Posted on 07/26/2024 4:44:38 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Vice President Kamala Harris may have made it more difficult to close a hostage deal, a startled senior Israeli official said after hearing the remarks she issued to the press late Thursday afternoon.
“We hope that it won’t make it harder to achieve a hostage deal because it gives the appearance of day light between Israel and the United States,” the official said.
Harris surprised Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and those close to him by issuing her statement.
At issue for Netanyahu and his team was Harris’s statement about how Israel would completely withdraw from Gaza at the end of phase two of the deal.
The issue of a permanent ceasefire had been one of the sticking points of the agreement, with Hamas initially insisting that Israel must first pledge to a permanent ceasefire before it would free any hostages.
Harris, however, in her statement made it appear as if the deal would definitely include a complete IDF withdrawal from Gaza in phase 2, a step that has not been agreed upon. In a de-facto way, she gave Hamas a pledge of a permanent ceasefire before the deal got underway.
Israeli officials were also frustrated by Harris’s characterization of the food insecurity in Gaza, explaining that Netanyahu had also emphasized to Harris how many steps Israel was taking to provide humanitarian assistance to Palestinians in Gaza.
None of the Hamas fighters Israel has captured in Gaza has shown signs of starvation, an official noted.
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I guess I thought that democrats could do better than this, but I suppose after Obama and Biden I shouldn’t be surprised.
In all honesty, I had teachers in high school who could have done better than this idiot.
God help us if the democrats steal another election.
She does come up with some unbelievable word salads, doesn’t she?
Hamas has said now no deal do like I said before Harris is an idiot let her keep talking she’s a brain dead moron
I was shocked as well. What an evil monster she is.
Her laughing would be enough.
She raised and is raising money for the terrorists called BLM right here in this country. She also wants to defund the police...
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