Kamala Harris takes charge: VP pushes Benjamin Netanyahu to 'get the deal done' to end the war... and has a message for Americans 'yearning' for a ceasefire

Vice President Kamala Harris told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Thursday that it was clip to get nan ceasefire woody done successful what she called a 'frank and constructive' meeting. 

Harris made uncommon remarks aft a gathering pinch a world leader, arsenic she's stepped up her domiciled successful nan White House and nan run way this week arsenic nan Democrats' apt statesmanlike nominee. 

President Joe Biden besides met pinch Netanyahu Thursday - and allowed property successful astatine nan apical of nan gathering - but made nary nationalist remarks successful its aftermath, alternatively allowing his VP to person nan past word. 

'I conscionable told Prime Minister Netanyahu, it was clip to get this woody done,' she said. 'So to everyone who has been calling for a ceasefire, and to everyone who yearns for peace. I spot you and I perceive you: Let's get this woody done.' 

The vice president started her connection by talking astir really she had been a backer of Israel since her younker and past segued into nan 'dire humanitarian situation' successful Gaza.

'From when I was a young girl, collecting costs to works trees for Israel, to my clip successful nan United States Senate and now astatine nan White House, I've had an unwavering committedness to nan beingness of nan State of Israel, to its security, and to nan group of Israel,' Harris said.  

'I've said it galore times, but it bears repeating: Israel has a correct to take sides itself,' she continued. 'And really it does truthful matters.' 

She said she expressed to Netanyahu 'my superior interest astir nan standard of quality suffering and Gaza including nan decease of acold excessively galore guiltless civilians.'

'And I made clear my superior interest astir nan dire humanitarian business there, pinch complete 2 cardinal group facing precocious levels of nutrient insecurity and half a cardinal group facing catastrophic levels of acute nutrient insecurity,' Harris continued.

'What has happened successful Gaza complete nan past 9 months is devastating,' nan vice president noted. 

As nan apt Democratic nominee, Harris has to return into relationship nan thorny authorities of nan Gaza war pinch members of her party, arsenic nan progressive near has expressed outrage pinch really Palestinian civilians person been treated by IDF forces.

Palestinian wellness authorities person estimated astir 39,000 people, mostly civilians, person died since nan warfare started successful nan aftermath of Hamas' sadistic panic onslaught connected Israel connected October 7.

Hamas militants killed astir 1,197 Israelis, mostly civilians, successful that assault. 

During Netanyahu's reside earlier Congress Wednesday, Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib held up a motion that publication 'war criminal' connected 1 broadside and 'guilty of genocide' connected nan other. 

The White House has pushed backmost connected position for illustration 'war criminal' and 'genocide.'   

'The images of dormant children and hopeless quiet group fleeing for safety, sometimes displaced for nan second, 3rd aliases 4th time. We cannot look distant successful nan look of these tragedies,' Harris told reporters Thursday. 

'We cannot let ourselves to go numb to nan suffering and I will not beryllium silent,' she said.

She past outlined what's connected nan array for location to beryllium a ceasefire and for nan Israelis to get their hostages back. 

Before concluding her little remarks, she asked Americans to position nan warfare successful shades of gray. 

'It is important for nan American group to retrieve nan warfare successful Gaza is not a binary issue,' she stated. 'However, too often nan speech is binary erstwhile nan reality is thing but.'

'So I asked my chap Americans to thief promote efforts to admit nan complexity, nan nuance, and nan history of nan region,' she continued. 'Let america each condemn coercion and violence. Let america each do what we tin to forestall nan suffering of guiltless civilians and fto america condemn anti-semitism, Islamophobia and dislike of immoderate kind.'

It's excessively early to show if Harris' reliable tone, but quest for nuance, will beryllium capable to triumph backmost complete nan younger voters Biden was bleeding owed to his support for Israel.  

The 'uncommitted' activity saw Biden drained of astir 101,000 imaginable votes successful nan cardinal plaything authorities of Michigan, arsenic Democrats in nan superior made that prime to definitive their displeasure pinch nan president's overseas argumentation stance connected Gaza. 

Prior to her caller domiciled arsenic Democratic statesmanlike candidate, Harris had already been much nuanced than Biden erstwhile discussing nan war. 

In March, she called for a ceasefire woody to extremity nan 'immense suffering' of nan Palestinians and was captious of Israel for insufficiently getting assistance into Gaza. 

This week she kept an arena pinch the historically achromatic Zeta Phi Beta sorority successful Indiana connected her schedule, alternatively of being successful Washington for Netanyahu's legislature address.  

She did, however, unreserved backmost from Houston - wherever she had addressed nan American Federation of Teachers Thursday greeting - for her day meet-and-greet pinch nan Israeli premier minister.