Why do you think Genocide Joe – POTUS’s new nickname advocated by American Muslim champions of the Abandon Biden campaign ahead of the US election – rushed a Treasury under- secretary to Ankara to get President Erdogan to tone down his rhetoric about Hamas? One of this particular Gaza massacre’s many peculiar features is that the media onslaught isn’t quite as complete as all the other times.

And it’s taken thousands of dead Palestinian women and children to do this, but already some platforms echoing the desperate western need to support Israel’s “right to self defence” in response to Hamas’s “terrorism” are beginning to call the Jewish state’s response “disproportionate”.

That’s becoming a problem for Joe’s re-election campaign as Muslim voters call for a blanket boycott of the Democrats in swing states like Michigan. Biden barely clinched the state in 2020 by about 150,000 votes. And with 206,000 registered Muslim voters, Michigan could well become the difference maker next year, tossing the Democrats out and rubbishing Biden to the dustbin of history as a one-time has-been who tarnished his own legacy by helping Israel commit what senior UN official Craig Mokhiber called a case of “textbook genocide” in Gaza.

Yet Erdogan would have none of it. He continues to call Hamas “freedom fighters” and “holy warriors fighting for their........

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