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Elder of Ziyon discusses Kamala Harris’ statements about Israel during her debate with Donald Trump: “The mistakes in ABC’s question about Israel to Kamala Harris, and more in her answer,” Elder of Ziyon, September 12, 2024:
[Harris:] But the one thing I will assure you always, I will always give Israel the ability to defend itself, in particular as it relates to Iran and any threat that Iran and its proxies pose to Israel.
[Elder of Ziyon:] The US policy has been to help Israel defend itself, but it is not keen on Israel winning any wars. A nation that is behind fences and always worried about where the nect [sic] attack can come from is not a secure country, no matter how good its defense is.
If Harris was serious about supporting Israel, she would say she supports an Israeli victory – not another detente with terror groups that led to October 7 to begin with.
It’s not enough to give Israel weapons to help defend itself. It has to be able to go on the offensive, to destroy threats before they are fully realized. That means, above all, to supply the IDF with bunker-buster bombs so that it might destroy Iran’s underground nuclear facilities at Fordow. Israel cannot only be in a defensive crouch, prepared to retaliate but not to take the offensive. Israelis from now on will follow the Talmudic injunction: “If someone is planning to kill you, rise up and kill him first.”
[Harris:] But we must have a two-state solution where we can rebuild Gaza, where the Palestinians have security, self-determination and the dignity they so rightly deserve.
“Two-state solution”? Good god, where has Harris been? Does she not realize that the Palestinians have repeatedly said that any “state” they may acquire after Israel has been squeezed back with in the 1949 armistice lines, with a nine-mile-wide waist from Qalqilya to the sea, lines described. by Abba Eban as “the lines of Auschwitz,” will only be used as a base from which to launch further assaults on a much smaller and more vulnerable Israel, until the Jewish state disappears, to be replaced “from the river to the sea” by a twenty-third Arab state?
Why does Kamala Harris think that the Palestinians have given up their long-held dream of destroying Israel? Has anyone among the Palestinians suggested that they are prepared for that? No, I thought not. Harris’s phrase about how the Palestinians must “have security, self-determination and the dignity they so rightly deserve” makes one gag. That “they so rightly deserve”? They’ve been conducting war and terrorism against the Jewish state for 76 years. They were delighted with the October 7 attack by Hamas. Why do they “so rightly deserve” anything? Would we have said in 1945 that “the Germans, now that they are no longer a threat, need to have the security, self-determination, and the dignity they so rightly deserve”?
Here is what Kamala Harris should have said at the debate:
On October 7, 6,000 Hamas operatives smashed into Israel, accompanied by several hundred Gazan civilians, where they proceeded to torture, rape, mutilate, and murder 1,200 Israelis and kidnap another 250. Israel was thus forced to fight a war that it did not expect and did not want. It has been fighting not just in Gaza, but against Hezbollah in Lebanon, against the Houthis in Yemen. In fact, the Israelis are now fighting what has been called a “seven-front war,” in Gaza against Hamas, in the West Bank against Hamas and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, in Lebanon, against Hezbollah, in Yemen against the Houthis, in Syria against Assad’s army, and Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps bases, in Iraq against the Shia militia known as Kata’ib Hezbollah, and above them all, their string-pulling puppet-master Iran.
We know, and appreciate, the colossal efforts the IDF has made to minimize civilian casualties, by warning Gazans to leave areas or buildings about to be targeted. We know about the nine million leaflets dropped, the fifteen million messages sent, the sixteen million robocalls made by the IDF, to warn Gazans to move away from danger. We know, too, how Hamas uses Gazans as human shields, and steals aid meant for the people of Gaza.
We will unstintingly provide Israel with all the weapons it needs both to defend itself and, when the IDF deems it necessary, to take the fight to the enemy before it has a chance to harm the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
There. That’s much better. Feel free, Kamala, to use it.
Snuffy Carter says
Kommie-la is on the side of all the enemies of America, whether it’s the Palestinians or the illegal invaders from south of our border. That’s one reason why she refuses to do interviews with reporters.
Leo says
TRUMP 2024 NO MORE OBONGO in US government!!!
Steve Chavez says
Protests here in Albuquerque were organized by ANSWER and The Party for Socialism and Liberation. Photos taken of their signs were against Biden and Harris… SURPRISE! Their brainwashed UNM college students set up an encampment on campus and one night they took over the Student Union but the State Police removed them at 2am making SIXTEEN ARRESTS. Their attorney, Ahmad Assed, the President of the Islamic Center NM, organized a protests ten years ago IN SUPPORT OF HAMAS… OPENLY! He’s quiet now, but he’s still a very hardcore activist using his sister, Samia Assed, our Linda Sousour. Samia is on MSM national shows, many Democracy Now. The arrestees HAD ALL CHARGES DROPPED, even with $40,000 in damages, no police report by the Union director.
I met a middle-aged woman at the camp and she was Jewish Voices for Peace. “Hamas didn’t do enough.” I pretend I’m one of them, can speak their language, to get quotes like this.
(During a visit be Tomi Lahren, the MOB shut down the speech after twenty minutes with them damaging the walls, trying to break down the doors, pulled the fire alarm, and Tomi escorted out the back while we were held hostage for an hour till the State Police came to escort us out of the kitchen. I called 911 three times in a panic since if they got in, even pushing UNM PD around, there would be casualties. My meeting with the Union director about numerous holes in the walls, “We took care of it internally!” THEY’RE IN SUPPORT OF THESE GROUPS EXACTLY LIKE THE UNM PRESIDENT AND OTHERS!)
NOW THESE COMMUNIST GROUPS ARE ORGANIZING “UNCOMMITTED!” Promote that. Support that. That’s a huge chunk of votes that they always get. (Let’s recall 2016 Bernie supporters who filled arenas. Then Hillary and the DNC conspired against him. His supporters had a protest vote AGAINST HILLARY, for Trump. I encouraged that. “Bern got Burned!”
Allan Goldstein says
Jewish Voices for Peace is NOT a Jewish outfit.
…and New Mexico isn’t NOT a state. 🙂
…and UNM is not aneducational institution. 😃
Kasandra says
Harris’ statement is simply emblematic of unserious Democrat security policy. Israel can shoot down incoming missiles but can’t go to in to destroy their launchers, manufacturing and storage facilities, or attack their source. In the Red Sea, the U.S. Navy can’t do the same. Instead, Democrats, including Harris, believe that both Israel and the U.S. must accept continuous attacks and hope to shoot down incoming missiles, ignoring that no defensive system is perfect and the cost to shoot down missiles is currently multiple times greater than the cost of the incoming weapon. Also, and even more importantly, it tells the aggressor that it will suffer no critical harm when it launches attacks other than the interception of many of its missiles, which can easily be replaced, and destroys any deterrent to its murderous actions. It is a loser policy advocated by losers and is dangerous.
Onzeur Trante says
Harris knows nothing about everything. It’s why she should never get elected. That was easy.
Roark says
The Left in Israel is and has been working to undermine Israel for decades.
This may be the greatest act of treason in Israel’s history:
Israel must clean house. The traitors have infiltrated, as in the United States, every institution and bureaucracy. Purge them all.
The enemies within are more dangerous than the enemies without. Israel has turned a blind eye to this treachery for far too long.
These diabolical traitors are aligned with the enemies of the Jewish people and Israel.🇮🇱
steven says
Lefty Jews
Bad for America
Bad for Israel
Bad for The World
I am Jewish, btw.
Allan Goldstein says
°°° megadittos …
Walter Sieruk says
Concerning that terrible idea of Kamala Harris of what some call “the two state solution.” This subject was explained in a rather clear way in the newspaper entitled The Epoch Times April 3-9, 2024, A-14. Which informs its reader that ”Before October 7th 2023 there was a de facto three-state solution , given that Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza were all separate states ruled by their own governments, two of which were illegitimate without scheduled elections.
It was not Israel, but the people of Gaza and the West Bank who institutionalized the “river to the sea” agenda of destroying its neighbor.
Israel would have been content to live next to an autonomous Arab Gaza and West Bank that did not seek to destroy Israel in their own ‘one –state solution.’ “
Walter Sieruk says
Kamala Harris and her of favoring that terrible idea of what some call “the two state solution.” This subject was explained in a rather clear way in the newspaper entitled The Epoch Times April 3-9, 2024, A-14. Which informs its reader that ”Before October 7th 2023 there was a de facto three-state solution , given that Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza were all separate states ruled by their own governments, two of which were illegitimate without scheduled elections.
It was not Israel, but the people of Gaza and the West Bank who institutionalized the “river to the sea” agenda of destroying its neighbor.
Israel would have been content to live next to an autonomous Arab Gaza and West Bank that did not seek to destroy Israel in their own ‘one –state solution.’ “
Walter Sieruk says
Kamala Harris with evil idea and scheme of a “two-state solution” regarding Israel with would result in disaster is a reflection of Proverbs 15:26 in the Bible.
Which informs its reader that even “The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord.”
[K.J.V.]
jcr says
Kammy is a foreign policy and a military dope. How people like her become America’s #2 is a blight on American voters.
I worked in an organization like this. Half the “bosses” (they were not leaders) were either “peter=principled” to their promotion, or in several instances earned it under desk. I am happy I was not required to date one of assistant chiefs to get where I got.
I could provide names and examples. But decorum prohibits it. I am pleased I am retired.