It's really stunning.
The basic Palestinian cause should be a sympathetic one. They were displaced from their homes in a war, made refugees, and many have no homes.
And yet, they do everything possible to make themselves detested and/or ineffective and unsympathetic.
In 1970 the PLO attempted to overthrow Jordan, where many Palestinians had taken refuge.
That ended up with them going to Lebanon, which they destabilized.
The treaty that resulted in them having self governance on the West Bank and Gaza ended up with them electing unrealistic flaming radicals in Gaza, who of course attacked Israel in a shocking manner on October 7, 2023.
The US supported Israel, as it naturally could have been expected to do, which bizarrely lead Palestinians in the US to support Donald Trump for the Presidency, which has to be about the most dimwitted thing they could have done.
And now
2 Israeli Embassy aides are killed in a shooting in Washington, D.C., officials say
This gives Donald Trump his Reichstag Fire moment.
And cover for the current government in Israel to occupy as much of Gaza as it wishes to.
No matter how wide, or narrow, this act of terrorism was, Palestinians in the US, and immigrant populations in general, are really going to get pounded by the Administration. This will be the rallying cry for "deport!". And it'll be the thing which causes the Trumpites to say "See? There really is a war going on. . . it's an emergency. . . deport them all".
And many rank and file Americans will have no sympathy for them at all.
For that matter, the same feelings exist in the UK, where those cries will echo.
