Former President Donald Trump ripped Vice President Kamala Harris over her stance on Israel during Tuesday’s presidential debate, saying the veep “hates Israel.”
“She wouldn’t even meet with [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu when he went to Congress to make a very important speech,” the Republican nominee noted. “She refused to be there because she was at a sorority party of hers. She went to go to the sorority party.”
“She hates Israel,” Trump charged.
Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump speaks during a presidential debate with Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris at the National Constitution Center, Tuesday, Sept.10, 2024, in Philadelphia. APDozens of Democratic lawmakers publicly boycotted Netanyahu’s July 24 address to a joint session of Congress over his handling of the Israel-Hamas war
Harris, 59, also skipped the speech, which she would’ve presided over from the deis behind Bibi, opting instead to attend a gathering of members of Zeta Phi Beta in Indianapolis.
“If she’s president, I believe that Israel will not exist within two years from now,” Trump estimated, adding, “and I’ve been pretty good at predictions, and I hope I’m wrong about that one.”
The former president further accused Harris of hating “the Arab population” as well.
“She hates Israel [and] at the same time, in her own way, she hates the Arab population because the whole place is going to get blown up – Arabs, Jewish people, Israel,” Trump said. “Israel will be gone. It would have never happened.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to a joint meeting of Congress at the Capitol in Washington, July 24, 2024. APThe 45th president claimed that if he was president, the Israel-Hamas war “would have never happened.”
Meanwhile, Harris vowed that she will “always give Israel the ability to defend itself, in particular, as it relates to as it relates to Iran.”
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The vice president also backed President Biden’s proposal to make an independent state for Palestinians.
“But we must have a two state solution, where we can rebuild Gaza, where the Palestinians have security,” Harris said.
The Democratic nominee called Trump’s allegation that she hates the Jewish state “absolutely not true.”
Vice President Harris vowed during the debate that she will “always give Israel the ability to defend itself, in particular, as it relates to as it relates to Iran.” AFP via Getty Images“I have my entire career and life supported Israel and the Israeli people,” she claimed. “He’s trying to again divide and distract from the reality, which is, it is very well known, that Donald Trump is weak and wrong on national security and foreign policy.”
The Republican Jewish Coalition argued that Trump was “100% right” about Harris.
“Kamala Harris boycotted the Prime Minister of Israel’s speech to Congress to attend a sorority luncheon – yes, a sorority luncheon – as the Jewish state fights a war for it’s very survival,” the group wrote on X. “A total disgrace.”
The RJC, which is backing Trump for the White House, also slammed Harris’ support for a two state solution, arguing that it “would be a reward for the terrorists.”
“She would be a total disaster as Commander in Chief,” the group said.
