With US President Joe Biden’s resolution to withdraw from the November 5 presidential election, the baton has now fallen to his vp, Kamala Harris. Since July, Harris has been beneath scrutiny and there was a lot hypothesis about her positions on quite a few points, one in all them being the continuing battle between Israel and Palestine.
The battle has now been happening for eleven months and exhibits no indicators of abating. A number of makes an attempt to succeed in a peaceable ceasefire settlement have failed, whereas the demise toll continues to rise: roughly 42,000 individuals have died to date (greater than 40,000 in Palestine and virtually 1,500 in Israel), and the battle is worsening.
When he ran for reelection, Biden vehemently declared that he supported Israel’s proper to defend itself in opposition to Hamas, the terrorist group whose assault on October 8 final yr killed greater than 200 Israelis. In accordance with TIME journal, Biden is essentially the most pro-Israel president ever to serve within the White Home.
As for Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris, issues seem like a little bit totally different.
HARRIS’S POSITION
Harris, nonetheless, has stored her stance on the battle consistent with Biden’s. Whereas she supported Israel’s proper to defend itself, she was additionally the primary senior official to name for a right away ceasefire in Gaza, based on TIME journal.
He brazenly rebuked the Israeli authorities for the “humanitarian disaster” in Gaza, noting that “too many harmless Palestinians have been killed.”
Even after a latest assembly with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Harris got here out to focus on the deaths of “too many harmless civilians” and added that she “won’t be silent concerning the struggling in Palestine.”
Now, with the demise of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, an American activist within the West Financial institution, Harris is inclined to press Israel to succeed in a ceasefire settlement.
In the course of the presidential debate together with her opponent and former President Donald Trump, Harris maintained the identical stance. She pointed to Israel’s proper to battle Hamas, however lamented the lack of life in Palestine.
“Allow us to perceive how we obtained right here. On October 7, Hamas, a terrorist group, murdered 1,200 Israelis, a lot of them younger individuals who had been merely attending a live performance the place girls had been horribly raped. So Israel has each proper to defend itself; we might achieve this,” he stated. “And the best way it does so is necessary, as a result of it’s also true that too many harmless Palestinians have died, youngsters, moms. What we all know is that this conflict should finish, it should finish instantly, and the best way it’s going to finish is that we’d like a ceasefire settlement and we’d like the hostages to come back out. So we’ll proceed to work tirelessly on that,” he stated.
