The Kamala Harris presidential campaign on Wednesday put forward a powerful, if inept, surrogate – former Democratic President Bill Clinton – to explain away Palestinian deaths to Arab Americans and other voters in the state of Michigan.
It did not go well.
This would come as no surprise to those who recall that in 2002 Clinton declared, “The Israelis know that if the Iraqi or the Iranian army came across the Jordan River, I would personally grab a rifle, get in a ditch and fight and die.”
He has declared no intent to fight Israeli apartheid or the current genocide decimating Gaza and would surely argue those facts. The Democratic Party, which eventually moved against apartheid in South Africa, is currently rejecting any meaningful policy to stop the Gaza genocide or support Palestinian freedom and equal rights. ….more
