With her party torn between pro-Israel Democrats and younger progressives, she’s looking for a way to quiet one major issue until after the election.
| When Vice President Kamala Harris finally addressed the most divisive issue of the Democratic convention — the war in Gaza — she signalled she would pick up almost exactly where President Joe Biden left off., a hall of supporters who had cheered her calls for reproductive rights and her denunciations of Donald Trump suddenly quieted as she uttered the words: “With respect to the war in Gaza.
“The scale of the suffering is heartbreaking.” But, like Biden, she gave no indication that, if elected, she would use the leverage of US military support for Israel to pressure it to change tactics. In the end, Harris relied on a forceful tone to address the protesters in the party, rather than a change in policy.
“Conventions are rarely about foreign policy, and presidential elections aren’t, either,” Ivo Daalder, the chief executive of the Chicago Council on Foreign Affairs, said on Thursday.
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