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 The thing I didn't get about groups like Arab Americans for Trump during last year's presidential campaign is: were they aware that Trump had been President before? I mean, you didn't have to guess what Trump's approach to the Israel-Palestine conflict would be. He had four years of open hostility to anything the Palestinians wanted. He moved the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and shuttered most services that used to be provided to Palestinians. He recognized Israel's annexation of the Golan Heights. He proposed a peace plan for the I-P conflict that required massive painful conditions on the part of Palestinians while giving Israel the right to annex large swaths of the West Bank. He declared that Israel's West Bank settlements would no longer be considered illegal by the U.S. All of these were huge breaks from prior U.S. policies, by both Democratic and Republican administrations, that were widely viewed as against Palestinian interests.

Trump's record on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was really quite clear. While his recent proposal of U.S.-assisted genocide in Gaza is definitely a step further than anything he has ever proposed before, it is also consistent with both his erratic off-the-cuff style, his disregard for human rights, and his clear devaluation of Palestinian interests that was abundantly clear by the end of Trump's first term. I understand the Palestinian-American community's anger against the Biden Administration since October 2023. But any Palestinian who thought that Trump would be better than Harris on that issue was closing their eyes to reality.