Here is the egregious Kamala Harris, offering the same advice as Jake Sullivan and Joe Biden have given to Israel. “Harris Warns Israel Against Launching ‘Any Major Military Operation’ in Rafah,” i24 News, March 24, 2024:
Vice President Kamala Harris said on Sunday [March 24] that it would be a “huge mistake” to move into Rafah with any type of major military operation and she cannot rule out heavy consequences for Israeli-U.S. ties should Israel proceed.
“We have been clear in multiple conversations and in every way that any major military operation in Rafah would be a huge mistake,” Harris said to ABC News’ Senior Congressional Correspondent Rachel Scott on “ABC This Week with George Stephanopolous.”
“There’s nowhere for those folks to go,” Harris added.
This is my question: how does Kamala Harris know that entering Rafah would be a “big mistake” for Israel? Is she privy to information about Hamas’ fighters in Rafah which suggest that it will be able to withstand the IDF, and avoid the huge losses it inicurred in Gaza City and Khan Yunis?
When the Bidenites assure us that an invasion of Rafah would lead to civilian casualties, so what? All wars, including this one in Gaza, lead to civilian casualties.The questions to ask are which side is trying to minimize civilian casualties, which side is trying to maximize them, and do the figures on casualties fall within an acceptable range? We know that the IDF tries to minimize civilian casualties, mainly by warning civilians away from areas or buildings about to be targeted. To this end, the IDF, just in the first month of the war, had dropped fourteen million leaflets, sent six million messages, and made four million phone calls. These warnings had their desired effect — 900,000 Gazans left the north to go, as instructed by the IDF, south of the Wadi Gaza. And civilians have been similarly warned, wherever the IDF has gone, to leave civilian buildings — including schools, mosques, hospitals, apartment houses — where Hamas fighters and weapons have been hidden, when these will soon be targeted. At the same time Hamas has tried to prevent civilians from leaving such areas, even killing civilians who had left northern Gaza and were fleeing south along Salah Al-Din street. Hamas wants civilians to die, so that their deaths can be used in anti-Israel propaganda.
How does Kamala Harris, or Jake Sullivan, or Antony Blinken, or Joe Biden, know that the IDF won’t be able to swiftly — within weeks, according to the IDF, not months — destroy those four Hamas battalions? And why do they think that the IDF will be less successful in keeping the ratio of civilan-to-combatant deaths at an incredible 1:1, than it has been so far? Remember that according to the UN, in all the wars fought since World War II, the average ratio of civilian-to-combatant deaths has been 9:1 — nine civilians killed for every combatant. The Americans managed to reduce that ratio to 4:1 in Afghanistan, and 3:1 in Iraq. But no country in the world has done what Israel has done, in reducing the ratio to 1:1. That is why British Colonel Richard Kemp, commander of the British forces in Afghanistan, has called the IDF “the most moral army in the history of warfare” and John Spencer, a professor of urban warfare at West Point, has concluded that “the Israeli military is taking unprecedented steps to protect Gaza civilians.”
We can only predict what the invasion of Rafah will bring by looking at what has taken place during the last five months of war. There is no reason to believe that the ratio of civilian-to-combatant deaths will be different from what the IDF achieved in Gaza City and Khan Yunis — that is, 1:1. And when Kamala Harris insists that there is “no place for those folks to go” — meaning the civilians in Rafah — we have to ask on what basis she says that. The IDF has been mapping out “humanitarian islands” in the center of Gaza where “those folks can go,” just as the IDF previously found places for civilians in Gaza City to go south of the Wadi Gaza, and gave civilians in Khan Yunis maps on leaflets, showing the exact neighborhoods in and around the city where it would be safe to go.
If the Bidenites know how those four Hamas battalions still intact in Rafah can be dismantled without the IDF invading Rafah, as they have claimed, I’m sure it’s not only the Israelis who would be pleased to hear of it. So would we all. So we’ll stay right here to learn the thrilling details.
SC says
Stop telegraphing what you are about to do. Do what is needed then let us know what was done. The US elites and the UN do not give a hoot about israel save yourselves and start the task we all need to.
somehistory says
harris sees herself as an ‘expert’ on things…after all, she looked at a map; at least she claimed to have ‘studied’ a map. Now she knows exactly what Israel should not do and why. The “consequences” of the decision Israel makes will not fall on her, so she can spout whatever without any fear of certain death.
biden and the rest of his gang also see themselves as experts….and they have proven just how much expertise they possess at ruining things, breaking things which worked, and telling whopper lies.
Whatever Israel does….if they give in, they lose to hamas and perhaps all lives will be lost to the ghouls; if they keep fighting and ignore the threats from the us. and the un, they lose support (do they really have any?) and may be unable to obtain what they need to keep fighting until hamas is no more.
The ones who will suffer or be successful should be the ones making the decisions. not the idiot harris.
Suni says
Kamala know when to just shut the hell up.Israel is doing the right thing by its country and citizens.How about you and sleepy joe follow suit.This I know is too much to ask.You’d wail Nash your teeth and growl if you were asked to do the right thing.
Wellington says
She’s a complete fool, a moral and common-sense idiot, but she is not alone by any means in the American government of today, which is now led by many bad and ignorant people.
America is dying because of people like Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Kareem Jeffries, Mitch McConnell, AOC, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, John Brennan, Christopher Wray, Merrick Garland, Gavin Newsom, Letitia James, Fani Willis, Alvin Bragg, Jack Smith et al.
Yes, it’s a long list of fools and reprobates, only a handful of which I have mentioned, because it would take a huge amount of lesser human beings to destroy what was created in North America in the late 18th century by just about the wisest group of men who ever lived. Well, America is being destroyed now. No doubt. Kamala Harris serves as a poster girl for this monumental idiocy. Meanwhile, Israel must survive if there is any hope for mankind and so I say to Israel, ignore the ignoramuses now leading America and do what has to be done.
Walter Sieruk says
That message is so important that it’s well worth reiteration , The message is that Kamala Harris , along with her dolt. ,Joe Biden , are very much against the Israel Defense Force entering into Rafah and eliminating Hamas from that area of land once and for all, should surprise no informed person who well understands their insidious comradeship with the Red/Green alliance.
That Biden/Harris team are a disaster for the State of Israel , they are disaster for The United States, they are a disaster for all other Western countries , they are a disaster for all the civilized nations of the world.
Walter Sieruk says
If ,”by hook or by crook” Kamala Harris does become the next President of the United States the result of that would be a catastrophe in both the national and international level.
In addition, speaking as both an American and as a senior citizen , if that terrible subversive pro- Marxist women would achieve the Office of the Presidency of the Unites States , then, I will be glad that I’m no longer a young man. Likewise, I will then also be very sorry for the children of this country.
40 rounds says
Grant, Lee, Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, Patton, MacArthur, now we can add Kamala Harris to this distinguished list of great American military thinkers.
Jay says
Anyone give a damn what this treacherous bitch has to say moron is utterly worthless
OLD GUY says
Agree, if she’s for something I’am almost certain to be against it. She thinks she is a expert on everything, but has done nothing in her life that didn’t come from a text book. And she even gets that wrong.
James Lincoln says
Heels-up Harris: the poster woman for DEI.