Not to necessarily defend Harris, but I don’t think it’s true that it “killed any hope.”
It was a speech. She said exactly what she needed to say, because if she hadn’t said that, AIPAC would’ve pulled out all the stops to get Trump elected. Look at what they already did to Bowman and Bush - if Harris had even hinted at sympathy for the Palestinians, they would do the same to her.
Now, it is entirely possible that what she said really does reflect her views and the direction her administration would take.
But it’s just as possible that her views are in fact the polar opposite, and that she’ll actually, if elected, bring genuine pressure to bear on Netanyahu and Israel and actually, sincerely work to end the genocide.
Or, of course her view could fall anywhere between those two extremes.
The point is that absolutely no matter what her actual view is, the only things she could’ve said in her speech were exactly the things she did say. Anything else, in this era of grotesquely corrupt American politics - this era in which high office is for all intents and purposes bought and sold on the open market, and AIPAC is one of the highest bidders out there - would’ve been political suicide
Not to necessarily defend Harris, but I don’t think it’s true that it “killed any hope.”
It was a speech. She said exactly what she needed to say, because if she hadn’t said that, AIPAC would’ve pulled out all the stops to get Trump elected. Look at what they already did to Bowman and Bush - if Harris had even hinted at sympathy for the Palestinians, they would do the same to her.
Now, it is entirely possible that what she said really does reflect her views and the direction her administration would take.
But it’s just as possible that her views are in fact the polar opposite, and that she’ll actually, if elected, bring genuine pressure to bear on Netanyahu and Israel and actually, sincerely work to end the genocide.
Or, of course her view could fall anywhere between those two extremes.
The point is that absolutely no matter what her actual view is, the only things she could’ve said in her speech were exactly the things she did say. Anything else, in this era of grotesquely corrupt American politics - this era in which high office is for all intents and purposes bought and sold on the open market, and AIPAC is one of the highest bidders out there - would’ve been political suicide