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Former Vice President Kamala Harris criticized former President Joe Biden’s “inadequate” response to “the suffering of innocent Gazan civilians” in her new book, accusing the former president of not extending “the same empathy” to Palestinians as he did Ukrainians.
“I had pleaded with Joe, when he spoke publicly on this issue, to extend the same empathy he showed to the suffering of Ukrainians to the suffering of innocent Gazan civilians,” wrote Harris, according to Axios, which obtained an advance copy of Harris’ book 107 Days. “But he couldn’t do it: While he could passionately state, ‘I am a Zionist,’ his remarks about innocent Palestinians came off as inadequate and forced.”
While Harris continued that she believed “Israel was right to respond to the atrocities of October 7,” she noted that “the ferocity of Netanyahu’s response, the number of innocent Palestinian women and children killed, and his failure to prioritize the lives of the hostages had weakened Israel’s moral position internationally and created angry dissent within Israel itself.”
In her book, Harris also acknowledged the “bitter” reaction that the Democratic National Convention received after not giving “a speaking slot to a Palestinian spokesperson.”
However, the former vice president went on to criticize the pro-Palestine demonstrators who disrupted her campaign rallies.
“The threat to withhold their vote got to me. It felt reckless,” she complained. “The issue was not binary, but the outcome of this election certainly was.”
Harris concluded, “Why weren’t they protesting at Trump rallies? I wondered.”
While Harris criticized some of Netanyahu and the Israel Defense Force’s (IDF) conduct, she publicly praised others, including the killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.
The Democratic Party’s response to Israel’s war against Gaza ultimately proved fatal, with a shock poll just one month before the election showing that more Arab-American voters intended to vote for President Donald Trump and the Republican Party than Harris and the Democrats.
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