Muslim populations who the Democrats are trying to win over, Clinton said he understood people’s concerns about the bloodshed in Gaza, but said Israel had no choice but to inflict large civilian losses, even as it is accused of genocide in the International Court of Justice.

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    621·
    9 hours ago

    For fucks sake, the Democratic establishment just seems to be composed almost entirely of people who are absolute champions at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

    Seriously, I’m moving if Harris can’t pull out a win.

    • Intergalactic@lemmy.world
      28·
      9 hours ago

      I wish I could move, but I wouldn’t have enough money to do so, nor do I have the necessary “high skilled worker attributes” either.

      • Asafum@feddit.nl
        101·
        9 hours ago

        Same here, I feel your pain…

        The best I could hope for is possibly teaching English in another country, but I don’t know the exact requirements for that.

    • Omega@lemmy.world
      51·
      8 hours ago

      If you live in a blue state, have you thought about moving to a red state? If enough people do, they’ll turn blue. (Seriously, California could easily flip the federal government by taking over a few red states. Please come to Arkansas and help us save it.)

          • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
            2·
            34 minutes ago

            I think this applies to all red states, because basically all American cities lean left, but in the end your life is being affected by a republican state government and that can’t be a good time. I mean you could be living in a lefty haven in Texas but you still can’t get an abortion, for example.

        • Omega@lemmy.world
          5·
          6 hours ago

          The low cost of living is nice.

          Worrying about literally everything that the state government does and knowing that my neighbors, at best, care more about political alignment with their neighbors than they care about the wellbeing of the people or their freedom is not nice.

      • Blackbeard@lemmy.worldEnglish
        61·
        8 hours ago

        There are just under 200,000 registered Republicans in Wyoming. If ~200,000 Democrats moved there long enough to establish residence, they could get a Democratic senator in 2026. Doesn’t seem insurmountable.

  • masterofn001
    41·
    8 hours ago

    1. bill doesn’t even know what the meaning of “is” is.

    2. stfu bill

    3. Hillary was on his dick before the woman he exploited with a cigar in hand. Yet bill is still alive.

    4. stfu bill

    5. his willy may be slick but his skull is thick. History (including the fucking torah), archaeological records, genetic records, all say Israel was not first, and were, in fact, the ones doing all the genocide.