Wednesday, July 24, 2024
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Disclaimer: the views expressed here are solely those of
the author, weekly Judean Rose columnist Varda Meyers Epstein.
When Bibi Netanyahu and his wife Sara got off the plane in
DC, there were no dignitaries on hand to greet them. No president,
and no vice president. The president was ill with COVID and far away, while
Vice President Kamala Harris was, well, missing. Period.
Bibi gets mediocre greeting https://t.co/7wVRdQJkfl pic.twitter.com/TodtG4BD3O
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) July 22, 2024
There can be no doubt that with her absence, Harris was signaling her contempt and disrespect for the Jewish State. We know this because the vice president let it further be known that she would not be attending Netanyahu’s address to Congress—which is actually her job. "Vice President Kamala Harris, who is now the presumptive Democratic nominee, will not preside in her constitutional role as president of the Senate during Netanyahu’s address," wrote CNN.
Harris begged off with prior engagements. But the marked absence of the presumptive Democrat presidential nominee at the airport and the historic address to Congress wasn’t really about a speaking gig at a sorority in Indianapolis, and even Israel’s war on Hamas was only an excuse.The Vice President is supposed to preside over joint sessions of Congress. @KamalaHarris refusal to do so when the Prime Minister of Israel makes his first public address in the United States since Hamas invaded Israel on October 7, tells you everything you need to know about…
— David M Friedman (@DavidM_Friedman) July 23, 2024
The reason Kamala Harris has been MIA on all things
Netanyahu is because she doesn’t like Israel. She would say she doesn’t hate Israel; she
hates only Netanyahu. But “Netanyahu” is to “Israel” as “Zionist” is to “Jew.”
One is only a code word for the other, a code that renders hatred kosher, via an
adjustment in terminology.
The code makes it possible to read between the lines of what
Kamala Harris has said about Israel over the years, and also how she has
responded to Israel’s detractors, offering sympathy to Jew-haters for their “truth.”
WATCH: Kamala Harris nods as student accuses Israel of "ethnic genocide": “your truth cannot be suppressed" pic.twitter.com/FcqCyT7Uo8
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) September 28, 2021
Over time, Kamala Harris has become ever bolder in expressing her anti-Israel sentiments. Or maybe she was always this way. She told a man accusing Israel and the US of genocide that she appreciated his leadership.
Kamala Harris sits in silence as an audience member peddles Hamas propaganda and baselessly accuses Israel and the U.S. of "genocide."
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) October 17, 2023
Then she praises him: "I appreciate you raising the subject and I appreciate your leadership."
FULL EXCHANGE: pic.twitter.com/6gKMjWqspA
In March she expressed her sympathy for antisemitic protesters.
Harris said she understood how they felt (emphasis added):
“They are showing exactly what the human emotion should
be, as a response to Gaza. There are things some of the protesters are
saying that I absolutely reject, so I don’t mean to wholesale endorse their
points. But we have to navigate it. I understand the emotion behind it.”
In that same March interview, Harris issued a stark warning
to the Jewish State. “We have been clear in multiple conversations and in every
way that any major military operation in Rafah would be a huge mistake,” said Harris
on ABC’s “This Week.”
“I have studied the maps. There’s nowhere for those folks to
go,” said Harris, referring to the residents of Rafah.
This, of course, is a lie. The residents of Rafah do have a
place to go, in fact multiple places to go. They could go to the humanitarian
zones created for them by Israel, but Hamas won’t let them leave. They could go
to Egypt, but Egypt
won’t let them in. No one should believe that Kamala Harris does not know these
things. She has been briefed on and sat in briefings about these things.
She knows about Hamas blocking the way of fleeing civilians,
sometimes by beating and killing them. She also knows that Egypt has refused to
take in the desperate Gazans. In spite of this knowledge, during the course of
the interview, Harris went further even than Biden’s “Don’t.”
“We’re gonna take it one step at a time,” said Kamala
Harris, alluding to what the Jewish State should expect should it fail to heed
Biden’s warning. Shipments of weapons and ammunition would be “delayed.”
This, in fact, was what happened. A loophole was found and
exploited by the Biden administration in order to withhold arms from the Jewish
State. Senator Tom Cotton described how they did it in a June
24 letter to Joe Biden. It was now three months since Kamala had made her
threat, and the weapons, so crucial to the Jewish State, had not been released:
“Your administration is engaged in bureaucratic
sleight-of-hand to withhold this crucial aid to Israel during a shooting war.
As you are aware, the Arms Export Control Act requires the administration to
notify Congress before sending weapons to a foreign country. Your
administration has manipulated this requirement by withholding this formal
notification to Congress of approved weapons sales, including F-15s, tactical
vehicles, 120-mm mortars, 120-mm tank rounds, joint direct attack munitions,
and small diameter bombs. Your administration can then claim that the weapons
are ‘in process’ while never delivering them.”
The confluence of world events right now is intriguing. It
puts one in mind of the Book of Esther. Biden steps down from his bid for
reelection and Harris assumes the role, just as Netanyahu arrives to plead his
case. Can we predict how the story arc will play out? What will happen to Israel
in the months to come, as a heavily-funded Kamala Harris veers ever more
publicly further to the left?
Here is what will happen: Israel will refuse to stand down
against the vicious Hamas terrorists, no matter what Kamala Harris does or
doesn’t do. But should she continue to amass power, her distaste for Israel,
may end up hurting the very people she means to help. Because the longer this
drags on, the more Gazans will die.
The Biden administration has not advocated for US citizens held hostage in Gaza, and has fed money to Iran and its proxy, Hamas, all the while demonizing Israel. But when it comes to sheer public hatred of the Jewish State, Kamala somehow always takes it that one step further than Biden, letting the world know she’s not going to give the Jews of Israel the means to defend themselves.
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