Vice President Kamala Harris’ first public appearance with Tim Walz saw a large crowd in Philadelphia, while her Detroit appearance disappointed anti-war advocates
One thing Harris can do without consulting congress is supporting full Palestinian membership at the UN.
She just has to instruct the state department to instruct the US ambassador to the UN to vote for Palestinian membership. Palestine would be an international recognized state within a week.
It would be the first substantial progress on the Israel-Palestine situation since 1967.
She can do this while continuing to provide military support for Israel. But it would increase legal and diplomatic pressure on Israel.
Perhaps more importantly, it would send a message to Israel: We are willing to depart from the status quo. Don’t take our protection for granted.
This would be great. She needs these voters and her current approach of calling the people asking for an end to the genocide of the Palestinian people Trump supporters has and will continue to backfire. I think we could all agree that the Walz pickup seemed like a step in the right direction, but her rhetoric has signaled more of the same. There is some argument saying that this is triangulating around AIPAC, but she also needs to recognize that neither AIPAC or Israel want her to win this election, so you don’t gain an ally by capitulating to them or their rhetoric,
I think if she did what you suggest, she would stoke their ire, but honestly, I don’t think they have the influence they’re claimed to. If Democrats had actually stood behind the incumbent squad during those primaries, they would have won. The problem was that D’s were all too eager to throw them under the bus. If they had, they would have shown AIPACs weakness in the ability for money to control outcomes, which itself is extremely valuable. Harris needs to be setting up for a wave election and that makes the influence of AIPAC relatively moot. I think she should do what you suggest.
I didn’t know that. It’d still cost her AIPAC support, which could be devastating in the next election, but that would be fantastic of she could pull it off and stay in the running.
One thing Harris can do without consulting congress is supporting full Palestinian membership at the UN.
She just has to instruct the state department to instruct the US ambassador to the UN to vote for Palestinian membership. Palestine would be an international recognized state within a week.
It would be the first substantial progress on the Israel-Palestine situation since 1967.
She can do this while continuing to provide military support for Israel. But it would increase legal and diplomatic pressure on Israel.
Perhaps more importantly, it would send a message to Israel: We are willing to depart from the status quo. Don’t take our protection for granted.
This would be great. She needs these voters and her current approach of calling the people asking for an end to the genocide of the Palestinian people Trump supporters has and will continue to backfire. I think we could all agree that the Walz pickup seemed like a step in the right direction, but her rhetoric has signaled more of the same. There is some argument saying that this is triangulating around AIPAC, but she also needs to recognize that neither AIPAC or Israel want her to win this election, so you don’t gain an ally by capitulating to them or their rhetoric,
I think if she did what you suggest, she would stoke their ire, but honestly, I don’t think they have the influence they’re claimed to. If Democrats had actually stood behind the incumbent squad during those primaries, they would have won. The problem was that D’s were all too eager to throw them under the bus. If they had, they would have shown AIPACs weakness in the ability for money to control outcomes, which itself is extremely valuable. Harris needs to be setting up for a wave election and that makes the influence of AIPAC relatively moot. I think she should do what you suggest.
I didn’t know that. It’d still cost her AIPAC support, which could be devastating in the next election, but that would be fantastic of she could pull it off and stay in the running.