TEHRAN - Donald Trump has claimed that Kamala Harris, the U.S. vice president and the Democratic candidate for the upcoming presidential elections, “hates” Israel and is responsible for the Hamas attack on southern Israel on October 7 last year.

Trump leveled the accusations in a flurry of posts on his Truth Social platform after Harris insisted on her support for Israel during a keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention on Thursday.

“SHE HATES ISRAEL – Wouldn’t even show up to Congress for Netanyahu’s session!” Trump wrote in one post.

In another post, he claimed, “She caused the Attack of October 7th.”

While campaigning for the 2024 presidential race, Trump has aggressively sought to portray himself as the pro-Israel candidate, claiming he is “the best president in history of Israel” and that any Jew who votes Democratic “hates their religion”.

It is unquestionable that the United States, whether under Democrats or Republicans, has been blindly supporting Israel since its establishment in 1948. However, certain presidents and Congress persons, no matter Democrat or Republican, have been showing more subservience to Israel than others.

Current Democratic President Joe Biden has boasted about being a “Zionist” and famously said, “If there were not an Israel, we would have to invent one to make sure our interests were preserved.”

Renewing his commitment to Zionism, in a taped interview in mid-July, Biden reiterated, “You don’t have to be a Jew to be a Zionist.”   

Biden’s support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza has been so strong since the start of the October 7 attack that he has got the title of “genocide Joe”.

Harris’ loyalty to Israel is also unquestionable. In her convention speech, she offered a full-throated defense of Israel, echoing the language of Biden.

"Let me be clear, I will always stand up for Israel’s right to defend itself, and I will always ensure Israel has the ability to defend itself,” Harris said.

Of course, contrary to what Harris said, Israel is not defending itself. Rather it is committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in the coastal enclave.

Most probably, Trump is misusing this part of Harris’s speech in which she said, "What has happened in Gaza over the past 10 months is devastating…. (and) the scale of suffering is heartbreaking."

To sit in the White House again, Trump resorts to nonsensical and misleading remarks. His new remarks are similar to the ones he made in March when he said the Oct. 7 attack “would have never happened if I was president” and also in early April when he suggested Israel needs to “finish what they started” and “get it over with fast”.

Trump seeks two purposes: to encourage war criminals in Israel to commit more and more crimes in the Gaza Strip and to win the support of AIPAC, which exercises great influence in the United States, in the runup to the November polls.

To achieve his goal, he is adding fuel to the fire to kill a possible chance for a ceasefire in the Gaza war and mislead public opinion in the United States. 

Trump, president from January 2017 to January 2021, is notoriously famous for giving misleading information and making false claims. In a news story in January 2021, the Washington Post reported that Trump had made 30,573 false or misleading claims as president. It said nearly half came in his final year when he was seeking reelection.

Again, he has stepped up false and misleading remarks by attributing the October 7 attack to Biden and Harris. Trump is not stupid not to understand that the attack was the result of decades-long occupation, apartheid, suppression, injustice, siege, etc.

Giving wrong addresses will not fool the people except those who have closed their eyes to the realities.  And a failure to address the Palestine issue the occurrence of such attacks is not far from mind in the future. Small children who are feeling and seeing the sufferings of their families will turn into time bombs in the future if their wounded hearts are not healed.