Opinion

Kamala Harris determined that Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro was simply too Jewish for the Democrats. Despite having far more political benefits, Harris went with radical Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her Vice Presidential pick. Given the Democrats’ track record of throwing unpopular candidates over the side of the highway if they poll badly enough, let’s see if Walz, unlike Joe Biden, can actually make it to election day.

When victory appears so close at hand, perhaps that’s why there are many Israelis who do not want hostage negotiations to succeed if it comes at the cost of keeping Hamas in power and giving in to its demands. Likewise, there is disregard for the opinions of Israel’s trade partners and political allies. Then there was this week’s storming of the Sde Teiman military detention facility in southern Israel, which holds many terrorists from Gaza.

With little time before the election, Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign organized visual and in-person gatherings based on affiliations to drum up support, such as Asian Americans for Harris, Republicans for Harris, and the humorous-sounding White Dudes for Harris. Last Friday, the Jewish Democratic Council of America ran an hour-long Zoom pep rally with some of the Vice President’s most visible Jewish supporters offering optimism and reassurance that their candidate supports Israel, stands against anti-Semitism, and can beat Donald Trump in her White house run.

The contrast between the pro-Hamas mob outside the Capitol building and the prime minister’s address illustrated the stakes involved in the debate about Israel.

 What Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in his address to a joint meeting of Congress was important. Both Americans and Israelis need to understand that the war in the Gaza Strip is just one front in a conflict with Iran that is, as he rightly said, a battle “between civilization and barbarism.”

The Democratic Party base has become overrun with socialist policy stemming from Marxist ideology. For a while, this was tempered by the Party bosses and elites, who pushed forward a steadily progressive agenda without tipping towards outright extremist communism. These same people, thinking that the time is ripe for truly embracing radicalism, have embraced as their chosen nominee the most leftwing radical presidential candidate in American presidential history.

The media-manufactured enthusiasm around Kamala Harris is desperately trying to obfuscate the fact that her positions on every issue is to the left of Joe Biden, who based his administration on the policy prescriptions of Bernie Sanders. That is the most evident, and most apparent, with her views on the US-Israel relationship, and what she thinks the future of that relationship should be.