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Representative Dingell is Right: Not Voting for Biden is the Worst Thing for the Middle East and Arab and Muslim-Americans

No matter what Hamas-supporter Rashida Tlaib claims, her anti-Biden campaign only helps one person: Donald J. Trump, and he’s the worst enemy Muslims and Arabs have ever seen in an American President

Stephen Shaiken, Author & Blogger
3 min readFeb 28, 2024
Rep. Debbie dingell (D-MI.) She warns against the folly of helping Donald Trump in Michigan. She stands in stark contrast to Representative Rashida Tlaib one district over, who supports Hamas and does not believe Israel should exist as a Jewish State. (Image courtesy of The Hill.)

Representative Debbie Dingell is right, and Rep. Rashida Tlaib is dangerously wrong.

Tlaib urged Michigan Democrats to vote “uncommitted” in yesterday’s primary, and around 12–13% did just that. (In 2012, 11% voted the same when President Obama ran for renomination, so the campaign was no exactly a huge success, though the message should be heard and addressed.)

I believe that President Biden is handling the Gaza War as well as any President could, and far better than Trump ever could. That’s why the Tlaib campaign to deny votes to Biden makes no sense. The only alternative to a Biden second term is a Trump second term, and it’s beyond comprehension that anyone sympathetic to Arab or Muslim Americans would want that! Trump tried to ban Muslims from America, legitimized Israeli annexations and illegal settlements, and tied the GOP and Likud by their umbilical

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Stephen Shaiken, Author & Blogger
Stephen Shaiken, Author & Blogger

Written by Stephen Shaiken, Author & Blogger

Criminal lawyer now a writer. Author of a 6 novel thriller series set in Bangkok & one rock novel set in 1971 NYC. Loves guitar, yoga, travel, nature, politics.

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