Doug Schoen is a former political adviser and pollster to then-US President Bill Clinton, a Democratic apparatchik of long standing, whom you might expect would be all in for Kamala Harris as president. But he isn’t. As he revealed on Fox News on September 10, he will not be voting for Harris, citing her policies toward Israel and combating antisemitism as the main reasons. More on this pro-Israel Democrat’s alarm over Harris can be found here: “Former Clinton Adviser Says Harris Not ‘Sufficiently Committed to Israel and Fighting Antisemitism,’” by Corey Walker, Algemeiner, September 10, 2024:
…During an appearance on Fox News, Schoen said he “cannot” commit to voting for Harris, stating that he is “undecided” on who he will support in the 2024 presidential race. The former Clinton pollster voiced concern about Harris’s unstable positions on Israel and the Middle East.
“At this point I cannot [vote for Harris],” Schoen said. “I would call myself undecided, at this point. But I can’t vote for her, for reasons related to her changing position and also the Middle East as we have talked about before. I do not believe she is sufficiently committed to Israel and fighting antisemitism.”
Schoen has previously criticized the Biden administration’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war.
In April, Schoen noted that the administration was under immense pressure by the left wing of the Democratic Party to “take a strong stance against the Jewish State.” He argued that the anti-Israel drift of the Democratic Party is “dangerous” and overlooks the Jewish state’s “strategic importance.” He also lamented that US President Joe Biden adopted a more pointed and adversarial “tone” toward America’s closest Middle Eastern ally….
Schoen is referring to two things. First, when he was asked if Prime Minister Netanyahu was doing “enough” to make a ceasefire-hostage deal, Biden said “No.” And in May, the Biden administration put “a pause” on “1,800 2,000-pound bombs and 1,700 500-pound bombs that it feared would be used in Israel’s last major planned operation against a Hamas stronghold in the city of Rafah,” a move that was denounced by 100 lawmakers of both parties.
Harris has also expressed sympathy for anti-Israel protesters on US university campuses, saying that they are “showing exactly what the human emotion should be.”
Which of the protesters’ chants does Harris think “show exactly what the human emotion should be”? Is it “From the river to the sea/Palestine will be free,” which is a call for Israel to disappear, to be replaced by a twenty-third Arab state? Or is the chant accusing Israel of “genocide” what she thinks is the appropriate “human emotion”?
Do you think a Harris presidency would be good for the American alliance with Israel? Please reread what Doug Schoen has to say about her views on Israel. Then you’ll know the appropriate response: Not on your life.
Rick Gordon says
I appreciate his honest appraisal of Harris’ current as well as some of Biden and Obama’s views of the Middle East. In my belief, until the people of Iran are granted the opportunity and elect a government that serves their best interests, we will continue to see disruption in the area. An inconsistent approach to world affairs and an inability to understand who are our friends – and who are our enemies haunts the Democrat party.
Stive says
Eliminate khomeni and his inner circle frees iran in the easiest doable manner. Every thing done but this. It’s done to many leaders but oddly not these.
Sometimes I get the feeling all the leaders on all sides following a script given to them by the devil. Amongst them, a few might dissent on implementing exactly as Satan desires and then their lives are in jeopardy. The dissenters are not good but aren’t fully with the program in all aspects
somehistory says
The demon snake and his wild beast are leading the nations to Armageddon. Most of the nation’s leaders are going along, not resisting at all.
gravenimage says
Ayatollah Khomeini actually died in 1989–but Khamenei is almost as bad, and very much in the same mold.
James Lincoln says
gravenimage,
In practical terms, they are pretty much the same.
somehistory says
James, I can never separate the names unless I see them written side by side….and they wereare both ugly evil. When spoken by most people, they sound the same.
gravenimage says
True enough, James and Somehistory.
Stive says
Eliminate khomeni and his inner circle frees iran in the easiest doable manner. Every thing done but this. It’s done to many leaders but oddly not these.
Sometimes I get the feeling all the leaders on all sides following a script given to them by the devil. Amongst them, a few might dissent on implementing exactly as Satan desires and then their lives are in jeopardy. The dissenters are not good but aren’t fully with the program in every aspect.
somehistory says
the hyena has surrounded herself with mozlums…her ‘mozlum team.’ How many Jews did she hire and how many surround her as a ‘team of Jews’?
Corrupt liars will always side with other corrupt liars. Those who are all for the slaughter of unborn babies, have no concern for babies already born who were slaughtered, or might be in the future.
k harris is an ugly snake, inside and out.
Mike says
In terms of all-round ugliness, however, even K.Harris cannot match George Tarleton i.e. Rashida Tlaib.
somehistory says
for me, it’s whichever one I see at any given time. Both are evil ugly. and they are not alone.
Linda Wheeler says
Amen!!! AMEN!!! AMEN!!!
Wheeler
40 rounds says
Our current baseball mit faced dem installed nominee who is alcohol numbed and generally devoid of any intelligence is clearly a Jew hater like most refuse from third world countries, despite being married to a self loathing Jew.
Westman says
It seems obvious that Harris has few real ideas of her own. Like Chauncy of the movie, “Being There”, she has been caried by events and others to a responsibility far beyond her capacity. Interviewed without notes or teleprompter we hear bear forth with meaning-starved word salads. Now when given prompts she speaks the deep state line.
It appears that Harris has a prodigious memory and little logic. That can get you far in American society as long as others make the important decisions. It seems strange that while touting her Indian inheritance she made a career of prosecuting Blacks for drugs and now expects them to vote for her.
You can’t fool kids and dogs. The young men who are interviewed about the election see the duplicity and rootlessness of Harris. It was almost fun to watch Oprah squirm as Harris made everything about herself. O: “What is your plan for the economy?” K: “I was born into a middle class family…..” (of professionals)
somehistory says
I had a professor who was both a doctor of psychology and an FBI Special Agent. In describing the psychopath, he said to remember that in their minds, “It’s all about ME!”
Every time she speaks, “it’s all about *her.*” Her only plan is to have the power. She craves it.
James Lincoln says
somehistory,
She wants both power and position – both without responsibility to those that she is supposed to serve.
OLD GUY says
She serves only herself and those that put her in power. Kamala is the worst kind of leader she has no allegiance to any one and will throw everyone under the bus to hold power. She’s for sale to the highest bidder.
somehistory says
James,
I was thinking about Westman’s post and my mind began to play with ideas.
K.H. the local mechanic
Customer: I need new brakes. What will you charge me?
k.h. “so, I grew up in a middle-class neighborhood and all the neighbors took care of their lawns,” cackle cackle
k.h. local dermatologist
Patient: What will you charge me to take this mole off my face?
k.h. So, I grew up in a middle class neighborhood, and my mother worked hard, cackle cackle.
James Lincoln says
You made me chuckle, somehistory!
somehistory says
thanks, James. I’m glad to give a laugh now and then.
I can imagine what the customer and the patient would do in such a case and it wouldn’t be to give her any business.
Linda says
Reply to SOMEHISTORY
I and my fellows agree with you entirely.
Kamalah Harris is having money thrown at her, despite being a brainless woman, with no soul for the Jews. Shame on her. Nothing she says makes sense. PHEW!!! Linda
somehistory says
Thank you, Linda. You said a lot in a few words. All True.
James Lincoln says
Spot on post, Westman.
Walter Sieruk says
The editor of the Jerusalem Post is absolutely right when he wrote that if Kamala Harris would become the next US President that “Would be a disaster for Israel and for the Jewish people.”
For example, the supreme Ayatollah of Iran ,Khamenei as well as the other Muslim clerics as the ayatollahs and mullahs along with the Muslim members of the Iranian parliament n do naturally favor having Kamala Harris in the Office of the President of the United States. This is because she would continue the policy of appeasement of Joe Biden of giving those despots of Iran everything they demand.
For Kamala Harris ,along with her many of her comrades of the Red /Green alliance that she would fill her administration with would gladly grant that anti America and anti-Israel Islamic regime all provisions that those tyrants clamor for.
As the Jewish and Israel hating Islamic tyranny would then use the financial support given to it by Kamala Harris and use that money to obtain many deadly weapons to the it’s proxy jihad murder machine entities and Hamas, Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad so that that those jihad groups would launch in many murderous Islamic terrorist attacks against the peaceful citizens of the State of Israel.
Furthermore , that “mullah regime” of Iran would also use that money to send its jihadist operatives through the porous US /Mexican borders ,created by the Biden/Harris team , to engage in future 9/11 murderous jihad affronts across the US.
So, indeed, those hostile and vicious Islamic dictators of Iran will do everything that they are able to do to ensure the Kamala Harris will be the next President of the United States.
In addition., Kamala Harris, along with her comrades of the Red /Green alliance, are already friendly terms with that murderous jihad entity, Hamas.
Walter Sieruk says
Kamala Harris strongly favors a so called “two –state solution” which taking everything into account is really no “solution, “ at all.
Even that leftist US President t Franklin D. Roosevelt with all liberal socialist ideology still had more common sense and understanding than Kamas Harris ,with comrades of the Red/Green alliance, for Biden is still striving to obtain that folly of an idea of a “two state solution.” Which in reality is no solution but a recipe for disaster. The reason why this is so is because a “Palestine state” that would be, no doubt, controlled by wicked jihad-minded Muslims with all their Islamic intolerance would only be a set up for a catastrophe in the Middle East.
As President Roosevelt, had so very wisely declared, “No compromise can end that conflict. There never has been—there never can be—successful compromise between good and evil. Only total victory can reward the champions of tolerance, and decency, and freedom, and faith.”
Walter Sieruk says
Kamala Harris and her of favoring that terrible idea of what some call “the two state solution.” This subject was explained in a rather clear way in the newspaper entitled The Epoch Times April 3-9, 2024, A-14. Which informs its reader that ”Before October 7th 2023 there was a de facto three-state solution , given that Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza were all separate states ruled by their own governments, two of which were illegitimate without scheduled elections.
It was not Israel, but the people of Gaza and the West Bank who institutionalized the “river to the sea” agenda of destroying its neighbor.
Israel would have been content to live next to an autonomous Arab Gaza and West Bank that did not seek to destroy Israel in their own ‘one –state solution.’ “
Linda Wheeler says
AMEN!!! AMEN!!! AMEN!!!
Walter Sieruk says
Kamala Harris with her support for what she calls “Palestinian self- determination,” actually means that she supports the idea of what some people call a “two –state solution.” In reality that is no genuine solution, at all.
That terrible folly of Kamala Harris is revealed by his total lack of wisdom about the State of Israel two-state solution.” One the other hand maybe she, with her Red/Green alliance, she’s just evil.
Thus a “two state solution” is out of the question. .This is because a “two state solution” not really a “solution” but an Islamic ploy of deception , a smokescreen and hoax and a fraud.
For example those Hamas rocket attacks in to Israel from Gaza reveals that even the idea of some people of dividing Jerusalem as well as other parts of the State of Israel between the Jewish people of the Muslim/ Arabs is nothing but folly. To engage the madness of such “talks” is a hoax and a farce .This is because in the so called “negotiations” between the heads of the Jewish nation of Israel and the leaders of the “Palestinians” the Muslim /Arabs the “Palestinian” leaders will speak the truth only when in happens to fit their agenda. The rest of the time the will be speaking half-truths and outright lies. For their goal is to obtain all of the land of the State of Israel. Even in it takes much time and it means getting the land piece by piece. Therefore, those “peace talks” are a hoax.
For the “Palestinian” leaders are employing what is the Islamic doctrine of Taqiyya . Which is the Islamic dogma that lying and deception are good things to do as long as it’s done for the cause of the advancement of Islam. The insidious scheme is part of the stealth jihad .Otherwise known as “Islamic Gradualism.”
This sly and something subtle strategy of disingenuous speech, lying deception of achieving the goal of all the land of Israel a war ploy that will be a disaster if the heads of the State of Israel are foolish enough to agree to divide the land of Israel with Muslim /Arabs ,the “Palestinians.” For if such a “peace dialogue” results in a divided land, the outcome will literally be murder. For “Palestinian” leader will allow the jihadists use that land as a base to launch murderous rocket attacks in to Israel. As for example, Hamas of Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Such false hopes for peace which are based on the foundation of lies are nothing new when it comes to Israel. For example, the Bible in Psalm 55:20, 21. Reads “Such men do violence to those at peace with them and break their promised word; their speech is smoother the butter but their thoughts are of war.” [N.E.B.]
gravenimage says
Worried About Kamala’s Views on Israel? You Should Be
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Yes–deeply disturbing–*far worse* than Biden’s and that is saying a great deal.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I’m not worried about her views on Israel: I know that she’s virulently anti-Semitic. Don’t get duped by who she married: Emhoff’s kids are both anti-Israel, not merely Gentile. Her brother in law too is pro-Palestinian, as is her niece Meena Harris. All that should be enough to tell one a story
If she gets elected, we have even more basic existential problems to worry about than support for Israel, important though that is
drew webb says
Not on your life.