Harris tells Netanyahu ‘it is time’ to end the war in Gaza and bring the hostages home
Harris tells Netanyahu ‘it is time’ to end the war in Gaza and bring the hostages home
Vice President Kamala Harris says she urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reach a cease-fire deal soon with Hamas so that dozens of hostages held in Gaza since the Oct. 7 attack can return home.
“What has happened in Gaza over the past nine months is devastating. The images of dead children and desperate, hungry people fleeing for safety, sometimes displaced for the second, third or fourth time,” Harris said. “We cannot look away in the face of these tragedies. We cannot allow ourselves to become numb to the suffering. And I will not be silent.”
As much as this is as of yet simple lip service, I hope this indicates an intent to deviate from Biden's deep-throated support of Netanyahu and (now ICJ-validated) Apartheid Israel.
18It's a major rhetorical shift for sure and Biden would certainly never have done this. I want to see a lot more progress so hopefully they get the attention they need from this feeler to take some next steps.
10This is my hope as well. As a mostly independent voter, she's gonna have to do more to convince the Greens, PSLs, and Liberals that she won't renege on things she's signaled have her support and what will be challenged.
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I'm excited to give her a chance to put her money where her mouth is, considering she's offered about the most substantial criticism of Israel's genocide that we've seen from this administration.
14Isn't this literally two days after she parroted the Zionist mantra "israel has a right to defend itself"?
3She is still saying that and probably will continue to. Kamala is not someone to ever support uncritically. She's a politician who is thinking strategically and has been known to publicly suspend her ostensible personal morals in the interests of the state (such as when she legally defended the death penalty while stating she personally opposed it at the same time). This is not a person to put faith in, this is a politician who just indicated she is willing to give on this position in return for political support. It's not enough yet but this is significant progress in my opinion.
9Every nation has the right to defend itself. There are big disagreements between nations about what form that should take as well as what response is considered reasonable.
6When "we have a right to defend ourselves" is the excuse given for genocide it's completely unreasonable
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There's no way she hasn't already promised to keep sending Israel free weapons on our dime. Israel is one issue where both parties' positions are 100% the same.
3The US need Israel's Iron Dome short range defensive technology, to complement mid-long range US defenses.
Meanwhile, everyone needs Ukraine's cheap drone warfare expertise, particularly in the sea drone area.
You may think it's "on our dime" or whatever, but it's really a quid-pro-quo in both cases. Uninvolved countries, will have to actually pay for it.
5You may think it's "on our dime" or whatever
I don't know why you put this in quotes when it's literally on our dime, and not only that, we're watching the impoverishment and neglect of our own people on a historically vulgar scale in service to this war machine and genocide.
But, we're a warmongering nation. People will always make excuses.
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