OPINION

Sinwar's Daughter: Kamala Harris

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Kamala Harris removed her mask and showed the world what she thinks of Israel and Jews. Any Jew who votes for her is self-hating.

I had a professor at Harvard who told an interesting story. He had just published a book, and an article about him and his writings was forthcoming. The relevant publication sent a photographer to get some author snaps. The photographer took many pictures, and when they were finished, she told him they were done. A second later, he heard the camera shoot again. The surprised professor asked what that was. “I always take a picture of my subjects after they think we have finished. This picture is the real representation of the person of interest.”

Kamala Harris is a highly scripted and anemic politician. Whereas Donald Trump likes to wing it when he talks, Harris relies on carefully scripted answers, even if the answers are irrelevant to the question. So, while in Wisconsin, she was pressed by a heckler on “billions” in US support for the genocide that this fellow claims that Israel is committing against the Palestinians. After the troublemaker was removed, Harris finally let the mask slip. From Townhall:

"Harris further addressed his points once he was gone. "Listen, what he’s talking about, it’s real. It’s real. That’s not the subject that I came to discuss today, but it’s real, and I respect his voice," she offered. She then tried to awkwardly get back on track, repeating her narrative about an "opportunity economy.""

Kamala Harris supports the lie that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Her thinking, if such an activity can occur between her ears, is that if over 40,000 Palestinians have died, then it must be some type of genocide or ethnic cleansing. Her childish conclusion would be like someone walking into an active surgery theater and seeing blood everywhere and concluding that a group of doctors and nurses is conducting a murder. Hamas itself recently admitted that 80% of those killed have been its members and their family members. All military experts who have weighed in on the subject—including the former US chief of staff—have said that the low ratio of civilians to combatants is unprecedented in urban warfare, including during wars in which the US was a participant. Israel has undertaken numerous measures, including dropping leaflets telling people where to go, using “knock, knock” on buildings to get people out, sending SMS messages to civilians in combat areas, and using drones and advanced weaponry to minimize civilian casualties. I personally go for the flatten-it-all approach, but one cannot in any way, shape, or form claim that Israel is systematically killing Palestinians with a genocidal intent. Kamala Sinwar is as wrong on this point as are the black-robed clowns barking “genocide!” at the International Criminal Court.

So why would Kamala Harris, no doubt with mounds of intelligence well beyond what we mere citizens have access to, make such an unforced comment that the fellow’s claims were “real”? I think that one can go back to answer that one by looking at her support for the BLM riots in the summer of 2020. Not only did Harris promote a site that raised money to get bail for criminal agitators, but she made some breathtaking comments. She said, “They're not gonna stop before election day in November, and they're not gonna stop after election day. And they should not.” Kamala Harris lives in a world of caricatures and tropes"

*The US is a racist country.

*Israel murders Palestinians.

*Donald Trump is a fascist.

*Trump Supporters are racists.

Not one of these points is true. The US is the most tolerant country in the world. The lack of broad support for Harris is not due to sexism or racism but rather to her being a lousy candidate whose policies over the past four years have hurt many Americans as well as the standing of the country itself. Israel does not murder Palestinians, and I don’t know how many dozens of IDF soldiers are dead because Israel made the protection of civilians an equal or higher priority than the protection of its own forces. Donald Trump’s first term record shows no fascist tendencies or actions; he did not weaponize the Department of Justice against his enemies as Joe Biden has done. Trump supporters come in all types, but the vast majority are proud Americans and could not give a whit about another person’s color. They want to succeed personally, and they want their country to succeed as well.

Where a true genocide is taking place is through the actions of Hamas and Hezbollah. When Hamas operatives and their flunkies entered Israel last year, they came to murder Jews. There is unquestionable documentation of their murder of children, their rape and murder of unarmed Jewish women, and their shooting people who were begging for their lives. Can Kamala put down the chardonnay long enough to find a video of a Palestinian begging not to be killed only to be murdered in cold blood by IDF soldiers? I have not seen it. I would even wager that if Sinwar had raised his arms in surrender to that drone that filmed him prior to the delivery of a second tank shell, Israel would have been legally compelled to take him prisoner and not kill him. Like Hamas, Hezbollah fires missiles and drones primarily at civilian targets. 

Israel is not a perfect country, but it is fighting an enemy that cowardly hides in tunnels and among civilians. The work it has done in Gaza will become a legend in military lore, because nobody thought it possible to fight and win in such an environment. Remember the world—including Harris—telling Israel not to go into Rafah? Israel went in, cut off arms flows from Egypt, flattened the area closest to the border and conquered the city with low casualties on the Palestinian side. And it was in Rafah where Sinwar was hiding.

Kamala Harris owes Israel an apology for claiming that the protester talking genocide had any truth to his argument. Any Jew voting for Harris is one who is not only voting against Israel but against himself. Harris also believes the BLM myths against Jews and supports the Hamas protests that have at times endangered Jewish lives. The time has come to get Joe Biden and Kamala Harris out of the White House. They are a clear and present danger to the US and world peace.