Last December, Vice President Kamala Harris flew to a climate conference in Dubai and quickly huddled with the leaders of three Arab nations to discuss Israel’s war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
The conflict, by then, was still weeks old, ignited by a terrorist attack in which militants killed roughly 1,200 people in Israel and took hundreds hostage. Ms. Harris saw a diplomatic opening for herself: to be the face of the future, and not of the current war. She told the assembled leaders, “The phase of fighting will end and we will begin implementing our plans for the day after.”
Planning for the phase after the war might have seemed rhetorically out of step with President Biden, who was managing growing domestic opposition to the conflict with his embrace of Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister. But the visit publicly established Ms. Harris as a more compassionate voice for the administration, and she has publicly and privately been more empathetic than Mr. Biden about the plight of Palestinians in Gaza.
Still, according to U.S. officials and campaign advisers, the empathy she has expressed as vice president should not be confused with willingness to break from American foreign policy toward Israel as a presidential candidate.
I’m sure she won’t.
I’m still voting for her over the wannabe dictator who will add at least two more genocides to the world.
Same here. I’m doing the same, in any case.
That being said, I’m still hopeful that, even if they don’t call it a break from Biden, once she takes office she’ll have an updated policy towards the conflict that, while not officially dropping support for Israel, allows her to find an actual resolution to the situation, sort of a way for her to leave her unique mark on the situation without officially breaking w/ Biden.