Why Hamas Invasion Is Turning Point For Election ’24

T. Belman. I recently said that the War was having this effect.

While a very small minority in the US and in the EU is marching in support of Hamas, the vast majority of the people are turning against Muslims in both the US and in the EU.

By Dick Morris

Then it all changed and Trump took control. Between October 27th and November 20, Trump led in 16 of 21 surveys, Biden only led in three and two were tied.

Why was the invasion of Israel so decisive?

In the short term, it reminded us all of the dangerous world in which we live as the threat of a wider war loomed increasingly large.

War replaced the economy as the central topic in the news (although voters still cited the economy over war as their main concern).

The country looked at the enfeebled president and saw the need for a strong coherent leader. The Trump indictments receded in our minds and the war in the Mideast crowded them out in our daily consciousness.

But, in the month after the invasion, it is becoming increasingly evident that the war has opened a deeper breech in our politics between sympathy for the Israelis and for the Palestinians.

Recent polls suggest that 41% of Democrats report more sympathy for the Palestinians in the war while only 34% stick to the Party’s traditional support for Israel.

The separation of the parties on the issue becomes daily more evident as pro-Hamas demonstrators clog our streets and dominate our campuses.

In Congress, the progressives, led by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., seek to condition aid to Israel by demanding that they accept Hamas’ terms for an indefinite pause to the Israeli counterattack and the bombing of Gaza while

Republicans, led by Trump, are full throated and unambiguous in their backing of the Jewish State.

In the summer of 2020, our country was similarly rent by protests in cities and campuses by the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, catalyzed by the police murder of a black man — George Floyd.

But then, most of the country sympathized with the demonstrators and remained patient and tolerant of their often outrageous violence and looting.

Trump appeared to be somewhat out of step with his attacks on the demonstrations and support for the police.

But the Gaza invasion, itself, finds favor with few Americans with its wanton cruelty and viciousness. Even when the issue is couched in terms of Palestinian grievance over Israeli “occupation” (there isn’t any) most Americans have not lost their moral clarity distinguishing the innocent from the guilty.

But most Democrats have.

With their increasingly vocal support for Hamas, Democrats have waffled on the issue and have lost the support of much of their Party’s base over it.

No single other issue has so demonstrated how far to the left the Democrats have drifted and they are paying the price for it in the polls.

An amorphous feeling that Trump is the more competent and alert of the candidates and a latent sympathy for his legal persecution by prosecutors and the DOJ, has hardened into solid support for him in the face of the Democratic embrace of Hamas and increasingly unreliable support for Israel.

Whether or not Israel can make the Hamas invasion and its subsequent atrocities a turning point in global opinion, it has decisively turned the American people away from the Democrats.