hotair.com By ED MORRISSEY
Alternate headline: Guess who’s not sitting still for a march-stealing Gavin Newsom?
If you want to see the future of the Democrats’ foreign policy direction, look no further than today’s Politico report on Kamala Harris’ influence on Joe Biden. According to their sources, the Veep’s influence on Biden regarding the war in Gaza has already begun paying dividends. Their three sources tell Politico that Harris has pushed Biden to demonstrate more “sensitivity” to the plight of Palestinians, and to take a harder line on Israel and their war efforts:
In internal conversations about the war in Gaza, Harris has argued that it is time to start making “day after” plans for how to handle the wreckage of the war once the fighting ends, one senior administration official said.
One person close to the vice president’s office said she believes the United States should be “tougher” on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; she has called for being “more forceful at seeking a long-term peace and two-state solution,” this person said.
And … how’s that going, anyway? Before answering that, read on to find out who’s idea it was to start denouncing “Islamophobia” at at least the same pitch or higher than the ugly avalanche of anti-Semitic rhetoric and actions that emerged in the first days of the war:
In the immediate aftermath of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel, which left more than a thousand civilians dead and hundreds more kidnapped as hostages, Harris urged Biden to make sure he condemned Islamophobia at the same time as he spoke out against anti-Semitism. The Washington Post reported last month that Harris “suggested” Biden add a line denouncing Islamophobia in his Oct. 10 speech on the outbreak of war.
Since then, Biden, Harris and other administration officials have grown increasingly willing to criticize Israel’s approach to battling Hamas, including this week when the president issued a stark warning to the Israeli government about the potential political consequences of its ferocious military offensive…
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