Israeli hardliners lash out at Harris's call for cease-fire
Source: VOA News
July 26, 2024 11:37 AM
By VOA News
Far right Israeli lawmakers Friday sharply criticized U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris's call for a cease-fire and concern for human suffering in Gaza following her White House meeting Thursday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
In comments to reporters Thursday, Harris said she expressed unwavering commitment to Israel and will always ensure that Israel is able to defend itself.
Harris, now the leading Democratic candidate for president after U.S. President Joe Biden bowed out of the race early this week, added, "Israel has a right to defend itself, and how it does so matters."
She went on to say she expressed to Netanyahu her serious concerns about the scale of human suffering in Gaza, including the deaths of "too many innocent civilians." We cannot allow ourselves to become numb to the suffering, and I will not be silent," she said. Harris urged negotiators to get a cease-fire deal done to end the war.
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maxsolomon
(34,434 posts)Who cares if they "lash out"?
brush
(56,164 posts)and there will be war crime tribunals.
maxsolomon
(34,434 posts)Will the ICC try any Hamas leaders, or will it just be Israelis tried in absentia?
brush
(56,164 posts)Netanyahu/Likud and the Hamas leadership.
Agreed? Aren't you tired of this war? The entire ME should be tired of 75 years of this crap, and working their hardest to get to a ceasefire and a two-state solution.
maxsolomon
(34,434 posts)I was tired of it when I 1st learned about it during the 1972 Olympics. I was 8.
I just don't believe there will ever be any accountability for War Crimes committed - by either side.
brush
(56,164 posts)traveling for fear of being arrested and hauled off to the Hague.
If that's the way it has to be, so be it. They'll be prisoners in their compounds like Bin Laden was until the piper cam for him.
Hieronymus Phact
(466 posts)We're past that, the grievances on both sides are too long and convoluted. What's needed is Peace. It's more important than blame, or justice. I think the model should be Truth and Reconciliation commissions or something like that going forward. but that starts with flat out unconditional Peace.
maxsolomon
(34,434 posts)Peace feels ever more remote.
brush
(56,164 posts)to get to that. So far that has not worked as having the war continue keeps certain parties out of jail, and others holed up in their comfortable digs in other countries.
angrychair
(9,377 posts)She has not said before. What she said was measured and straight forward. At the end of the day this is likely posturing in the press and I think tht deal will go through but I think Bibi is finally done running Israel.
oasis
(51,232 posts)doesnt register with that crowd.
A more useful saying Fuck around and find out.
This lady dont play.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,651 posts)"Tug on my tail and find out" was a good saying.
Richard D
(9,124 posts). . . is that by their own words, Hamas does not want peace, nor do they want a two-state solution. They want a one-state solution, absent of all Jews.
They have promised to repeat Oct 7-type events until all Jews are dead.
To have peace, both sides must want peace. At this point in time, a cease-fire would just give Hamas the chance to regroup, re-arm, and get ready for the next massacre.
Or perhaps I'm wrong. If so, please point me to Hamas leadership, which is asking for a peaceful solution.
liberalgunwilltravel
(459 posts)The error in your reasoning is that you cant kill an idea. What Hamas did was horrendous with no justification. But the longer this type of fighting continues, literally the more terrorists you create. I certainly dont have a solution to what appears to be an intractable problem, but wholesale slaughter of innocents on either side certainly isnt it.
Richard D
(9,124 posts). . . Oct 7 was an unprovoked attack. Hamas promised to do it again and again. Israel has every right to root out the perpetrators and do their best to recover the hostages. There was a de facto 2-state solution prior to Oct 7 as Gaza had it's own government and no Israelis were in the strip. It was not enough for Gaza, and they tortured, burned, decapitated, murdered, raped, and kidnapped for the most part innocent civilians.
What would people have Israel do? Whatever they did would be smeared by the international community because, well, Jew-hate.
Of maybe they should just roll over and take it and enjoy it? Seems to be what the world wants.
Or perhaps they should have killed exactly as many Palestinians as Palestinians killed on Oct 7 and then stopped? People seem to believe that.
Jeeze, I'm losing faith in human intelligence.
And yes, of course. Peace is important. Israel is basically a peaceful multi-cultural and multi-ethnic society. It works there. But the Gazan's do not want peace. If they did, they would have it.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,586 posts)It doesn't represent all Palestinians.
liberalgunwilltravel
(459 posts)That has an appropriate ring to it here.
democrattotheend
(12,002 posts)And I have no problem with what she said.
moniss
(4,902 posts)in Israel and trying to generate usable talking points for the GQP/MAGA crowd here in the US.
9 months into this conflict the Israelis have destroyed most of the hospitals, universities, infrastructure, farms, large machinery and housing there is no end to what hate can justify. At some point you need to figure you've punished them enough and end this carnage. Time for a truce.