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Sunday, September 15, 2024
Asked who won US presidential debate, Israel’s top diplomat says bluntly, ‘Kamala Harris’
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Foreign Minister Israel Katz said bluntly earlier this evening that Kamala Harris won Tuesday’s debate against US presidential rival Donald Trump.
Interviewed on Channel 12 news, Katz was asked: “Who won the debate? Did you watch it?”
“Who won it? Kamala Harris,” Katz responded.
“Even he says so,” marveled one of his interviewers, surprised that Katz would be so undiplomatically definitive.
“I watched the debate,” Katz went on, but then hurriedly added that Harris won “in the debate. There’s still a long time to go” till the elections.
He was then asked about Trump’s assertion in the debate that if Harris wins the election, Israel will not exist two years from now, and did not directly address the question.
“Israel will be and will exist forever,” he said, adding that Trump “wanted to show his great commitment to the State of Israel. And that’s how he presented it.”
Katz also denied that government discussions have related to concerns over a potential Harris election victory, saying there were no discussions of that nature, “formal or informal. It’s not Israel’s business to deal with that. We’ll await the results of the election. The assumption has to be that we don’t intervene there [in their domestic politics] and they don’t intervene here.”
The Times of Israel Community.