Undebatable: What Harris and Trump Could Not Say About Israel and Gaza

Undebatable: What Harris and Trump Could Not Say About Israel and Gaza

by NORMAN SOLOMON

The banner headline across the top of the New York Times home page —
“Harris Puts Trump on Defensive in Fierce Debate” — was accurate
enough. But despite the good news for people understandably eager for
Trump to be defeated, the Harris debate performance was a moral and
political tragedy.

In Gaza “now an estimated 40,000 Palestinians are dead,” an ABC News
moderator said. “Nearly 100 hostages remain. . . . President Biden has
not been able to break through the stalemate. How would you do it?”

Vice President Harris replied with her standard wording: “Israel has a
right to defend itself. We would. And how it does so matters. Because
it is also true far too many innocent Palestinians have been killed.
Children, mothers. What we know is that this war must end. It must
when, end immediately, and the way it will end is we need a ceasefire
deal and we need the hostages out.”

“End immediately”? Anyone who isn’t in fantasyland knows that the only
way to soon end the slaughter of Palestinian civilians would be for
the U.S. government — the overwhelmingly biggest supplier of Israel’s
armaments — to stop sending weapons to Israel.

Read it all here:
<https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/09/11/undebatable-what-harris-and-trump-could-not-say-about-israel-and-gaza/>

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https://t.co/6LeZJVLdWw


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