Harris fails first interview on ending US enabled Israeli genocide in Gaza

 

Harris fails first interview on ending US enabled Israeli genocide in Gaza

 

During her interview with CNN’s Dana Bash last night, Kamala Harris doubled, tripled, quadrupled down on President Biden’s enabling of Israeli genocide in Gaza.

 

“Let me be very clear. I’m unequivocal and — and unwavering in my commitment to Israel’s defense and its ability to defend itself. And that’s not gonna change. But let’s take a step back. October 7, 1,200 people are massacred, many young people who are simply attending a musical festival. Women were horribly raped. As I said then, I say today, Israel had a right — has a right to defend itself. We would. And how it does so matters. Far too many innocent Palestinians have been killed. And we have got to get a deal done that is about getting the hostages out. I’ve met with the families of the American hostages. Let’s get the hostages out. Let’s get the ceasefire done.”

In Kamala's worldview, its all about helping the people committing genocide, not the victims of genocide.

But once the October 7th Hamas attack was repelled, the Biden administration, instead of working to end the violence, embarked on total support to Israeli exploiting the attack to utterly destroy Gaza as a livable 139 square miles for 2,300,000 Palestinians. In doing so Biden failed to follow US law which obligated him to cut off all military aid to Israel.

 

Here’s what Kamala’s “unequivocal and unwavering …commitment” since October 7 to provide for Israel what it needs to complete the annihilation of Palestinians in Gaza:

 

50,000 tons of war weapons arriving on 197 ships and 500 cargo planes since the genocide began last October. These weapons have 42 million tons, over three quarters of Gaza’s buildings, into rubble. Over 10,000 Palestinians lie squashed under that rubble. Over 40,000 Palestinians dead, mostly woman and kids. The death toll slated to rise above 185,000 from disease and starvation according UK medical journal Lancet.

 

Palestinians' safe haven in Gaza is confined to 11% of its territory. Even that postage stamp size habitat gets bombed. The Biden administration has given Israel $17 billion in new military aid since October 7 on top of the $3.8 billion in free money it gives Israel every year to maintain their Apartheid control of Gaza and the West Bank.

 

As the No 2 person in the Biden administration and now the titular Democratic Party leader as presidential nominee, Harris has her fingerprints all over the US enabled genocide there. Harris remains cool with a policy, forbidden by US law, to give military aid to a nation using it to commit war crimes and prevent humanitarian aid from reaching its victims.

 

She could have spoken out of the need to cut off genocide weapons to Israel. She could have resigned the Vice Presidency in protest. There’s precedent for that. In 1915 Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan resigned from the Wilson Administration after Wilson demanded he send Germany a war threatening letter over the Lusitania sinking. A hundred nine years later over 2 dozen Biden staffers have followed Bryan’ principled example…but not Kamala.

 

Kudos to Bryan for resigning to prevent US entry into WWI. Raspberries to Kamala for hopping aboard the Biden/Netanyahu Genocide Train destroying Gaza.

 

Over half of Biden’s 81 million of Biden’s 2020 voters want an end to US weaponizing the Israeli genocide in Gaza. Millions of them will vote third party or skip the presidential vote in protest. That may spell defeat for Harris November 5, a cruel legacy of her support of Israeli/US genocide in Gaza.

 

A crueler legacy for Kamala Harris is that she’ll forever be tarnished with the crime of enabling genocide when she was in a position of power to end it.