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Home Front: Politix
Kamala Harris declines to attend Netanyahu address to Congress
2024-07-23
[Washington Examiner] Vice President Kamala Harris will not attend Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress.

The move is likely an attempt to distance herself from the Biden administration’s stance on the war in Gaza, which has rattled the Democratic Party. By distancing herself from the heavily pro-Israel stance of President Joe Biden, she could help neuter attacks from the progressive wing of the Democratic Party.

Dozens of progressive Democrats are boycotting Netanyahu’s speech as well.

Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Ben Cardin (D-MD) will preside over Netanyahu’s speech in Harris’s stead. He is retiring at the end of the year. Cardin is also the special representative on antisemitism, racism, and intolerance for the 57-nation Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Parliamentary Assembly.

Harris will instead meet with Netanyahu at another more private point during the Israeli leader’s stay, according to multiple reports. Biden is expected to meet with him as well.
Posted by:Besoeker

#15   they will still try to disrupt the D convention if they can

Turning on their paymasters for not being pure enough. Seems fair to me.
Posted by: trailing wife   2024-07-23 20:07  

#14  little symbolic messages won't impress the pro Hamas teams on campuses or elsewhere

they will still try to disrupt the D convention if they can
Posted by: Lord Garth   2024-07-23 19:57  

#13  President Biden used to sometimes talk strongly pro-Israel, but his actions always contained a knife aimed at the Israeli back.
Posted by: trailing wife   2024-07-23 18:09  

#12  ^Everything is relative. Biden is "heavily pro-Israel" compared to Tony the Toad.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2024-07-23 16:39  

#11   By distancing herself from the heavily pro-Israel stance of President Joe Biden
Say what??? What heavily pro-Israel stance?
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia   2024-07-23 16:23  

#10  Trump and Netanyahu to meet Friday in Florida
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2024-07-23 15:22  

#9  Didn't we risk shed blood and lose generational treasure for Kuwait?

Yes.
Posted by: Skidmark   2024-07-23 14:48  

#8  ^^^ An Osama bin Laden fan boy.
Posted by: Whavick Scourge of the Apes9857   2024-07-23 14:39  

#7  Is Israel our most important ME ally? Granted they are a great ally, but what about the ones that control oil or set petrodollars to our increasingly worthless dollar? Didn't we risk blood and treasure for Kuwait?
Posted by: Regular+joe   2024-07-23 14:22  

#6  How presidential.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2024-07-23 12:58  

#5  Brennan an Valjar grin broadly.
Posted by: Besoeker   2024-07-23 12:34  

#4  Yet another protocol slight by Demokrats to the leader of our most important Middle East ally. Dumb on so many levels, but made Obama smile, which was the point of the gesture to those that note such signals.
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2024-07-23 12:31  

#3  ^And some might say "dumb c*nt"!
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2024-07-23 09:18  

#2  
Some might say just another Liberal Anti-Semitic Democrat.

Some might say it is JB's place as she still is only VP.

Then some might say playing it neutral for Nov votes?
Posted by: NN2N1   2024-07-23 08:53  

#1  Benjamin Netanyahu Lands in U.S., Joe Biden and Kamala Harris Absent to Greet Him
Posted by: Skidmark   2024-07-23 07:52  

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