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Harris restates Israel views; Trump: It’s toast without me Former President Donald Trump and VicePresident Kamala Harris were given a chance to speak about Israel during Tuesday night’s presidential debate, but the ABC moderators failed to ask about rising antisemitism in America and the wave of pro-Hamas campus activism that’s been reignited as the new school year got underway. In reiterating her support of Israel’s right to defend itself, Harris voiced sorrow that “far too many innocent Palestinians have been killed,” and said “we must chart a course for a two state solution.” Trump said Harris “hates Israel” and that if she’s elected “Israel will not exist within two years from now … because the whole place is going to get blown up — Arabs, Jewish people, Israel. Israel will be gone.” Harris responded that “I have my entire career and life supported Israel and the Israeli people.” Trump began his comments about Israel by talking about Ukraine, saying President Putin would not have invaded had Trump been president. Trump declined to say whether he wants Ukraine to win. ••• The debate segment on Israel, which began nearly an hour in, opened with a moderator reminding Harris that in pledging to support Israel’s right to defend itself… ABC: “you added, ‘It matters how,’ saying international humanitarian law must be respected, Israel must do more to protect innocent civilians. You said that nine months ago. Now, an estimated
Vice-President Kamala Harris at Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Ariz., on Aug. 9, and former President Donald Trump at the same venue on Aug. 23. Gage Skidmore via WikiCommons
40,000 Palestinians are dead. Nearly 100 hostages remain. Just last week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said there’s not a deal in the making. President Biden has not been able to break through the stalemate. How would you do it?” Harris: Well, let’s understand how we got here. On Oct. 7, Hamas, a terrorist organization, slaughtered 1,200 Israelis, many of them young people who were simply attending a concert; women were horribly raped, and so absolutely I said then and I say now, Israel has a right to defend itself — we would. And how it does so matters, because it is also true, far too many innocent Palestinians
have been killed — children, mothers. What we know is that this war must end. It must end immediately. And the way it will end is we need a ceasefire deal, and we need the hostages out. And so we will continue to work around the clock on that; work around the clock also understanding that we must chart a course for a two state solution, and in that solution, there must be security for the Israeli people and Israel, and an equal measure for the Palestinians. But the one thing I will assure you always, I will always give Israel the ability to defend itself — in particular, as it relates to Iran, and any threat that Iran and its proxies pose to Israel.
But we must have a two-state solution, where we can rebuild Gaza, where the Palestinians have security, self-determination and the dignity they so rightly deserve. ABC: President Trump, how would you negotiate with Netanyahu and also Hamas in order to get the hostages out and prevent the killing of more innocent civilians in Gaza? Trump: If I were president, it would have never started. If I were president, Russia would have never, ever — I know Putin very well — he would have never, and there was no threat of it either, by the way, for four years, have gone into Ukraine and killed millions of people when you add it up — far worse than people understand what’s going on over there. But when she mentions about Israel, all of a sudden, she hates Israel. She wouldn’t even meet with Netanyahu when he went to Congress to make a very important speech. She refused to be there because she was at a sorority party of hers. She wanted to go to the sorority party. She hates Israel. If she’s president, I believe that Israel will not exist within two years from now, and I’ve been pretty good at predictions, and I hope I’m wrong about that one. She hates Israel. 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. Israel will be gone. It would have never happened. Iran was See Trump, Harris on page 2
UNRWA exposed as Judea-Samaria menace
By David Isaac, JNS Revelations by Israel’s government about the United Nations Relief and Works Agency have shattered the group’s carefully cultivated image as a humanitarian organization, revealing it to be no less than an arm of Hamas in Gaza. However, little light has been thrown on UNRWA’s identical role in Judea and Samaria. A new film, “UNRWA at War,” focuses on the educational side of UNRWA’s activities, in which children are taught not just to hate, but to kill. Just as it did in Gaza, UNRWA is inculcating children with the same genocidal creed in Judea and Samaria, only in this case for Fatah, the control-
A child wields a machine gun in a clip from “UNRWA at War.”
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ling party in the Palestinian Authority. The roughly 20-minute film was released by the Jerusalem-based Center for Near East Policy Research on Sept. 1 and is available online. The center’s director, David Bedein, told JNS that the movie shows what’s happening in Bethlehem. “That’s the next place they [the terrorists] are going to break out,” he said. When could such an attack take place? “It could be as soon as tomorrow,” he said. The film shows that terrorists, such as Dalal Mughrabi, a Fatah member who participated in the 1978 Coastal Road massacre in Israel, in which 38 Israeli civilians, including 13 children,
were murdered, are routinely held up as heroes and role models in UNRWA schools. Images of Mughrabi and other terrorists adorn the schools’ walls. In the film, Arab students in Judea and Samaria, products of UNRWA schools, speak of Mughrabi with reverence. “She’s like my sister, like my mother. She’s part of our people,” says a boy from the Al-Amari refugee camp east of Ramallah. A girl of about six, also from Al-Amari, says, “Dhalal Mughrabi is a Palestinian martyr. She fought against the Jews. She blew them up.” Bedein, who has been sounding the alarm regarding UNRWA for decades, See Film exposes on page 4