Kamala Harris calls for 'immediate ceasefire' in Gaza

Good for her, in breaking with this Administration.

I'm sick of Joe "Moishe" Biden, pandering to Israel and giving those welfare queens our American tax dollars, to kill innocent civilians.

Go, Kamala!

Nobody cares what she says

She could very well be the President one day, R2.

So you should really watch your fucking mouth.

I'm sure she's not "breaking" with anyone. This is Biden letting Netanyahu know, enough.

Oh fuck off bitch Mi voted for Biden

It doesn’t change the fact how unpopular she is even with Democrats. I don’t care if she flaps her flap in the wind. Nobody listens to the sound it makes.

Bring on Gavin Newsom!

R1 she isn’t breaking with this administration. You dumbass she IS this administration

She always sounds like she's been drinking in her Sunday dress.

No American in good conscience can support what Israel is doing to Gaza.

I'm glad she's speaking up for the majority of us.

Well there's not much left to destroy, is there?

[quote] Well there's not much left to destroy, is there?

No, but they can still try to illegally occupy Gaza.

That's where the US must step in and stop them from doing that.

It would be no different than Sadaam Hussein invading Kuwait.

We would have to send American troops in to stop the Israelis.

"We would have to send American troops in to stop the Israelis."

Hamas supporter at R10.

Genocide supporter at R11.

[Quote Democrats. I don’t care if she flaps her flap in the wind. Nobody listens to the sound it makes.

Lmao! 😝

R1 Are you kidding ? You think she's breaking with this administration and did that speech on her own ?

As someone pointed out, she IS this administration. This was well-orchestrated and the speech was well-crafted on their part for her to present and look Presidential. This was well-planned for her to make such an important speech such as this today, it wasn't just by chance.

I have to say - she did an excellent job. If they wanted her to look Presidential, then 'mission accomplished'.

I'm not sure what some of you are implying here, with "Kamala is trying to look Presidential."

Are you saying she's going to replace Joe?

Are you saying they're prepping her for 2028?

Are you saying she's actually in charge??

I would say:

#1 is very possible, should he decide to step down - she's the back-up candidate.

#2 is definite.

#3 is probably less likely.

If Joe were to step down before this year's election, Kamala is definitely out.

Joe will not step down before the election, but it’s possible if not highly probable that he will step down before finishing his second term. So yes, she could easily be President soon and by running as an incumbent in 2028 she will be hard to defeat just like Joe in 2024.

I'll bet that if Kamala Harris were President, she would have already demanded Israel stop the slaughter in Gaza, or she would withhold aid from the US.

She’s making this speech in Ala damn bama! As if they need any more reading to vote Trump!

R7 That is that greatest saying I have heard in a long time.

[quote] Rival of Netanyahu visits US, will meet with Vice President Harris

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rebuked a top Cabinet minister arriving in Washington on Sunday for talks with U.S. officials, according to an Israeli official, signaling widening cracks within the country’s leadership nearly five months into its war with Hamas.

The trip by Benny Gantz, a centrist political rival who joined Netanyahu’s wartime Cabinet following Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack, comes as friction between the U.S. and Netanyahu is rising over how to alleviate the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza and what the postwar plan for the enclave should look like.

An official from Netanyahu’s far-right Likud party said Gantz’s trip was planned without authorization from the Israeli leader. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Netanyahu had a “tough talk” with Gantz and told him the country has “just one prime minister.”

Gantz is scheduled to meet on Monday with U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and national security adviser Jake Sullivan and on Tuesday with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, according to his National Unity Party. A second Israeli official speaking on condition of anonymity said Gantz's visit is intended to strengthen ties with the U.S., bolster support for Israel’s war and push for the release of Israeli hostages.

In Egypt, talks were underway to broker a cease-fire before the Muslim holy month of Ramadan begins next week.

Israel did not send a delegation because it is waiting for answers from Hamas on two questions, according to a third Israeli government official who spoke on condition of anonymity. Israeli media reported that the government is waiting to learn which hostages are alive and how many Palestinian prisoners Hamas seeks in exchange for each.

All three Israeli officials spoke anonymously because they weren’t authorized to discuss the disputes with the media.

The U.S. began airdrops of aid into Gaza on Saturday, after dozens of Palestinians rushing to grab food from an Israel-organized convoy were killed last week. The airdrops circumvented an aid delivery system hobbled by Israeli restrictions, logistical issues and fighting in Gaza. Aid officials say airdrops are far less effective than deliveries by truck.

U.S. priorities in the region have increasingly been hampered by Netanyahu’s Cabinet, which is dominated by ultranationalists. Gantz’s more moderate party at times acts as a counterweight.

Netanyahu's popularity has dropped since the war broke out, according to most opinion polls. Many Israelis hold him responsible for failing to stop the Oct. 7 cross-border raid by Hamas, which killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and took roughly 250 people as hostages into Gaza, including women, children and older adults, according to Israeli authorities.

More than 30,000 Palestinians have been killed since the war began, around two-thirds of them women and children, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, which does not distinguish between civilians and fighters. Around 80% of the population of 2.3 million have fled their homes, and U.N. agencies say hundreds of thousands are on the brink of famine.

Israelis critical of Netanyahu say his decision-making has been tainted by political considerations, a charge he denies. The criticism is particularly focused on plans for postwar Gaza. Netanyahu wants Israel to maintain open-ended security control over Gaza, with Palestinians running civilian affairs.

The U.S. wants to see progress on the creation of a Palestinian state, envisioning a revamped Palestinian leadership running Gaza with an eye toward eventual statehood.

That vision is opposed by Netanyahu and the hard-liners in his government. Another top Cabinet official from Gantz's party has questioned the handling of the war and the strategy for freeing the hostages.

Netanyahu's government, Israel's most conservative and religious ever, has also been rattled by a court-ordered deadline for a new bill to broaden military enlistment of ultra-Orthodox Jews. Many of them are exempted from military service so they can pursue religious studies. Hundreds of Israeli soldiers have been killed since Oct. 7, and the military is looking to fill its ranks.

Gantz has remained vague about his view of Palestinian statehood. Polls show he would earn enough support to become prime minister if a vote were held today.

A visit to the U.S., if met with progress on the hostage front, could further boost Gantz’s support.

Israel and Hamas are negotiating over a possible new cease-fire and hostage release deal. Vice President Harris said on Sunday it is now up to Hamas to agree to it. “Given the immense scale of suffering in Gaza, there must be an immediate cease-fire for at least the next six weeks, which is what is currently on the table,” Harris said.

Israelis, deeply traumatized by Hamas’ attack, have broadly backed the war effort as an act of self-defense, even as global opposition to the fighting has increased.

But a growing number are expressing their dismay with Netanyahu. Some 10,000 people protested late Saturday to call for early elections, according to Israeli media. Such protests have grown in recent weeks, but remain much smaller than last year's demonstrations against the government's judicial overhaul plan.

If the political rifts grow and Gantz quits the government, the floodgates will open to broader protests by a public that was already unhappy with the government when Hamas struck, said Reuven Hazan, a professor of political science at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

At least 12 people were killed, including five women and two children, in an Israeli strike on Sunday that hit a house in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, according to an Associated Press journalist at Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah. And two Israeli strikes southwest of Deir al-Balah killed at least five people and destroyed an aid truck, according to witnesses and staff at the hospital.

Amid concerns about the wider regional conflict, White House senior adviser Amos Hochstein was going to Lebanon on Monday to meet officials, according to an administration official who was not authorized to comment. White House officials want Lebanese and Israeli officials to prevent tensions along their border from worsening.

She's a horrible leader god help us if she becomes president by default. Her personality type reminds me of every ineffective female manager or director that I've had in my career. Totally unauthentic , high turn over in her staff. More focus on optics than being actionable.

She did a good job in these remarks.

She can go fuck herself!!!!!!!!

[quote] Kamala Harris calls for 'immediate ceasefire' in Gaza

To give such a speech she should at least have worn a hijab

Who will be the first national democrat to demand we bomb Israel

Hamas hasn't agreed to any ceasefire.

Exactly R4. Harris wouldn't have said this without permission from Biden et al. She was directed to make this announcement.

R29 - according to PBS NewsHour today Israel have refused to attend talks in Qatar to discuss a ceasefire and aid to trapped civilians so nobody can agree to anything.

Grampa made a fool out of himself again last week after announcing a ceasefire by today. Of course he also thought Egypt was at Americas southern border a few weeks ago.

[quote] She’s making this speech in Ala damn bama! As if they need any more reading to vote Trump!

She was there for a Civil Rights commemoration PEACE march in Selma, Alabama.

Dumbass.

So instead of keeping the focus on race progress in America and those who helped make it happen, she hijacks the occasion on behalf of Hamas.

How smooth.

I don't care if her flap flaps in the wind. I won't listen to the sound it makes.

Kamala doing this is just Joe and Kamala playing good cop/bad cop and signaling that everybody in this administration is supporting an 'immediate ceasefire' but won't have Joe say as much to give the Israeli government a head start and time to adjust to more stringent rules.

Ceasefire is what Hamas wants. Thanks from Hamas, Kamala.

If Biden wins another term, she could very well become President during that term.

So Israel had better play ball with Kamala.

Because she will be calling the shots.

[quote] Ceasefire is what Hamas wants.

Phrases like this are right out of the Bush administration with the Iraq war.

[quote] Ceasefire is what Hamas wants.

Ceasefire is what THE WORLD wants.

Fixed it for you.

R32

1. She never experienced discrimination in her entire life.

2. She is not black and attempts to ride those fake racial coattails to her advantage.

Over the years, Israel has several times agreed to peace treaties. The Palestinians have never agreed to anything.

Kamala can shut her braying pie hole.

Funny how Kamala can talk politics in a church. When Republicans do it, it’s called violating separation of church and state.

The Nazi's screaming about genocide realize that every war has someone accusing the other of genocide, right? Including the USA being accused of it in Vietnam.

We killed 1 million Vietnamese during the war. There are 5 million people in Palestine. Let me know when we hit over a million dead and maybe then we can call it "genocide."

R44, they’ve destroyed the infrastructure and the population has been reduced to eating animal feed. It’s a promising start.

Better late than pregnant.

Netanyahu is sadistic.

r45, it's called war. And when your own neighbors won't let you into their countries to let you escape from the horrors of war, what does that tell you? The Palestinians act like they have all of the Arab nations behind their cause. They clearly don't. Saudi Arabia is one of the wealthiest nations. Even they aren't helping them.

It sucks that people are starving but perhaps Hamas should have thought about the consequences of starting this war. You call Netanyahu sadistic but don't condemn Hamas shoving nails and burning hot knives into women's vaginas sadistic, r47? Or cutting off the breasts of the hostages and tossing them around while laughing? Tells me all I need to know.

R43 When did she talk politics in church ? The video I'm seeing played on the news shows have her outside making her speech.

[quote] When did she talk politics in church

I don't know about Kamala's pro-Hamas speech but it's totally routine for democrats to campaign in black churches, sometimes more condescendingly than other times.

R50 So she didn't talk politics in a church. Got it.

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She couldn't send back a steak with any real authority. Lite weight token VP pick who knows less about U.S. foreign policy than Donald Fucking Trump. Time to Dump the Frump before it’s too late.

Kimmel replaced her last evening with Nick Offerman.

I agree, R53. Kamala adds nothing to the ticket. Replace her with a competent black female politician.

[quote] Replace her with a competent black female politician.

Good luck.

Kamala needs to resign for the sake of the Democratic party.

ASAP, R57.

You just know there will be a barrage of ads by Trump proclaiming “A vote for Biden is a vote for President Harris”.

[quote] Kamala Harris calls for 'immediate ceasefire' in Gaza

If there’s one thing I love, it’s an impotent gesture.