Kamala Harris Accuses Biden of ‘Perceived Blank Check’ for Netanyahu in Hamas War
In her newly released book 107 Days, former Vice President Kamala Harris offers a blunt postmortem of her failed 2024 presidential campaign — and she puts much of the blame on President Joe Biden’s foreign policy, particularly his handling of the war in Gaza.
According to excerpts reported by Axios, Harris accuses Biden of giving Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu what she called a “perceived blank check” in the war against Hamas. She writes that Biden’s one-sided approach alienated key voter blocs and tarnished his moral credibility on the world stage. (RELATED: Kamala Harris Admits She ‘Pulled the Pin on a Hand Grenade’ With ‘The View’ Answer About Biden)
“I had pleaded with Joe, when he spoke publicly on this issue, to extend the same empathy he showed to the suffering of Ukrainians to the suffering of innocent Gazan civilians,” Harris wrote. “But he couldn’t do it: While he could passionately state, ‘I am a Zionist,’ his remarks about innocent Palestinians came off as inadequate and forced.”
Harris also claimed that Netanyahu clearly preferred Donald Trump’s return to the White House over either herself or Biden. “Netanyahu wanted Trump in the seat opposite him. Not Joe, not me,” she said.
Harris ultimately lost in a landslide to President Trump in November 2024, dropping both the Electoral College and the popular vote.
In the book, Harris maintains that Israel had a right to respond to the October 7 terror attacks, but criticizes the Israeli government’s tactics under Netanyahu’s leadership. “The ferocity of Netanyahu’s response, the number of innocent Palestinian women and children killed, and his failure to prioritize the lives of the hostages had weakened Israel’s moral position internationally,” she wrote, “and created angry dissent within Israel itself.”
The book’s release adds fuel to long-simmering questions about fractures within the Biden-Harris administration during the war in Gaza. Despite attempts to present a united front last year — including public statements from Harris’s office insisting there was “no daylight” between her and Biden — her book now reveals deep internal disagreements over the administration’s tone and strategy toward Israel’s war on Hamas.
107 Days hit shelves Tuesday, chronicling Harris’s short-lived run for the presidency and offering a behind-the-scenes look at what she describes as an uphill battle weighed down by decisions made far above her pay grade.