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Wednesday, August 21, 2024
Harris’s Jewish liason praises Biden’s work to prevent Israel-Hamas war spillover
Jacob Magid is The Times of Israel's US bureau chief
CHICAGO — In one of his first public appearances since being appointed the Jewish liaison of Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign, Ilan Goldenberg touts the Biden administration’s efforts to prevent the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza from deteriorating into an all-out regional conflict.
Goldenberg, who stepped aside from his role of senior aide on the National Security Council to join the campaign, says he has “very little confidence” that former president Donald Trump would succeed in preventing such a regional war if he had been president in the past 10 months since October 7.
Trump argues that the October 7 onslaught wouldn’t have occurred at all if he were president because his administration’s sanction regime against Iran had left it with no funds to backroll proxies like Hamas.
Goldenberg says Harris — like Biden before her — is committed to “freedom and security for both Israelis and Palestinians.”
