Ismail Haniyeh Assassination Is Bad News for Kamala Harris

Many notable figures were absent from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's congressional address in Washington, D.C., last week, but one name in particular stood out: Vice President Kamala Harris.

Harris, the presumptive Democratic nominee in November's election, met with Netanyahu on July 25 and urged him to reach a ceasefire deal with Hamas and bring home the hostages being held by the group.

After the meeting, Harris issued a televised statement that attempted to tread a fine line between expressing support for Israel and sympathy for Palestinians—sympathy that was widely seen as going further than what President Joe Biden had previously expressed.

"What has happened in Gaza over the past nine months is devastating—the images of dead children and desperate, hungry people fleeing for safety, sometimes displaced for the second, third or fourth time," Harris said, adding: "We cannot allow ourselves to become numb to the suffering. And I will not be silent."