Kamala Harris is Hamas’ useful idiot The vice-president is a major liability for the Biden campaign – and is harming relations with Israel Nile Gardiner March 2024
Posted By Ruth King on July 22nd, 2024
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As the Biden Presidency continues to sink at a rapid pace, with nearly two thirds of Americans now believing the country is on the wrong track, Kamala Harris is unwittingly doing her best to speed its demise.
Her latest television interview, with ABC News, can only be described as a train wreck that cements her reputation as a calamitous vice president. The interview followed her recent gaffe-ridden visit to Puerto Rico, where Harris cluelessly applauded anti-American protesters singing a song in Spanish accusing her administration of war crimes.
In yet another damaging blow to relations between the Biden Presidency and the Israeli government led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Harris warned Israel against a military offensive in Rafah, while ludicrously boasting “I have studied the maps.” Harris, whose expertise on the Middle East is close to zero, saw fit to berate America’s closest ally in the region on its own counter-terrorism policy. The arrogance was breathtaking, and the ignorance of the complexities on the ground simply stunning.
Harris has been one of the least impressive vice presidents in US history. Her vacuous policy statements and speeches frequently display a staggering lack of knowledge. Her handling of the southern border crisis as the White House’s “border czar” has been an absolute disaster, with over nine million illegal migrant crossings since she and Joe Biden took office in January 2021.
Many Americans I have spoken to genuinely fear her one day taking over the presidency. With good reason. The only thing more embarrassing for the Biden presidency than Joe Biden himself are the media utterances made by his deputy, Kamala Harris.
Like Biden, Harris’s hubris in Washington is legendary. Not only did she knife Israel in the back in her reckless interview with ABC, but she also gallingly portrayed herself as an authority on the Israel/Palestinian issue, lecturing the Israelis about what to do after simply looking at a map. Harris, however, is no Henry Kissinger or Madeline Albright, and her rude finger-wagging will be met with the hostility it deserves in Israel.
Harris’s words to ABC reflect the sheer weakness and amateurism of the Biden administration’s foreign and national security policy. There is no overall strategy in the White House for advancing peace and security in the Middle East, no willingness to confront the growing threat to the region posed by Iran, and a flat-out refusal to support the destruction of Islamist terrorist groups such as Hamas.
They also embody the callous disregard the Biden White House holds for America’s most important allies, from Jerusalem to London. The open contempt and even hostility the Biden team project towards Israel and its leaders is both shocking and disgusting. It is also completely tone deaf and highly insensitive, coming just months after Hamas terrorists carried out the biggest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust in its October 7 attack last year.
As the Biden administration demonstrated this week in refusing to veto a shameful Gaza ceasefire resolution at the United Nations Security Council, it is more than prepared to allow Hamas terrorists to get away with savagery and barbarism on a huge scale. By attempting to pressure Israel against launching military operations in Rafah, the Biden team are simply protecting Hamas and its masters in Tehran.
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are both willing to kowtow to the enemies of the free world for the sake of placating America’s radical Left and shoring up domestic political support for the pro-Palestinian/pro-Hamas cause in critically important swing states such as Michigan. They also genuinely do not seem to care about Israel’s own future and security.
It is a cynical and foolhardy approach that fundamentally undercuts vital US national interests, threatens the security of a key US ally, and if followed through would hand a strategic victory to those who seek the destruction of Israel itself.
Nile Gardiner is Director of the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom at The Heritage Foundation in Washington, DC
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As the Biden Presidency continues to sink at a rapid pace, with nearly two thirds of Americans now believing the country is on the wrong track, Kamala Harris is unwittingly doing her best to speed its demise.
Her latest television interview, with ABC News, can only be described as a train wreck that cements her reputation as a calamitous vice president. The interview followed her recent gaffe-ridden visit to Puerto Rico, where Harris cluelessly applauded anti-American protesters singing a song in Spanish accusing her administration of war crimes.
In yet another damaging blow to relations between the Biden Presidency and the Israeli government led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Harris warned Israel against a military offensive in Rafah, while ludicrously boasting “I have studied the maps.” Harris, whose expertise on the Middle East is close to zero, saw fit to berate America’s closest ally in the region on its own counter-terrorism policy. The arrogance was breathtaking, and the ignorance of the complexities on the ground simply stunning.
Harris has been one of the least impressive vice presidents in US history. Her vacuous policy statements and speeches frequently display a staggering lack of knowledge. Her handling of the southern border crisis as the White House’s “border czar” has been an absolute disaster, with over nine million illegal migrant crossings since she and Joe Biden took office in January 2021.
Many Americans I have spoken to genuinely fear her one day taking over the presidency. With good reason. The only thing more embarrassing for the Biden presidency than Joe Biden himself are the media utterances made by his deputy, Kamala Harris.
Like Biden, Harris’s hubris in Washington is legendary. Not only did she knife Israel in the back in her reckless interview with ABC, but she also gallingly portrayed herself as an authority on the Israel/Palestinian issue, lecturing the Israelis about what to do after simply looking at a map. Harris, however, is no Henry Kissinger or Madeline Albright, and her rude finger-wagging will be met with the hostility it deserves in Israel.
Harris’s words to ABC reflect the sheer weakness and amateurism of the Biden administration’s foreign and national security policy. There is no overall strategy in the White House for advancing peace and security in the Middle East, no willingness to confront the growing threat to the region posed by Iran, and a flat-out refusal to support the destruction of Islamist terrorist groups such as Hamas.
They also embody the callous disregard the Biden White House holds for America’s most important allies, from Jerusalem to London. The open contempt and even hostility the Biden team project towards Israel and its leaders is both shocking and disgusting. It is also completely tone deaf and highly insensitive, coming just months after Hamas terrorists carried out the biggest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust in its October 7 attack last year.
As the Biden administration demonstrated this week in refusing to veto a shameful Gaza ceasefire resolution at the United Nations Security Council, it is more than prepared to allow Hamas terrorists to get away with savagery and barbarism on a huge scale. By attempting to pressure Israel against launching military operations in Rafah, the Biden team are simply protecting Hamas and its masters in Tehran.
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are both willing to kowtow to the enemies of the free world for the sake of placating America’s radical Left and shoring up domestic political support for the pro-Palestinian/pro-Hamas cause in critically important swing states such as Michigan. They also genuinely do not seem to care about Israel’s own future and security.
It is a cynical and foolhardy approach that fundamentally undercuts vital US national interests, threatens the security of a key US ally, and if followed through would hand a strategic victory to those who seek the destruction of Israel itself.
Nile Gardiner is Director of the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom at The Heritage Foundation in Washington, DC