Posted on 07/26/2024 6:43:48 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
VP Kamala Harris on Thursday said she urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reach a cease-fire deal soon with Hamas so that dozens of hostages held by the militants in Gaza since Oct. 7 can return home.
Harris said she had a “frank and constructive” conversation with Netanyahu in which she affirmed Israel’s right to defend itself but also expressed deep concern about the high death toll in Gaza over nine months of war and the “dire” humanitarian situation there.
With all eyes on the likely Democratic presidential nominee, Harris largely reiterated President Joe Biden's longstanding message that it's time to find an endgame to the brutal war in Gaza, where more than 39,000 Palestinians have died. Yet she offered a more forceful tone about the urgency of the moment just one day after Netanyahu gave a fiery speech to Congress in which he defended the war, vowed “total victory” against Hamas and made relatively scant mention of cease-fire negotiations.
“There has been hopeful movement in the talks to secure an agreement on this deal,” Harris told reporters shortly after meeting with Netanyahu. “And as I just told Prime Minister Netanyahu, it is time to get this deal done.”
Netanyahu met separately earlier in the day with Biden, who has also been calling on Israel and Hamas to come to an agreement on a U.S.-backed, three-phase deal to bring home remaining hostages and establish an extended cease-fire.
The White House said in a statement that Biden discussed with Netanyahu “the need to close the remaining gaps, finalize the deal as soon as possible, bring the hostages home, and reach a durable end to the war in Gaza.” Biden and Netanyahu also discussed improving flow of aid into Gaza as well as the ongoing threat posed by Iranian-backed militant groups...
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Netanyahu also derided protesters who massed near the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, calling them Iran’s “useful idiots.”
Has Harris been sleeping all her life because you’ll never get a cease-fire deal with islam
Harris: ‘It’s time for us to do what we have been doing, and that time is every day’
I guess she’s got some street cred, now that she’s put BiBi in his place!
*SMIRK*
Kamala should go and personally oversee negotiations with Hamas for the hostages release.
Its not Netanyahu’s fault that the hostages aren’t home. Hamas should just release them, period. Israel is the only country that is held to the standard that they should be required to negotiate to get innocent hostages back.
It is time...because of the importance of the passage of time. /sarc
Yes, Netanyahu wants hostages to go home since October 7!
Harris is talking to the WRONG SIDE
I thought Biden was still preezy?
“Kamala should go and personally oversee negotiations with Hamas for the hostages release.”
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She’s too stupid to negotiate anything with anyone.
Hopefully bibi told her “no tissue not, hamas is still around! And I will thank you for staying out of our war agaisnt terrorism and cold blooded murderers and rapist and deceased body violators!”
Well, the IDF could cease fire. Ham-ass and mooselimbs? Not so much. Carmello “fweedumb” hawiss is an idiot.
Netanyahu should have already wiped them all out months ago, which was his only mistake. The longer he takes the more liberals have time to whine about civilians and children and other bs.
I assumed that was the point of teeman8r’s post!
Yes, I get that but my point was writ large. Harris is is incapable of negotiating anything.
Maybe Biden could make her the “negotiations Czar” or something.
Harris and the Israeli left are working to save Hamas — in return for a small number of hostages — and wait for Hamas to begin another war later.
Except a temporary one so they can re-arm.
So that they can become unburdened from has been
First off, is it dozens or is it 138. Should we not have an exact number? 2nd, should we not ask Hamas how many are alive?
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