Battleground Michigan: A Tale of Two Communities Divided by War
Abed Hammoud, 58, fears that his vote for Green Party candidate Jill Stein could lead to a second Trump term, but he said, “I can’t in good conscience… vote for Harris. What’s the difference between her and Biden?” (Nic Antaya for The Free Press)
West Bloomfield and Dearborn are separated by less than 25 miles. But Jewish and Arab residents’ views on who should win the presidential race feel worlds apart.
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DEARBORN, MICHIGAN—Abed Hammoud grew up in south Lebanon fearing the sound of Israeli war planes. The echoes of their engines were so commonplace that he told me he learned to differentiate between different kinds of fighter jets—and where they dropped their bombs—based on the noise they made as they whizzed overhead.
As we sat on a pair of sofas in the…
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