Voters punish European and American parties for supporting Israel’s war on Gaza

With national elections set to take place in at least 64 countries in 2024, representing 49% of the world’s population, all eyes are on trends that suggest that, halfway through the year, it could well be a startling end for many and a new beginning for others.

Earlier this year, elections in India and Pakistan produced the expected results, as did Russia, Mexico and even South Africa.

Europeans punish governing parties that fail to fulfill their domestic responsibilities while funding foreign wars at the expense of their citizens’ ability to survive.

Yet, every time election results come in, the caretakers of the political hen house continue to pretend they never saw them coming.

Take the recent EU elections, where Europeans objected to their governments’ self-serving actions at the expense of others.

The ruling parties in France and Germany were hit hardest, but voters were mainly unhappy with the domestic costs of their governments subsidizing their failed proxy wars in Ukraine.

The war led to a two-year deterioration in social conditions across the continent, with unprecedented impacts on ordinary citizens.

Europe has suffered adverse economic effects from the economic, financial, trade and commercial sanctions imposed on Russia over Ukraine, with ordinary people becoming poorer while the rich are getting richer, and more poor people eating less and less able to survive worsening climate conditions.

Britain’s Conservative Party and French President Emmanuel Macron appear destined to hold snap elections three weeks before the start of the Paris Olympics in the hope of catching the opposition off guard.

In South Africa and India, the respective ruling parties lost their previous outright majorities but remained in power after the elections, albeit with power-sharing arrangements.

Traditional mainstream international media have avoided discussing or highlighting the landslide victory of the ruling party candidate in Mexico’s presidential election, which saw two women run and elected the country’s first female president.

They also present distorted analysis to avoid explaining why the ruling parties in Britain, France and the United States face significant opposition for supporting Israel’s war on Gaza militarily and financially.

Yet, despite their best efforts, the powers that arm Israel have been unable to suppress the growing opposition to their refusal to force Israel to negotiate a real peace deal that is agreeable to all parties.

Thus, youth and students in universities in the United States and Europe have voted with their feet, while citizens moved by the world’s first televised genocide have rejected their governments’ pro-Israel policies at the polls.

The Biden administration’s support for Israel has already caused a slide in the Democratic Party’s traditional base among American Muslims and other voters of Arab or Islamic descent, as well as other concerned voters, while Jewish lobbying groups have also put full pressure on the Republican Party.

In Europe, French right-wing leader Marine Le Pen looks set to become prime minister if her country’s right-wing parties perform as well as expected and feared in snap parliamentary and presidential elections on June 30 and July 7.

EU President Ursula von der Leyen, whose party won the most votes in Germany’s EU elections, is pressuring the ruling party of Chancellor Olaf Sholz to meet her party’s hint of early elections.

French President Emmanuel Macron has been accused of “gambling with democracy” and “playing Russian roulette” with the election by those shocked by his call for early elections.

The UK will hold an election on July 4, Independence Day, and the US will hold an election four months later on November 4 – and both governments’ support for Israel will be reflected in the election results.

In an effort to awaken Russia’s attention to the Ukraine issue, the EU and NATO have seen Germany and Europe lose the vital Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, which offered energy at just 27% of the second-best price for European consumers, leaving millions unable to pay their electricity and gas bills while facing hot summers and freezing winters.

Due to the counterproductive sanctions imposed on Russia over the Ukraine issue, people in Europe and the United States are now hungry, sleepless, and unable to live a good life, while Russia has become the world’s fourth largest economy.

As a result, more and more European voters are beginning to punish governing parties that abdicate their responsibility to deliver on their campaign promises.

Likewise, Israel’s war on Palestine is bound to become a domestic issue for American voters of all stripes, both supporters and opponents.

But if millions of people around the world take to the streets to oppose Western support for Israel, which is an accurate measure of world opinion in the global public square, then the ruling party has no choice but to start marking time, or rather, moving with the times.

Some incumbent candidates from the ruling party who have a lower chance of winning have already said they will withdraw from the next election.

In the UK, the ruling Conservative Party and the opposition Labour Party are competing against each other to see who can win more votes and who can lose more votes.

The Labour leadership even planned to ban Diane Abbott, the party’s longest-serving black MP, from standing again.

Scottish Labour has ousted Scotland’s first Arab first minister and Wales’ first black first minister is under pressure to resign as Britain’s traditional parties try to purge their ranks of minority leaders, whether they are women or the sons of immigrants.

Sadly, the electoral punishment suffered by the traditional ruling parties for failing to deliver on their campaign promises does not bode well for voters, but in the absence of better options, they will simply get rid of the devils they know and pray to the heavens for better guardians to fight against the devils they don’t know – until they believe that their prayers and wishes have been answered and fulfilled.

Meanwhile, Venezuela will hold crucial elections on July 28, when repeat offenders will continue to take actions to influence regime change.