Kamala Harris says ‘I will not be silent’ on suffering in Gaza after Netanyahu talks

Netanyahu: "Please stop withholding weapons and support, please seriously guys cut it out"

TIME Magazine: "Is Netanyahu dragging out the conflict for political benefit?"

Biden: "There is every reason for people to draw that conclusion."

Kamala Harris: "I will not be silent."

Hexbear: "Congress gives Netanyahu Standing Ovation, blood on hands of every US lawmaker, US President personally responsible for tens of thousands of deaths directly."

Did you watch the video?

Republicans gave Netanyahu a standing ovation.

Dozens of Democrats abstained, the ones who attended remained seated, and Rashida Tlaib held up a sign that said “war criminal.”
- I insult Hexbear at every opportunity, bunch of dictator cocksuckers they are.
- Based Rashida.
Democrats give lip service after months of ongoing escalating protests while continuing to arm Israel. Leftists in shambles.

It's easy to say things in the run up to election. I'll wait and see what she actually does when/if she is elected

That's funny, I actually think she has to be way more careful on the run-up to the election. After the election she can go ham if she wants . She really can't yank the carpet out from under netanyahu's feet before the election.

Netanyahu is clearly courting Republicans with the assumption that Trump is going to win. That was the gamble that looked a lot more certain from his perspective before Biden dropped out last week.

As long as she falsely claims Israel has the right to defend itself, everything else she says is noise.

Genocide Joe bots and trolls in shambles

The heck is wrong with you?
- The heck are you talking about?
Actual humans glad to finally have a candidate who isn't a genocide supporting ghoul.
- No actual humans are not glad, because this is not support for Palestine or anti genocide or anything like that. This is just talk to appease to voters.
  
  Actual thinking humans can deduce that since Israel had the 100% of support from the democratic party no questions asked, not when bombing children, not when needing funding to attack Hezbollah in the north, this means that the person replacing the president from the same party, while also being the vice president of the current democratic government, will do exactly the same. As has been the case for every major foreign interest of the US.
  
  There could have been some room for wishful thinking if she was someone new but like, she is the current vice president, the levels of gaslighting democrats are reaching is beyond me.

She's going to say whatever she thinks will get her elected.

We can't trust her as far as we can throw her. All this kamala hype is just manufactured by people who spent money.

It's better than standing 100% behind Israel. Either way, I'll believe it when I see it.
- All this kamala hype is just manufactured by people who spent money.
  
  This is the point I was trying to make.
So what do you suggest? The guy who's already said he's for genocide?
- All this kamala hype is just manufactured by people who spent money.
  
  This is the point I was trying to make.

Enough with words. We have had almost 10 months of them. Just another talker I bet.

I feel that, but to be fair she's not in a position to do much more than promise at the moment.

I think it's an encouraging sign that she's not trying to duck the issue, the way she could. That's not a guaruntee she'll take real action, but if she's distancing herself from Biden on this even before she gets the nomination it's a good sign.

I think it's easy to forget just how extreme Biden is on this issue. Harris is your average democrat, but she's still not ideological like Biden is, most aren't. Biden went so far as to go around Obama to make promises to Israel when he was VP, I don't see Harris having that kind of unquestioning desperation to help the right-wing Israeli government.
- Thank you for explaining your point of view so well, much appreciated!
Unlike the other guy who lies with every breath he makes she has not given us a reason not to trust her yet...

So don't even compare its not fair at all.

One is a serial liar, rapist and criminal, and I'm not even exaggerating or being dramatic... just 100% real facts proven in court.

Wake up.
- I'd guess they are fully conscious of what they are doing and will happily push America over a cliff for their own sick satification. Ignore them, they are no better then the christo-fascists.

She [...] denounced Hamas as a brutal terrorist organisation that triggered the war

Harris, you're wrong and you know it. This is only the latest battle in a war that has been going on for decades.

And the word you're not saying is genocide.

Out of curiosity, do you always insist people use the term genocide when addressing the ~~Ukrainian invasion~~ invasion of Ukraine, the sinicization of Tibet, and the Uyghur camps as well? Do you always say the Ukrainian genocide, the Tibetan genocide, and the Uyghur genocide? It’s exactly as correct as the former descriptions.
- I won't insist on each and every time, but just once would be fantastic.
  
  I personally also don't say it literally each and every time, but I will say that those examples as also genocide, unequivocally. That's me on the record, you can quote me on that.
  
  (Also I assume you mean the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and the genocide of the Ukrainian people in the invaded areas, not an invasion committed by the Ukrainians, because I'm not aware of that happening anywhere.)
- Genocide is never okay no matter who commits it. There's definitely different kinds of genocide so it's hard use the word to properly define it's context. That said it's not used when it's clearly adequate because politics.
- Considering that most of you guys began to say Armenian genocide only after it lost any usefulness whatsoever for Armenians to prevent its continuation, it's kinda boring to see such arguments.
- Out of curiosity, do you suppose whataboutism is going to make what Netanyahu does suddenly not be a genocide?
  
  Do you think that because Russia and China are doing it, that makes it OK? We're not selling Russia and China weapons to use in their genocides.
- Are you equating the war in Ukraine fought between 2 actual armies on relatively equal footing where civilian casualties have been much lower in relative terms (eg. ~500 Ukrainian children dead) and 2 cultural genocides to what we have been seeing for the last year in Gaza? How can you genuinely believe that these things are equivalent? There are horrific abuses that have occurred in all these places but not at the (relative) scale of human suffering that Gaza has seen in terms of starvation, death of civilians and children, disease, displacement and destruction of housing stock and civil society. There are estimates of 90-180 thousand people dead at this point.
As a Canadian I feel like people who support our right wing politicians are very generous with the accuracy of what they say and their American counterparts are even more so.

Yet somehow the Progressive side is held to this unusual standard where they're constantly painted as the villain if they're off by the slightest bit.
- Expecting the right wing to do anything good is futile. If they were going to, they wouldn't be in the right wing. The Democrats can be pushed left. There is no point in setting standards you know someone will never meet. Some Democrats have already called it genocide, so there it's achievable.
- Harris is by no means a progressive, but anyone supporting Israeli government at this point is creepy as fuck
Israel helped Hamas gain power intentionally. Defending Hamas is defending Israel, just as defending Israel is defending Hamas.

If only she were the current sitting vice president of the United states of America, I.e. was in a position of power where she and the other members of the executive branch could take action as well as "striking a tough tone".

Actions, as always, speak louder than words.

Oh my god, nothing is enough for you people. She's literally pushing for an immediate ceasefire and withdrawal of the Israeli military and advocating for a 2 state solution. Isn't that precisely what we want?
- Also Israel should pay to rebuild.
- Some of us do recognize Harris has no real power yet.
- No you hit it, nothing will be enough. It’s a childlike view on geopolitics.
- One state is the real solution. That’s going to take time to rebuild trust. Until then, Biden’s ceasefire agreement and Gaza rebuild plan is a great start.
The Vice President's only constitutional power is to break ties in the Senate, which is not a very relevant power.
- Not defending the person you replied to, but the VP still has behind-closed-doors influence on the sitting president. Pretty sure Biden influenced Obama to support gay marriage, when the latter was iffy because much of the public was still homophobic in the '00s to early '10s.
Historically the VP has been one of the weakest political positions when it comes to actual power or ability to effect change. Just depends on how much the cabinet/president listen to you.
- Unless you were Dick Cheney.
The issue of Palestinian independence has been my longest standing position. I became interested in politics during the second inifada 20+ years ago. It's been going on longer than that by a longshot.

This is the best we've seen in terms of statements. Let's let her win before we condemn her for shit she can't act on.

If she gets it and continues to pay lip service only, I'll agree with your cynicism. Gods know I have enough to go around myself.
Tell me the actual power of the VP? The buck stops at the top. The decisions of the executive are the final word. She is one voice among many in the Whitehouse and she doesn't pull the levers. She can't force Biden to do whatever she wants. That's now how it works. She can suggest, she can inform, she can advise, but ultimately, until January, it's Biden making decisions.
a position of power where she and the other members of the executive branch could take action as well as “striking a tough tone”.

Ah, here's where you're mistaken. The Vice President is not a position of power. They can try to influence the president, like any other cabinet member, but that's it. They're effectively ceremonial.