Former US vice president and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris says she regrets that the Biden administration did not put more pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the Gaza war.
In an interview with the New York Times, when Harris was asked to pinpoint missteps, or what she would have done differently from then-president Joe Biden, she answers: she and the Biden administration not doing more to pressure Netanyahu over how he was waging the Gaza war “as it related to innocent Palestinians.”
In the interview, she also praises New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, who has been criticized for his harshly anti-Israel stance.
“I do not think he’s a scary face for the Democratic Party,” she says, lauding the excitement he generated from younger voters.
She called Mamdani after his victory offering advice on how to hire his staff and serve as an executive, the report says.
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