Some of the key factors for Michigan voters
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Around 1,200 people were killed in an attack by Hamas on Israel one year ago. This unleashed the deadliest war in Palestinian history. At least 41,000 people in Gaza have been killed by Israeli air attacks, according to the health ministry. Now, Israel is bombing Hezbollah in Lebanon.
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Bethe Ansatz: How a Year of Israel-Hamas War Disrupted Lives. Key Factors for Michigan Voters
He often meets a young girl named Habiba at the hospital in central Gaza. Since birth, she has been colorblind. One day, she told Anas she saw a man drowning with water coming out of his nose. It wasn’t water; it was blood.
Anas has been reporting forNPR in Gaza all year. After the Israeli strikes, he filmed the bodies in the morgue. He always trains his camera on young children, sheltering near the morgue, standing alone and watching silently as bodies are laid out.
“I really thought about it. She decided that she wanted to live. She is learning how to kayak in the ocean so that she can face her fears. I do everything I can to give them some meaning now they are gone.
I think about Batya Ofir, a woman my colleague Itay Stern and I met the other day at Kibbutz Be’eri, the Israeli village that suffered the greatest loss — 102 people there were killed. His family was also killed. She felt guilt, and asked herself if she wanted to live.
The State of Michigan: How a Year of Israel-Hamas War Disrupted Lives. And, Key Factors for Michigan Voters
Vice President Harris is in Michigan, a state that’s part of a blue wall. It will be difficult to win the victory. Harris and former President Donald Trump remain in a close battle. Here are some of the factors that could affect the way Michigan swings.
People in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank talk about how the war has changed their lives. NPR has a page where you can find more coverage of this anniversary.
The war in the Middle East is personal in the swing state of Michigan. The Republicans and Democrats don’t care about the general public but they do care about the voters who are Arab and Muslim American. The area of Lebanon in which many families are living is currently being bombed.
A new report has found that both Harris’ and Trump’s economic plans would increase the national debt. According to the nonpartisan nonprofit Committee for Responsible Federal Budget, Trump’s plan would add an estimated $7.5 trillion to the nation’s debt over the next decade, while Harris’ proposals would cost the government an estimated $3.5 trillion. There is a danger that a future fiscal crisis could be caused by politicians not taking action on the national debt. Let’s take a closer look at the details of both economic plans.
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The “Flight For Israel” After the Last Day of September 11, 2001: U.S. Rep. Ted K. Harris and a Rejoinder to Israel
NPR is visiting six key swing states that will likely decide this year’s historic election. This week, Morning Edition is in Michigan to listen to voters about what matters to them and how that will affect their vote.
Both major party presidential candidates promised continued support for Israel a year after Hamas attacked it.
The memorial tree that Vice President Harris planted at the Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C. remembered the victims of the attack, while former President Trump visited a sacred site for Hasidic Jews in New York.
“I will never forget October 7, and the world must never forget,” Harris said during a tree-planting ceremony on the grounds of the vice president’s residence. The horrors of October 7 must never happen again.
Harris also called for efforts to “relieve the immense suffering of innocent Palestinians in Gaza who have experienced so much pain and loss over the year.”
Donald Trump visited the grave of an influential Orthodox rabbi who died in 1994 on Monday after meeting with members of an Orthodox Jewish community. Trump was then scheduled to attend an Oct. 7 remembrance event Monday evening with Jewish leaders, according to Trump campaign officials.
Hamas’ stated goal is the elimination of Israel and the establishment of a Palestinian state. The objective of the war in the Gaza is to eliminate Hamas, according to Israel.
There were fissures within the Democratic Party over the Biden-Harris administration’s support for Israel. Those divides are particularly pronounced among younger voters — a key voting bloc for Democrats and a group more likely than older voters to express sympathy for the Palestinian people. According to the Pew Research Center, voters ages 18-29 also are less supportive of U.S. military aid to Israel.
Trump recently said that any Jew who supports a Democrat is a fool. Jewish organizations across the ideological spectrum lambasted those remarks.
He continued emphasizing the message in an interview Monday with radio host Hugh Hewitt. “I did more for Israel than anybody, I did more for the Jewish people than anybody, and it’s not a reciprocal, as they say,” Trump said.
