Harris' remarks followed a meeting she held with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington Thursday.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17956865

‘It is time for this war to end,’ Harris tells Netanyahu; ‘I will not be silent’ on Palestinian suffering

    • prole@beehaw.orgEnglish
      17·
      4 months ago

      It’s almost as if politicians (particularly at this level) often need to walk a rhetorical tightrope so as to avoid alienating large swathes of voters. Crazy.

      • macabrett[they/them]@lemmy.ml
        14·
        4 months ago

        Its almost as if the person you’re responding to is saying that public letter condemning all protestors is alienating them. Crazy.

          • Schmoo@slrpnk.net
            7·
            3 months ago

            I believe the point they’re making is that she alienated more voters condemning the protests than she would have by refusing to.

            • millie@beehaw.orgEnglish
              1·
              3 months ago

              Are those voters likely to vote for Trump instead? Or do you think the centrists that Democrats tiptoe around during election years are?

              Once she’s in, once the immediate danger to the basic functioning of our government is over, I’ll be interested to see how she handles it. Right now though? She seems to be providing criticism while walking a careful line and trying to play it safe.

              If she doesn’t come firmly down on refusing to materially support the IDF after the election, I’ll be first in line to start making noise about it. But at the moment? We need to secure our ability to have future elections first or it’s going to get a whole lot worse. I get it.

      • anachronist@midwest.socialEnglish
        9·
        3 months ago

        It’s almost as if politicians (particularly at this level) often need to walk a rhetorical tightrope so as to avoid alienating large swathes of voters [small set of powerful donors]. Crazy.

        FIFY

      • Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
        8·
        3 months ago

        The majority of the Democrat voterbase opposes genocide. She is continuing to drive Democrat voters to third parties by not taking a strong anti-genocide stance.