Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is reportedly upset with Vice President Kamala Harris’s remarks after the two met in Washington. After the meeting, Harris said it was time for a ceasefire in Gaza. Netanyahu claims her statement set back any potential agreement with Hamas.
On Thursday, Netanyahu held separate meetings with President Joe Biden and Vice President Harris. After her sit-down with Netanyahu, Harris reaffirmed that she is committed to arming and supporting Israel. However, she also called for a ceasefire and expressed that too many Palestinians had been killed.
According to Israeli officials speaking with Axios, Harris’s remarks irked the Israeli leader. One official said Netanyahu was taken aback by her tone following their discussion. “Harris’ statement after the meeting was much more critical than what she told Netanyahu in the meeting,” they told the outlet.
Describing the meeting to reporters, Harris said “I told him that I will always ensure that Israel is able to defend itself, including from Iran and Iran-backed militias such as Hamas and Hezbollah.” She continued, “From when I was a young girl collecting funds to plant trees for Israel to my time in the United States Senate and now at the White House, I have had an unwavering commitment to the existence of the state of Israel, to its security and to the people of Israel.”
The vice president also called for an end to the war in Gaza. “And as I just told Prime Minister Netanyahu, it is time to get this deal done. Let’s get the deal done. So we can get a ceasefire to end the war. Let’s bring the hostages home,” she added. “And let’s provide much-needed relief to the Palestinian people.”
Israeli officials said behind closed doors, there was little difference between the PM’s discussions with Biden and Harris. They told Axios that the sit-down with Biden “was much more constructive than his meeting with Harris, but stressed the meeting with the vice president wasn’t tense or difficult.”
The Israeli official said Netanyahu believes Harris’s remarks make an agreement with Hamas less likely and is unwilling to link a hostage deal with a permanent ceasefire. However, the vice president also said that any agreement must affirm Israel’s security. Netanyahu has argued that Israel will not be safe without the eradication of Hamas.
Prior to the meeting, a senior US official offered a similar perspective to reporters during a background briefing, saying there was “no daylight between the president and vice president” on their position on Israel.
Biden has previously called for an agreement to end the war in Gaza. In late May, the president claimed that Israel had accepted a proposal that would lead to the release of all hostages and an end to the war in Gaza.
Having stepped down from the 2024 presidential race, Biden has endorsed his VP for the Democratic nomination, which will be decided at the party convention in August.
Kyle Anzalone is the opinion editor of Antiwar.com, news editor of the Libertarian Institute, and co-host of Conflicts of Interest.
Oh no, disagreement, dismay, danger, defeat … don't believe a word of it.
Any show of change by Harris is to give an excuse for those who do not wish to see to voluntarily fool themselves and pull the lever for her.
The only way Hamas will be defeated is by the expulsion of most Palestinians.
There are 2B Muslims in the world, there is no way to defeat Hamas.
Well, he’s saying the war continues until their defeat. I was just saying that’s the end of it. Or maybe it doesn’t end there.
Are you in Tel Aviv? Indoctrinated to hate, just as Miko Peled alleged in his book? Are you saying you are in favor of the current genocide, along with the expulsion of a population that was already driven from homes in 1948? I really, really feel sorry for you. A lost soul.
Why would I be in favour of it? I’m not tied to any of these people.
Netanyahu says in the article that the war will continue until Hamas is defeated. I’m saying that only happens if they’re expelled.
However, I really think Israel is vulnerable now, because it can’t live with the Palestinians after all this. And Israel will lose support in the US and Europe. I want stability there as in Ukraine.
I certainly don’t support killing and harming the children of Amalek. I keep saying it’s the worst thing I’ve ever heard and seen. Both sides lie, but the Israelis keep getting caught committing atrocities. There’s no equivalent on Oct. 7.
“Children of Amalek” So brazenly stated, as if it’s true.
What? He was saying something like that.
From the Bible: “Don’t let anything live. You must kill all the men and women and all of their children and little babies.”
The Bible is a book of faith, not a book of facts. Their bible is a book of command, not a book faith. Know the difference.
Well, yea; but it’s really horrible. How could anyone have faith that that was the first covenant?
You are interpreting by their book, not the book. Thats the problem with U.S. Christianity, always go by their book, not the book.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/netanyahu-openly-calls-for-genocide-citing-the-bible-go-attack-the-amalekites/ar-AA1j282g
What is he saying here? Oh, I’m “brazenly” stating something that happened…
As if Palestinians were not taught to hate. The only winners are hamas sponsors and NETTY.
For the most part, I don't much care who hates who in the middle east.
I oppose the US sending billions to Israel. If that funding were to end, my motivation to actively oppose Israel would ebb.
Despite what you might think, I've liked most Jews that I've known, who have been mostly liberal and educated Northeasterners from reformed or conservative synagogues.
Israel, OTOH, has painted itself into a corner by committing heinous crimes. If anything its dependency on the US has increased.
I think Bibi's criticism of Harris will help her with a US public that resents so much money going to Israel (and Ukraine) while the US drowns in debt.
Palestinians don't need to be taught to hate, they just need to be taught how the Zionists think and because of their thinking treat Palestinians. "God Gave This Land To Us". It's too bad that you have been living on it for two thousand years without permission of us, but we are back from Europe now, so you need to go by any means dead or alive!!! SCRAM!!!
All Palestinians.
Even that wouldn’t work. They’d just operate from exile.
If Palestinians rallied around some other party/force to represent their aspirations, Hamas might fade away. But it won’t be wiped out by force of arms.
It wouldn’t matter were they to “operate” elsewhere. If Israel ceases harming others, even Iran might tolerate Israel. Israel is hated as an apartheid state, but it has ambitions to become a nation state.
There’s a price to war. Americans love war, because we can waste money, don’t risk much. We usually lose, and it never matters. It’s just a party where you drop bombs on bad guys and experience a sensation of power and superiority.
But Israel and its neighbors don’t want to pay if they can avoid it.
I didn’t say they would operate “elsewhere.” I said they would operate “from” elsewhere. There’s a difference.
In point of fact, much of Hamas’s leadership already seems to live in other countries rather than in Gaza.
The IRA often operated “from” places other than Ireland.
The IRA used people living in Ireland. No one living in Israel will attack if the Palestinians are expelled. Arab Israelis won’t do anything.
How do you know Arab Israelis won't do anything. What Israel does could cause them to resort to terrorism and suicide bombings. Israel could revoke their citizenship and exile them or kill them.
Israelis could just remove their citizenship and deport them, as you say. The Irish won partly due to numbers. The Israelis want to win more than did the English. The English could have won via colonising Ireland, which they did somewhat, and deporting the Irish to the New World, which they did somewhat. I’m glad this wasn’t done, but there was a path to victory for the English.
Yes, the IRA used people living in Ireland.
And people living in England.
And people living in the US.
And people living elsewhere.
Arabs. Hamas would need to use Arabs. Israel would do things the English would not.
Do you think Alexander the Great would have any difficulty at all? He wouldn’t allow Israel to be for Israelis only. He’d force Israelis and Palestinians to have children together, among other things. My point is just that there are ways to win. He’d have no issue with expelling them, but he’d also have no issue mixing everyone.
What Israel is doing presently is the dumbest thing. They’re making it so Jews and Arabs can never live together. It’s like the society went crazy.
The reason I mention Alexander, is he’s just an example of someone who did extreme things to win and hold territory. He’s not the only one. My history isn’t good enough to cite others well.
"Hamas would need to use Arabs."
What makes you think that? There are lots of non-Arab Muslims, and in the past, Palestinian groups have cooperated with non-Arab, non-Muslim groups to carry out operations inside Israel.
See, for example, the Japanese Red Army's attack on Lod Airport in 1972.
That’s an excellent argument and one I hadn’t seen before, but what people hate is the apartheid and especially the poor treatment of Palestinians in their open air prison. If that goes away, so too does much opposition to Israel.
Maybe Israel will still be in trouble, but regardless, it needs to kick them out now after the horrors we’ve witnessed. It might be that Israel will still not endure. Anyway, I just want out.
If Israel really wants to survive, marrying Arabs might work.
That's the ONLY was towards permanent peace in the area that I can see. Christians, Muslims and Jews lived in the region with minimal friction for five centuries, it's a future that is possible, but not if people are kept separate and taught from birth to hate each other.
I grew up in a small all-white town in northern Michigan in the '60s-'70s. A lot of people in the area hated Blacks, Latinos, Asians, etc., mostly because people hate what they fear.
My dad on the other hand had grown up on a farm where they had cherry pickers from all over in the summer. He had worked with Blacks, Latinos, and once with Asians during the harvest, he didn't find them frightening since he had learned that they were just people, the same as everyone else. He had trouble convincing the people in the factory that he worked with, though.
Well, sometimes proximity leads to conflict. It’s a complicated topic. Marriage leads to unity though. If different groups intermarry, they get along better. It’s young males who tend to misbehave.
The issue with Israel is the Palestinians are so badly mistreated.
If there’s ever a conflict over resources, you’ll see group divisions arise. Israel would seem to want a Jewish majority.
I’m not for or against anything but exiting the region. I want the US out entirely. Maybe the US should pay reparations via UBI.
Permanent peace might take place if Sunni Muslims or another forcibly convert the region and reestablish a caliphate. However, I’d prefer there were groups. Israel wants to dominate as regional power. I have no desire to empower Israel in such a way.
Part of me wants Israel to become Palestine just to end the Evangelical worship of Israel. However, Jews might suffer under this. It’s not my issue. It’s up to them to figure what they want to do. I shouldn’t be responsible for some far off state in a foreign land full of foreigners with foreign ways and dress. Who am I to decide their fate? I obviously don’t understand the region that well.
My position is I shouldn’t be in a position to have a position.
"Hamas would need to use Arabs."
What makes you think that? There are lots of non-Arab Muslims, and in the past, Palestinian groups have cooperated with non-Arab, non-Muslim groups to carry out operations inside Israel.
See, for example, the Japanese Red Army's attack on Lod Airport in 1972.
Hi Knapp, when you get a chance, please release my comment from moderation. Thanks.
Why is it so hard to understand the hearts and minds thing?
… or of most Israelis.
Michigan and the Youth Vote 🙂
Oh, YEAH…. We would not want the genocide to END… Being a GENOCIDE PARIAH STATE IS NOT A GOOD FUTURE!!
KILLING TENS OR HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF INNOCENT WOMEN & CHILDREN IS NOT GOOD 4 ANYBODY, ESPECIALLY THE GENOCIDERS…!!WTF!
What do you call it when really big things move 3 inches..? An earthquake.
Interesting that he met with Biden and Harris separately, that seems unusual. Harris has been traveling without him recently as well, before Slow Joe's announcement. It's a long time ago but I seem to remember Bush the Not Stupid doing the same thing towards the end of Reagan's second term, meeting with heads of state separately from the President and making foreign trips on his own. Makes me wonder how Biden really is doing.
WHO GIVES A FUHK HOW GENOCIDE JOE IS DOING!!!! HE IS TURNING AMERICA INTO A DESPISED GENOCIDE ENABLER SENDING 2000 Lb, BOMBS FOR BeBe TO DROP ON INNOCENT KIDS & THEIR MOTHERS!!! He belongs in JAIL OR WORSE……!!!!!!
Chill bro, can hear your heart pounding from the ATL, or you won't make it to inauguration day.
Which Biden? The real one or the double? Have to give it to Drinkin' Bros, they appear right about the cleft chin.
This sounds interesting. What's the claim?
Such discord between friends?!
Way to go Kamala!
When she was asked as a young girl why she was collecting money to plant trees in Israel Kamala replied, "Fweeedom!!"
Not for the PALESTINIANS…!!!!! MORE LIKE APARTHEID, SLAVERY AND ZIO-EXTERMINATION FOR THEM!!!!!!!!!!'
Symbolism over substance as Rush Limbaugh used to say.
More good news that Harris says too many dead Palestinians & they need some reliefe. I hope & believe that she exits Netanyahu's genocide express. It is bad for Israel, bad for America to be supporting & bad for a peaceful world.
Just posturing. The killing will continue. Next news item please.
For sometime likely, but let's not forget the world's highest court last week put an end to law by facts-on-ground.
But that is not likely to happen, it would take commonsense leadership and that is nowhere to be found in Washington.
It is so bad, especially after the Amalek speech. It is so bad.
People see it increasingly as colonialism and white supremacy…
1st Rule of American Politics: Lie always & more when campaigning. Not to puncture your Kamala bubble but one could hardly find a bigger political hack than Harris and the voters know it, remember so bad was the voter response to her 2020 campaign she ended it before facing a single primary vote.
Meaning the DNC+ will stop at nothing to put her in office, no doubt the 'Democracy Fortifiers' are already forming.
Of course your axiom rings true. Lies and more damned lies. And scripts. The people around Kamala are smart enough to know opposing Israel is a death knell on her chances. So the script could be simple:
“Bibi old friend, you know we’ll give you whatever you ask for but Kamala has a few problems with the squad and certain states we need desperately to win. So how about wink, wink, you let her appear to criticize mildly until the election? Don’t worry she will be on board when it counts. Deal?”
Harris says "too many Palestinians killed", yet she will continue to "arm and support Israel"? What BS! Harris has a split tongue, talking out of both sides of her mouth, like all the Reps/Dems. Harris thinks Black People, young people, her Teacher's Union, her Abortion Tribe, etc., are all STUPID. All Americans should tear up their Dem/Rep cards, avoid voting for any Dem/Rep, find better choices. Americans can not continue down this road of WARS, we should always be on the side of Peace and saving human life. Anyone who is supporting the Israeli Government, can NOT, should NOT be trusted.
Her husband is a Zionist. I don’t claim to know about her, how she’d be relative to Trump.
If she had shown any accomplishment, competence,
or leadership you would know.
The Great African American Journalist Tony Brown put it this way “ the democrat party is the left wing of the republican party and the republican party is the right wing of the democrat party”.
Well said. Not to forget, she is one of genocide Joes DEI selections. Now after Trump and Biden why not? Who cares about competence anyway, Zionists will still be in charge in DC and the State Department. The Israeli lobby will pick the members of any new administration regardless who wins.
Of course, the roof could come crashing down first or it is only a nightmare.
Calling him Joe Genocide doesn’t affect him, but Joey Genocide would disturb him greatly why? Because the obvious love he maintains for his father who called him Joey.
Maybe he never really grew up?
If that be the case all the more reason to moniker him “ Joey Genocide “.
Harris said"too many Palestinians killed", I didn’t know any Palestinians had been killed! In my humble view the Palestinians, Journalists and Aid Workers have been “MURDERED”. When they say killed they are saying there is moral justification, reasonable justification and legal justification when in fact there is none. Recent report in TOI that a rocket strike has hit a soccer field The Zionist State of Israel spoke person said “In the past hour, Hezbollah has been lying and denying responsibility for the incident. Our intelligence is clear, Hezbollah is responsible for the murder of innocent children," Hagari says.” Note “murder” not simply killed.
When nobody in authority is consistent, why pretend anyone has to Obey?
Pretty shoddy coup execution when they can't keep their lies consistent.
Probably intentional as the people still picking the left side or right side don’t seem to be catching on to the Uniparty antics.
Jill Stein 2024! 🙂
Who? 😛
No single person, running for President or Dogcatcher, could possibly have the time to provide Netanyahu the criticism he so deadly deserves.
and desperately needs. It is high time for someone to put Netanyahu in his place, but that requires a statesman/woman with character and leadership competence.
BIBI declares that only Israelis have rights, and it is anti-Semitic to call his lies lies. How dare you don't jump when I tell you to jump.
Of all the megalomaniac heads of state and elected politicians he towers over all of them, even big mouth Trump. His arrogance knows no limit and the useful congressional idiots in congress hop up and down applauding him, the spineless little worms.
Kudos to the one Rep. a real lady with civil courage to let Bibi know, not in the same words, "BIBI go to hell".
Kudos, standing ovations to her.
All the more impactful as she sat silently in her Palestinian keffiyeh with her fan, turning it front or back as appropriate to the latest war criminal's lie. She's my Hero!
There is enough discontent for a party other than the two regulars to win, combine your efforts and go in heavy on prosperity and security, America for Americans.
We have Prosperity, it goes to the same place(s,) take a look at the Gini Index.
The security we don't have is at the border and we create our insecurity intervening in foreign counties. Why is Iran always in our Axis of Evil trifecta? Having nothing to do with Israel & everything to do with Britain’s Iranian oil interests when in 1953 the CIA/UK deposed the democratically-elected PM Mosaddegh, we replaced him with the ruthless, but west-friendly, Shah Reza Pahlavi who we supported while he oppressed and brutalized his people for the next 25 years. Until the 1979 Iran Revolution when college students stormed the US embassy and took 53 Americans hostage. They were, of course, "terrorists" not Iranians who wanted America out of their country.
1M are homeless on our city streets; 20% of our public school graduates are functionally illiterate, 16% of America’s adult population is functionally illiterate and an additional 130 million are unable to read beyond the 6th grade level; 70K+ Americans die of drug overdoes annually and 1M declare bankruptcy from medical bills.
I’m heavy on housing, education and healthcare. That’s America for Americans.
Netanyahu is not even from Israel, and has no ties to the land of Palestine. He is just another fake poseur who uses power for his own benefit only. Israel is on a downward spiral trajectory.
The bought off lapdogs in the House and Senate cannot save what is coming. The world at large will have the last word on Israel..
Netanyahy was born in Israel, making him a native Palestinian.
You are correct about his birth place..my bad on that..1949 and then moved to PA in 1963 where he attended MIT
There is no excuse for the killing of the innocent women & Children nor forgiveness. BeBe has taken US ON HIS BIG ADVENTURE KILLING KID & MOMS.!!!!!! IT WILL BE A WHILE BEFORE WE SUCH OPEN & BRAZEN GENOCIDE, HOPRFULLY WE WILL GET TO SEE THE PERPETRATORS COME TO JUSTICE OR JUSTICE COME 2 THEM!
Kabuki.
Now we can know for sure that Trump will come out ahead in November. Looks like Ms. Harris will be declared an "antisemite" for daring to not agree completely with the "Boss" of US ME policy.
No one gives a fu*k…!
That Netanyahu is so worried. One phone call from the lobby will straighten her out.
Election tactic on Harris’s part…!
Forget about morality for a moment – does anyone else find it so pathetic that such a large empire is always at the whim of such a small and petulant vassal? The kings of old had harsh punishments for such offenses – no one would could ever challenge his ultimate authority. But I guess that’s what you get with a democracy
Here is your hat PM, what’s your hurrry?!
Any updated on the current death toll?…?
He will eventually realize that his support from the USA only goes so far. And if he does not, perhaps his own people will keep reminding him, theirs only goes so far as well.
FJB and Camela
The organized crime Netanyahu Israeli government is bombing schools and hospitals in Gaza, assassinating young boys and girls, according to a well-thought and obvious genocide plan.
People who do not see that are deaf and blind and are immoral scumbags.
The Western governments, and that includes the US government, who approve of these atrocities are loosing all moral credibility in the civilized world.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-strike-central-gaza-girls-school-kills-palestinians
Kayfab
The socialist Axios wants to help Kangala Harris with Democrat voters, without her actually having to do anything against Israel. They also lied on her behalf saying the evil Right is wrong about her being named the "border czar." When they themselves wrote about her being the "border czar" in the past, and leftist TV media said the same thing, while they now lie and claim she was never tasked with the border.
Harris had to choose:
1. To continue to support Israel unequivocally, like the genocide byedone, or
2. Be concern amore bout her upcoming nomination and election…!
She chose the latter for now…!
The Crime Minister however is Upset (in real sense worried) that Trump may not be elected…!
Let's see. Netanyahu gives a speech full of lies, to which congressmen/women give rapt applause. He visits Harris, does not like what he hears. Visits Biden. Likes what he hears. Visits Trump, really likes what he hears. The "message" from Bibi is let me continue the killing of women and children in Gaza, and, give me full backing to invade Lebanon. And then, and then, there is an attack in the Golan Heights (where Jews are illegally), according to Bibi, the work of Hezbollah (who said it was not their work). And then, and then, Bibi says Lebanon will be destroyed. In my humble opinion, it is not far fetched for the Zionist government of Israel to create a false flag, even killing their own (as was done on 7Oct via the Hannibal Directive), to justify bombing the crap out of Lebanon. I could be wrong. But…..
It’s not “Jews” who are in the Golan Heights illegally. It’s “Israelis” who are in the Golan Heights illegally. There’s a difference.
What the heck are we all doing up so dang early TK?!!!
Lol! ;-/
I slept in this morning — on weekdays I’m up at 4:30am Eastern.
Israel is a master in false flag operations…! But, apparently the Golan Heights incident was result of one of their own anti-air missile going stray…!
The censorship on "antiwar" became similar to one in authoritarian states.
Netanyoyo is acting like a PUTZ!
Well said VP Harris! YOU GOT MY VOTE FOR PRESIDENT!
Attention, American Tax Payers:
I believe it is time for a refund! Got your attention?!
What is the total US bill for monies given to Israel? And just what the hell do WE get in return?!
If we do not get some damn peace, ISRAHELL can kiss our collective asses!!!
Israel needs to stop sucking on our collective tits, immediately, cause it is time for ALL of us to object!!!
THE BUCK STOPS HERE!!!
TAX REVOLT!!! Is Proactive!
It looks as if Kamala might have a conscience. If she does, baby Bibi and his genocidal apartheid regime will be history.
Zionists should read the Torah:
Woe to those who plan iniquity,
and work out evil on their couches;
In the morning light they accomplish it
when it lies within their power.
They covet fields, and seize them;
houses, and they take them;
They cheat an owner of his house,
a man of his inheritance.
Therefore, thus says the LORD:
Behold, I am planning against this race an evil
from which you shall not withdraw your necks;
Nor shall you walk with head high,
for it will be a time of evil.
Looks are deceiving.
“From when I was a young girl collecting funds to plant trees for Israel to my time in the United States Senate and now at the White House, I have had an unwavering commitment to the existence of the state of Israel, to its security and to the people of Israel.”