In the presidential candidates’ debate on September 10, Trump and Harris clashed over Israel. But the terms were not over WHETHER, but HOW to enable Israel to pursue the genocide in Gaza and increasingly throughout Palestine.
Trump set the terms by declaring, “She [Harris] hates Israel. If she’s president, I believe that Israel will not exist within two years from now. And I’ve been pretty good at predictions.” In the last debate, Trump had repeated a similar charge against his then-rival Biden, and followed up by saying that he told Israel to “finish the job” and to effectively keep the press out when they did so.
Harris declared, “That’s absolutely not true. I have my entire career and life supported Israel and the Israeli people. He knows that. He’s trying to again divide and distract from the reality, which is, it is very well known that Donald Trump is weak and wrong on national security and foreign policy.”
Harris’s Double-Talk Cannot Hide the Blood on Her Fangs
Yes, Harris lamely tacked on claims to be working “around the clock” for a ceasefire to provide those Harris voters who profess to be troubled by, or even opposed to, the war with an excuse to ignore a reality of mass murder and truly horrible suffering, made in the USA and backed to the hilt by Harris’s Democratic Party.
In fact, the Biden administration has actually been “working around the clock” to shore up the U.S. position as the dominating power of the Middle East. The main end of that has been providing Israel with virtually unlimited weaponry to murder, maim, torture and destroy. At the same time, they have also advanced certain ceasefire proposals, at least in large part to deceive the vast majority of people around the world who hate what Israel is doing (for more on this, see here and here). And despite the fact Netan-nazi is the main one who has blocked and sabotaged every ceasefire agreement when it nears completion, the Biden-Harris administration has consistently lied that the obstacle to a ceasefire is Hamas, while as a matter of policy “insulating [Israel’s Prime Minister] Netanyahu from [public] criticism.”
Of course—and again, as a way to keep those Democratic voters who want to convince themselves that they can vote for a genocider and still be a decent person—after going on and on about how rabidly she supports Israel’s right to “defend itself” (carry out genocide), Harris once again added that “how it does so matters.”
Really? Here’s how Israel was “defending itself” on September 10, the very same day as Harris was bragging about supporting Israel her entire career (and calling “weak” the bloodthirsty Trump, who in the last debate called for Israel to “finish the job” and keep out the press when they did so):
Israel dropped at least two 2,000-pound bombs on defenseless Palestinian people in Gaza seeking shelter in the so-called “safe zone” in Al-Mawasi. Biden and Harris, who supposedly stopped enabling Israel to use 2,000-pound bombs against civilians, didn’t say a word in response! (See the sidebar, “The sky was filled with screams: The Challenge of the Al-Mawasi Slaughter.”)
Israel claimed that this massacre, carried out with these weapons of mass destruction, was a series of “precise strikes” aimed at a few Hamas operatives. That claim is so ridiculous, so outrageous, so intentionally unbelievable as to underline the reality that the real target of Israel’s slaughter in Gaza is not Hamas, but the ability of the Palestinian people to survive as a people.…Read more by
