Top moments in Trump-Harris debate: Christianity and abortion, 'Venezuela on steroids’ and rally size
3. Harris expresses support for a two-state solution; Trump says Harris ‘hates Israel’
When the debate turned to Israel and the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks perpetrated by Hamas, Harris asserted that “Israel has a right to defend itself” while stressing that “how it does so matters.” Lamenting that “far too many innocent Palestinians have been killed,” she proclaimed: “This war must end.”
“It must end immediately and the way it will end is we need a cease-fire deal and we need the hostages out,” she added, vowing that the Biden administration will “continue to work around the clock on that." She further claimed that she would "chart a course for a two-state solution."
Harris identified “security for the Israeli people and Israel” and “an equal measure for the Palestinians” as an essential part of the two-state solution she envisions. Promising that she will “always give Israel the ability to defend itself” when it comes to Iran, she reiterated that “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.”
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Trump took issue with Harris’ insistence that she supports Israel, bringing up Harris’ absence during a speech Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave to Congress over the summer: “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.”
“If she’s president, I believe that Israel will not exist within two years from now,” Trump warned. At the same time, Trump suggested that Harris “hates the Arab population” because he believes that under her foreign policy, “the whole place is going to get blown up: Arabs, Jewish people, Israel.”
Ryan Foley is a reporter for The Christian Post. He can be reached at: ryan.foley@christianpost.com
