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| Jill Stein as a 2015 gala dinner guest of Vladimir Putin |
Why is Jill Stein running for president of the United States? Why do we only see her active in national politics at presidential election time? While she claims to be an environmentalist, why is there no website which lists her accomplishments in saving our planet?
Before answering these questions, let me offer the key arguments I raise: 1) Jill Stein only appears on the national scene during presidential elections; 2) she has not spent time apart from presidential elections building a national movement of environmentally active citizens as her Green Party title would suggest; 3) Jill Stein appears frequently on Russian dictator's Vladimir Putin's RT (Russian Today) propaganda television network, but rarely on appears in American media.
To continue: 4) her political criticism have been directed exclusively at the Biden administration and Democrats, with none directed at Trump; 5) the threat she presents to the Palestinians in Israel's Occupied Territories by helping elect Trump is an existential one which could see them expelled from their ancestral homeland; and 6) her helping Trump win will prevent the implementation of the progressive political agenda for the American middle and working classes which the Harris-Walz administration will enact.
In short, this post suggests that Stein's true motives for entering the 2024 presidential election have more to do with being a spoiler and helping to elect Donald Trump, than the reasons she publicly cites on social media. She disingenuously claims she is trying to break the two party hold on American elections and ending the rule of "corrupt elites." Stein's true goal is to prevent Harris-Walz ticket from winning Michigan and thus acquiring the 270 votes in the Electoral College required to win the presidency.
If we examine her campaign, and the Muslim running mate she chose to join her ticket as her vice presidential candidate, it's clear she's trying to prevent Kamala Harris and Tim Walz from winning in the state of Michigan. Because she has been able to get on the ballot in neighboring Wisconsin, she will try and prevent a Harris-Walz victory there as well. Because Stein knows full well that she has no chance of winning the 2024 election, why does she want Trump to win? Trump Allies Have a Plan to Hurt Biden’s Chances: Elevate Outsider Candidates
One doesn't have to believe in conspiracy theories to realize that Stein has close ties to Russian dictator, Vladimir Putin. This has been obvious now for over a decade. Of course, Putin would like Donald Trump to win the 2024 election because he knows the former president admires him and will certainly withdraw US military and financial aid to Ukraine if he beats the Harris-Walz ticket. Stein is part of Putin's effort to influence the 2024 American presidential election to promote his aggressive goals in Ukraine and Europe to recreate a new Soviet Union in the form of a Eurasian "Greater Russia."
How then does Stein pose a threat not only to the Harris-Walz ticket but to a progressive political agenda and the Palestinian attempts at self-determination? First, we need to disabuse ourselves of the idea that Stein's campaign is about breaking the hold of the Democrats and Republicans on elections. Her goal is not to reform our political system. There is no evidence of her working towards these ends when the United States isn't in an election cycle.
Second, Stein indicates that she strongly supports the Palestinian cause and the need for the Palestinian people to establish their own independent state. This is a goal which I've been advocating for for over 50 years - the two state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian dispute. A two state solution involves Israel and Palestine living side by side in peace and security and, over time, developing ties of economic cooperation and cultural exchanges.
The two state solution is International law because the United Nations voted to create two states, one Jewish and one Arab, through Resolution 181 of November, 1947, following the end of Great Britain's League of Nations Mandate which ended in 1948. Thus, establishing a Palestinian state is not doing the Palestinians a "favor." Rather it is mandated by International Law. Beyond Historical Amnesia, Revenge and the Good-Evil Binary: Solving the Israeli-Palestinian Dispute Once and For All
But Stein is a "Mary Come Lately" supporter of the Palestinian cause. Reviewing her statements over the past 4 years, we see little to indicate that she has done anything to promote Palestinians' right to self-determination. Instead, her criticisms have been directed exclusively at the Biden administration and the Democratic Party. Nothing she has done during her career indicates any special concern for the Palestinian cause.
To win votes in Michigan and Wisconsin, where she is trying to have her name placed on the ballot, Stein has recruited Dr. Butch Ware, a professor who teaches history at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Given Ware's West African heritage and Muslim faith, this choice is clearly designed to attract Arab American and Muslim votes as well as those of people of color, especially in Michigan.
Biden won Michigan by 154,000 votes in 2020. There are 220,000 registered Arab American voters in Michigan and, of course, large African American and Muslim demographics. By constantly attacking Biden, and directing none of her criticism at Trump, Stein's strategy is clear. Defeat the Harris-Walz ticket and throw the election to Trump by giving him Michigan's electoral votes, even if he receives a minority of the national popular vote as in 2016.
Who would be most pleased by a Trump victory? Certainly not Palestinians and those who support the Palestinian cause. As POTUS, Trump was a consistent supporter of Israel's far right. The vaunted Abraham Accords were designed to not only make money for the Trump family, including Jared Kushner, but to isolate the Palestinians still further and undermine their efforts to establish an independent state.Kushner Firm Got Hundreds of Millions From 2 Persian Gulf Nation
It is reported that Trump has asked Netanyahu, who visited his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida after his joint speech to Congress this past July, not to agree to ceasefire in Gaza so as not to strengthen the Harris-Walz ticket who he sees benefitting from ending the massive suffering there.
The Trump campaign's largest single contributor, Miriam Adelson, the widow of the late Las Vegas casino mogul, Sheldon Adelson, and Medal of Freedom winner for her contributions to the Trump campaign, has pledged to donate $100 million. Adelson, a dual-national who served in the Israeli army and lives in Israel, is one of the most powerful supporter of far right extremists in Israel.
For Adelson, as for Israel's far right ultranationalist extremists such as Minsiter of National Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, and Bezalel Smotrich, Minister of Finance, expelling all Palestinians from East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza (the far right's equivalent to "From the River to the Sea") is the central goal of Israeli politics. GOP megadonor Miriam Adelson to fund colossal super PAC for Trump
If Stein is able to win Michigan for Trump, and Netanyahu and the far right are able to hang on to power, the expulsion of the Palestinians from their ancestral homeland is a forgone conclusion. Israel's far right extremists know that Trump would do nothing to stop it. Once expelled to Jordan and into the Sinai Peninsula, the Palestinian cause would come to resemble the fate of native North Americans. They would never be able to return to their former homeland. A Clear and Present Danger: How Benjamin Netanyahu Threatens Peace in the Middle East and Global Stability
As of this writing, a poll shows Netanyahu beating his closest rival, former defense minister General Benny Gantz, in natiopnal elections by 2 points. By keeping the war going in Gaza, Netanyahu is clawing his way back into Israeli politics after being blamed, rightfully so, for the worst attack on the Jewish people since the Holocaust. Netanyahu has also been blamed for funding HAMAS with millions of Qatari dollars to weaken the Palestine National Authority and thereby prevent the establishment of an independent Palestinian state ‘Buying Quiet’: Inside the Israeli Plan That Propped Up Hamas
There is another major player who will be delighted if Jill Stein helps defeat the Harris-Walz ticket, namely Vladimir Putin. Putin fears a Harris-Walz victory because he knows they will continue to support for Ukraine after the Russian dictator ordered an unprovoked invasion in February 2022. Ukraine needs United States and Western support as it struggles to prevent Russia from incorporating it into Putin's Greater Russia . Russians launched pro-Jill Stein social media blitz to help Trump win election, reports say
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| Jill Stein meets with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to celebrate 10th anniversary of RT-Russia's propaganda outlet-in 2015 |
Stein has been on Putin's radar ever since she made her first presidential bid in 2012. While not appearing on American television or other media outlets, Stein has been a frequent guest of Putin's RT (Russia Today) propaganda media outlet. The US Senate launched an investigation after the 2016 election into Stein's ties to Russia. Did Jill Stein Help Elect Donald Trump?
While Stein claims that the US Senate investigation found nothing illegal in her behavior, that isn't the point. Simply being on the Michigan ballot in 2016 helped defeat Hillary Clinton. She now seeks to do the same to Kamala Harris and Tim Walz in Michigan,Wisconsin and other states. Senate Russia investigators are interested in Jill Stein
Jill Stein is a plant for Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. She is exploiting the horrors of the Gaza War which has devastated Palestinian society there and led to the death of over 41,000 Palestinians, the majority women and children. We can and should be critical of Joe Biden for not forcefully preventing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from using American heavy weaponry to turn Gaza into a moonscape.
However, Kamala Harris is the only American political leader who will be able and willing to curb the excesses of Israel's far right extremists. She has made it clear that she supports a Palestinian state as she did in her acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention last week. The two state solution is part of the Democratic Party's official platform, but not part of the GOP's policy agenda. This commitment by the Democrats is the first time ever that an American political party officially committed to establishing an independent Palestinian state.
As Vice President, it has been Harris who has pushed Biden to bring about an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and provide more civilian aid to starving Palestinians. Her concern with civilian deaths was evident in her speech after meeting Netanyahu in Washington, DC, this past July. Harris told him that Israel has the right of self defense but that it matters "how Israel defends itself."
A vote for Harris is a vote for a POTUS who cares about the American people and will bring justice to the Palestinian cause. Solving the Israel-Palestine dispute will also give Israel the peace it longs for and deserves. As Peter Beinart points out in an excellent essay, Harris can start the peace process by invoking the Leahy Law which makes it illegal to use American weaponry to cause human rights abuses. Harris Can Change Biden’s Policy on Israel Just by Upholding the Law
A vote for Jill Stein is a vote against the Palestinian people, against the American middle and working classes and a vote for Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, one a wannabe autocrat, the other a vicious dictator.
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| Presidential Candidate Jill Stein pictured in Moscow’s Red Square during the RT Anniversary Conference. |
