The Democratic Party Conventional Convention

Did the real Kamala Harris Stand up?

President Joe Biden read the tea leaves, and, from the periphery of the political system, Vice President (VP) Kamala Harris emerged as the Democratic candidate for President of the United States of America. The American public knew that Kamala Harris was VP, was not sure of how to pronounce her first name, and was not familiar with her voyage to the top spot. By announcing  that the convention theme “’For the People, For Our Future,”’ will further introduce Vice President Kamala Harris and Governor Tim Walz to the nation and lay out their bold vision for America, including how they will fight for people, our freedoms, and our future,” the Democratic Party convention unraveled the mystery of “who is presidential candidate Kamala Harris?”

Grandnieces explained how to pronounce her first name and an assortment of previous well-respected Democrat luminaries detailed why they love and we should love candidate Harris. Finally, the real-life Kamala Harris took the stage, eloquently traced the course of her life and outlined her recommended policies, including the awaited “ticking bomb” that has divided the Democratic Party  ─ handling of the Middle East crisis. Did the real Kamala Harris stand up?

To the eager Democrats, more from being influenced by the engineered media than what they saw, Kamala Harris was convincing, presenting herself as a patriotic and  dedicated American, fighting  for people’s rights, and demonstrating ability to handle the previously mentioned critical issue facing the Democratic Party ─ the Middle East crisis. Driven by the manipulated euphoria, the followers of the Democratic Party ruled that the real Kamala Harris stood up.

A surface phenomena!
Kamala Harris did not have to express herself with the narratives she used. Her presentation reinforced the reasons guiding those driven to the Trump candidacy — Democratic overwhelming support for NATO, reinforcement of foreign wars, liberal hypocrisy, promotion of the military-industrial complex, interference in other nations, and claiming  the moral high ground. Candidate Harris may have harmed her candidacy. Parse the words.

Before a delegation, chanting Trump rhetoric of “USA, USA, USA,” VP Harris said, “I will always stand up for Israel’s right to defend itself, and I will always ensure Israel has the ability to defend itself. Because the people of Israel must never again face the horror that a terrorist organization called Hamas caused on October 7, including unspeakable sexual violence and the massacre of young people at a music festival.”

U.S. foreign policy defends its global hegemony — economic, cultural, and militarist — against perceived opponents in China and Russia. Harris’ dialogue prompted many questions:

Why does Israel, which offends U.S. global hegemony, always deserve unique attention?
How does Israel fit in with U.S. objectives and U.S. participation in worldwide conflicts?
Why is apartheid Israel defended in its theft of Palestinian lands, dehumanizing  the Palestinian people, and murdering their children?
Who are the adversaries that Israel must defend itself against? Are they Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran, who have no offensive capabilities — no air force, no tanks, no navies, and no desire to be vanquished?

By some weird (favored word these days) thinking, adopting Israel’s problems as America’s problems is an ordinary consideration. Israel’s adversaries are immediately America’s adversaries. Problems that the U.S. has with China and Russia receive no attention in Israel; hey, Russia and China are two of Israel’s favored partners.

If Kamala Harris does not want “the people of Israel to again face the horror that a terrorist organization called Hamas caused on October 7, including unspeakable sexual violence and the massacre of young people at a music festival,” shouldn’t she advise Israel that it is mandatory that the Zionist terrorist organization stop inflicting upon the people of Palestine the horrors it has given them for 75 years, including unspeakable violence against the population and massacres of infants? Unlike Israel, which has killed many American civilians and service people (USS Liberty), Hamas has not done any damage to Americans and, from an American perspective, cannot be  designated a terrorist organization, no more that the U.S., which committed several atrocities in Vietnam and Iraq, wants to be labelled a terrorist organization.  

Her reading of a scripted AIPAC document was evident from the additional Harris comment, “At the same time, what has happened in Gaza over the past 10 months is devastating. So many innocent lives lost. Desperate, hungry people fleeing for safety, over and over again. The scale of suffering is heartbreaking.”

This is the usual and cunning Zionist practice of presenting everything with a “balanced approach.” Make sure there is no appearance of extensive one-sidedness, and include a false hope with some attention to the Palestinians, such as, “what has happened in Gaza over the past 10 months is devastating.” Harris describes Hamas’ committing devastation upon Israelis, but makes no mention of who caused the devastation in Gaza. She recites “many innocent lives lost,” rather than “innocent people murdered.” Who promoted “desperate, hungry people fleeing for safety, over and over again, and who induced “the scale of suffering that is heartbreaking.” The culprit Israel is never mentioned.

For the umpteenth time, we hear, “With respect to the war in Gaza, President Biden and I are working around the clock because now is the time to get a hostage deal and cease-fire done.” Wasn’t the “time to get a hostage deal and cease-fire done” nine months ago, before tens of thousands of Palestinians were slaughtered and almost all of them were several times displaced?

“President Biden and I are working to end this war, such that Israel is secure, the hostages are released, the suffering in Gaza ends and the Palestinian people can realize their right to dignity, security, freedom, and self-determination.” Mention of Palestinians' "right to dignity, security, freedom, and self-determination" has been an annual ritual for the Democrat’s and a doctrine used to appease the masses for decades.

Anthony Blinken, the most incapable Secretary of State in all U.S. history, will probably find his heir saying the same stuff in year 2030, except for replacing the words “Palestinian people,” with the words, “the  ten surviving Palestinians.”

By some weird (favored word these days) thinking, the convention invited the parents of a Zionist American, who was captured by Hamas, to plead for his release. The parents stated he had migrated to Israel to be with his people. Let’s place this in perspective.

This person grew up in the United States, received his education and training in the United States, speaks English. and identifies with American culture. He has no identification with Israelis, who speak Hebrew, eat different foods, and have a different history and culture. Does he share much with a Moroccan or Tunisian Jew? Are these his people? Isn’t he American?

An American deserts the nation that nurtured him and assists a despotic nation in its genocide of the Palestinians, and receives flattering attention. The Americans of Palestinian descent, murdered, harassed, and detained by Israel, who labored selflessly to relieve the Palestinians burdens, receive no attention.

VP Harris continued her pandering to the military-industrial complex with the brilliant remarks, “And know this: I will never hesitate to take whatever action is necessary to defend our forces and our interests against Iran and Iran-backed terrorists,” followed with, “Trump, on the other hand, threatened to abandon NATO. He encouraged Putin to invade our allies, he said Russia could "do whatever the hell they want… as President, I will stand strong with Ukraine and our NATO allies.”

In the 2016 election, a major part of the American electorate rejected the conventional wisdoms of using NATO for offensive purposes, enhancing the military-industrial complex, and U.S. involvement in constant wars. In 2024, eight years later, the Dems still do not realize why Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election.

Kamala Harris may have her heart in the right place and may want to liberate the Palestinian people from the Israeli genocide. She addressed the issues in the wrong manner. Everything she said could have been iterated in a more politically adept style — negotiating to stop wars rather than helping others in expanding the wars, working for a mutual and just solution to the Middle East crisis rather than committing to assisting Israel, proposing ways to reduce Iran and DPRK hostility rather than threatening them, striving to reduce conflict rather than strengthening NATO for more conflict.

Moving voters away from the Democratic Party continued with the hypocritical statement, “…to be clear, my entire career, I’ve only had one client: the people.” If so, why did Harris pander to the middle class, by offering, “Well, instead of a Trump tax hike, we will pass a middle-class tax cut that will benefit more than 100 million Americans.”

Tax cuts are controversial and usually occur during times of recessions. Is Harris saying that the present tax rates, which are about the lowest since World War II, are still not sufficiently low, and that the Biden administration ignored the middle class and will make amends? Is the latter admission good politics? Is it wise to cut taxes and increase consumer demand during an inflationary period? The proposed tax cut is a disaster for the American economy. Not wanting to drift this article too far from its central issue, I’ll defer discussion of the proposed tax cut for another article.  

Number one issue
There are a multitude of reasons that the U.S. participation in the genocide of the Palestinian people is the number one issue in the U.S. today and, unless that issue is justly satisfied, it does not matter who gets elected.  Supporting the genocide,

• Turns the Declaration of Independence and Constitution into words on paper, which are used to benefit an elite and cajole the masses.

• Reduces democracy, human rights, freedom, justice, and right of self-determination to farce. 

• Intensifies the divisions that have already polarized America.

• Drives many Americans to despair, unable to comprehend how an obvious genocide is supported and permitted. The American government and a mass of citizens exhibit insensitivity to the genocide, insensibility to the forces driving it, lack of concern for the Palestinian people, and leave the knowing America. bewildered.

• Betrays American sacrifices in World War II, where the U.S. fought against a tyranny and now supports its almost identical lookalike.

• Ratifies the use of those killed in Nazi labor camps to justify the mass killings of innocent Palestinians and demeans their deaths.

• Increases resentment to Jews and reinforces charges that Jews manipulate power and control media and courts.

• Disturbs American youth who cannot understand how a legitimate and necessary protest against genocide becomes charged as an anti-Semitic diatribe and how their pleas for human tights turns them into anti-Semites.  

Conclusion
Political pundits predict Kamal Harris will lose the election if she shows a neutral attitude in the Middle East crisis and a lack of favoritism for apartheid Israel. They indicate that her chances to win the election are increased if she allows Israel to exterminate the Palestinian people, which will continue to cause massive upheavals that involve the American people and could include future civil strife.

Is this possible, a minor nation is able to give a major political Party in the world’s most powerful nation a sinister Faustian bargain that degrades the United States to a historical position below that of Benito Mussolini who followed Adolph Hitler’s dictates? Can any American accept this bargain, especially when using American muscle to counter the genocide is a simple solution and the correct policy? Are apartheid and genocide the norm and can either be acceptable?

Many of us Jews have become feared of being seen as attached to Israel. Must we now become ashamed of being Americans?