Once again - the Biden/Harris strategy FAILED. Of course, the pertinent question is if the ceasefire strategy failed or it was a sham, given that every lay person, even my relative who watches only Morning Joe, could see that Bibi was stringing them along for his personal benefit. We had dozens of resignations from within State and other departments saying how the administration was lying about its own role, about its own compliance with US law, and about the Israeli role in the conflict and in negotiations.
60000+ people died with American weapons supplied by the Biden administration. (The numbers Trump cites for his ethnic cleansing seem to suggest that upto 400000 people might be dead btw).
And I'm sorry - among the many actions and inactions related to Palestine during her brief campaign, refusing to meet with Bibi once pales in comparison to explicitly backing the failed negotiation strategy, and arms shipments, and very explicitly and clearly opposing ANY leverage she might have used during negotiations as president. I notice you didn't mention any of these in your reply. I'm applying Occam's Razor here - something that has failed before will fail again. And there's no logic or evidence that there was going to be a change in strategy or that it was going to produce different results.
In the same way, negotiations for a "two-state solution" have been going on since before I was born. Israel benefits from the status quo, Israel benefits from a complete cleansing, but Israel loses if there is any increase in Palestinian autonomy. Why would Israel negotiate away the gains they have made over seven decades, if no US administration since George HW Bush has been willing to use its leverage over them? Quite simply, they won't! And haven't!
Now, I'm going to suggest a possible second reason why Biden and Harris would talk about the two state solution. The highest foreign policy priority of the Biden administration was Israel-Saudi normalisation. This has been confirmed in dozens of reports about Brett McGurk and Jake Sullivan, who ran Israel policy from the White House. The Saudis have made it clear that it is publicly humiliating for them to make a deal with Israel if Palestine continues to not exist. I am going to be bold and suggest that the two-state solution rhetoric is lip service from an administration that
aided Palestinian genocide and prioritised Saudi normalisation.
I see that you haven't defended her use of "it's Judea and Samaria" Bill, or the lack of a Palestinian speaker at the DNC. About Ritchie - if you send a murderous bigot like him, you might alienate the community he's bigoted against. A very basic and important part of politics is managing and prioritising bits of your coalition that might be in conflict with each other. She made a clear choice with her actions including sending Ritchie to the one state where everyone knew Arab voters had a decisive proportion.
Please look at how Trump built his odious, winning, coalition. He went to the Libertarian Party conference, got booed, asked for their vote. He went to RFK Jr, looked weak and desparate, made him promises, asked for his backing, and it likely proved decisive, given the margins involved and his polling support. He went to Dearborn, found the highest-level sucker who would fall for his schtick, and had a mayor and an imam at his rally. He went to his old friend Adelson, made some dark promise, and got a hundred million dollars from her. He humiliated and debased himself, he lied and he spoke vague half-truths, and he won. That is politics. Kamala spoke her lies and half-truths in an even less convincing way, she and her party prefer to humiliate rather than court third-party voters. Going out to your voters - all potential voters - and telling them what they want to hear.
Finally, sure, I magically obtained US citizenship and voted for the guy who was promising to fire and/or deport me because I thought his genocide would be better than the existing genocide.
I'll leave you with these - DNC delegates hearing the names of dead Palestinians, and the most prominent national Democrat
this week:
Feb 2 2025: House Dem leader Hakeem Jeffries: “Sinwar is gone. Sinwar is gone. And
Hamas is on the run... and Iran is at one of its weakest points in decades. “
We can't take our foot off the gas pedal until Iran is brought to its knees — for the good of the world.“
ps - that candidate lost 3 months ago, during which thousands of Palestinians died. Any moment since was a good moment to speak about the genocide she is complicit in. She has chosen not to.
