Israel’s right-wing regime is gleeful about Donald Trump’s impending return to power in the United States. Various Israeli officials have hailed Trump’s victory since Tuesday. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called it “history’s greatest comeback.” His new defense minister, Israel Katz, stated, “Together, we’ll strengthen the U.S.-Israeli alliance.” “God bless Trump,” national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said. Trump “has the most pro-Israel record of any president,” according to Michael Oren, former Israeli ambassador to Washington. “The hope is here that there’ll be more of the same.” A majority of Israelis support Trump.

When Trump was president, he repeatedly capitulated to Israel’s Zionist regime. He unlawfully recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, falsely declared that Israel was sovereign over the occupied Golan Heights in Syria and said that Israeli settlements on Palestinian land were legal despite their violation of international law and prior U.S. policy to the contrary. Trump brokered the Abraham Accords, a series of agreements with some Arab states to establish diplomatic and economic ties with Israel.

With all the latitude Trump offered Israel, its violence toward Palestinians has only escalated since he left office. Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, which continues unabated, has killed more than 43,000 Palestinians and displaced nearly all of the 2.3 million residents of Gaza. But although most Americans, and overwhelming numbers of Democrats, favor restricting or limiting the weapons that the U.S. provides to Israel, the Biden administration has continued to arm it to the teeth.

Unfortunately, during her campaign for president, Kamala Harris refused to say that, if elected, she would quit sending arms to Israel until the genocide stopped.

Two days before the election, while campaigning in the swing state of Michigan, Harris stated, “I will do everything in my power to end the war in Gaza.” But she provided no specifics. It was too little, too late. We may never know what role Harris’s refusal to condemn Israel’s genocide and call for an arms embargo played in her election loss.

Green Party candidate Jill Stein, who campaigned on the issue of ending the genocide, won 22 percent of the vote in Dearborn, Michigan, a city with a majority Arab American population. Harris won 28 percent and Trump won 47 percent. Hussein Dabajeh, a Lebanese American political consultant in the Detroit area, said that Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, a Democrat and Palestinian American, significantly outperformed Harris in Dearborn. She received more than 9,600 votes than Harris.

During the Democratic primaries, nearly 1 million voters — including many Arab, Muslim, and young and progressive voters in several states — voted “uncommitted” in protest against the Biden administration’s complicity in Israel’s genocide.

On July 24, Harris did refrain from presiding over the........

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