Wednesday, March 05, 2008

How Should Arab Americans Vote?

From my little chats with friend her and there, they all, and rightly so, are concerned with war in the Arab East and mostly about Palestine. Many try to track presidential candidate to measure their tendencies. Is he pro Arab, is she pro Israel, did he give speeches for the Jewish lobby, etc. Over the last 50 years, not a single American president was pro Arab, not even a candidate was openly pro Arab. Presidents come and go, candidates come and go, and the situation in the Arab East just gets worse for the Arabs.
The concerns of Arab Americans are understandable but irrelevant to the political process. Arab Americans do not have any power to change the course of events in the East. The events have geopolitical, economic, and historical forces that are out of the control of immigrant communities, especially a small fragmented one like ours. Therefore, Arab American should be truthful and consistent with their mission, and should vote to whoever makes their life better her in the US, because that is why they are immigrants in this country, searching for a better life. They should leave the power struggle for those in power and their people, they know better.

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