I’ve often assumed Harris didn’t want to insult her boss by going against him, because I got the impression she was planning to give Netanyahu what for once she took over - especially with him escalating things further and further. Did anyone else get that vibe, or was it just wishful thinking on my part?
I don’t see why both those statements can’t be true.
We all know that when someone says “israel has a right to dEfEnD iTsElF” they intend for the statement to be a thought terminating cliche that supports maintaining the current status quo. That is, a genocide in Gaza.
You can say Israel has the right to defend itself and mean it as long as you’re talking about the immediate retaliation (even then, as a nation with access to high level intelligence and technology, the responses civilian death was still unacceptable).
You CANNOT say it in relation to the months that came after. Israel isn’t ‘defending itself’ anymore, their borders aren’t in dire need, their citizens as a whole are not in danger. But, similar to Russia prior to Ukraine’s successful long range strikes into their territory, Israel will spout nonsense about protecting it’s citizens that see danger on a scale 1/10000th of that of the occupied territory of Gaza.
Isntreal doesn’t have a right to “defend itself” from problems that it created in the first place by being shitty Nazi neighbors.