( The Times of Israel) – My beloved grandmother Savta Greta z”l often liked to use the acronym “Q.E.D.” – an abbreviation of the Latin phrase “quod erat demonstrandum” which means “that which was to be demonstrated” — signifying the end of a mathematical proof or logical argument. Essentially, it indicates the argument has been fully proven.
A week before the US elections I warned that Biden and Harris’s refusal for months to force a ceasefire on Israel, Hamas and Hezbollah—backed by a weapons embargo if Israel does not accept it—would cause Kamala Harris to lose the elections to Donald Trump.
Q.E.D.
In Hebrew, the equivalent acronym is:
מ.ש.ל – מה שצריך להוכיח [M.Š.L – Ma shetzarikh lehochee’ach]
It wasn’t just Muslim and Arab Americans staying home or voting 3rd party. Massive swaths of the center-left electorate are sickened by the ongoing massacres in Gaza and Lebanon. To a lesser degree, they are also appalled by our continued support and weapons deliveries to fund a seemingly “war-with-no-end” in Ukraine instead of focusing on economic and bread-and-butter issues which the average American really cares about.
Both these bloody conflicts are continuing solely because they are financed and green-lighted by the Biden Administration. The thousands of Americans who stayed home or voted for Trump saw the US pouring billions of dollars into sustaining and keeping alive these bloody conflicts instead of using our superpower status and economic leverage to end these conflicts.
So Kamala Harris didn’t lose because she’s a woman or because she’s black. She lost because she and her party represented war mongering and war profiteering rather than helping the average American improve their health care, their paycheck, and their job prospects.
“QED,” Digital, Dream / Dreamland v3, IbisPaint, Clip2Comic, 2024.
Senator Bernie Sanders, who boldly supports a weapons embargo, pointed to this utter failure in his scathing letter today to the Democratic Party leadership, saying:
Today…we remain the only wealthy nation not to guarantee health care to all as a human right and we pay, by far, the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs. We, alone among other countries, cannot even guarantee paid family and medical leave.
Today, we are left to ponder the “what ifs”: what if Biden and Harris forced a compromise on Putin and Zelensky in Ukraine? What if they stopped financing an unending, bloody conflict which Ukraine has no chance of winning anyway, and brokered a peace agreement between the two countries?!
More importantly, what if Biden and Harris—by threatening a weapons embargo on Israel — had ended the killing of tens of thousands of women and children (as of Aug. 15, 2024, per the United Nations, most of Gaza’s 40,000 killed are women and children), stopped the siege and the starvation – and brought home safely the hundred or so Israeli hostages? What if they had used that same leverage to really start a process—which admittedly will be difficult—to end the apartheid and occupation in the Israel-Palestine space?
While we will never know for certain, in all likelihood the Democrats would have prevailed—both in the Presidential and Congressional elections—and we would not be punished with the frightening prospect of President Trump.
Reprinted from The Times of Israel with the author’s permission.
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