Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee for US President, has chosen far-left Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her vice-presidential running mate. This decision has Israel supporters curious about what Walz thinks about the Jewish State and the Middle East in general. They are looking for information to understand his views better.
Reviewing Walz’s time in the US Congress and as a governor he appears to generally support Israel. He has made statements backing Israel’s right to protect itself and the importance of the Jewish State. However, some people are surprised that he has also received praise from Democrat politicians who strongly oppose Israel and has criticized the Israeli military’s actions against Hamas terrorists in Gaza.
While serving in Congress from 2007 to 2019, Walz repeatedly showed his support for Israel. As a lawmaker, he voted to condemn a 2017 United Nations resolution that declared West Bank settlements illegal.
In 2010, Walz attended a conference for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), a well-known pro-Israel lobbying group in the US. There, he called Israel "our truest and closest ally in the region [the Middle East]," and praised the country for its commitment to personal freedoms and liberties, even though it is in a tough neighborhood.
Walz also spoke out against the anti-Israel protests that erupted on college campuses after the terrorist group Hamas killed 1,200 people in southern Israel on October 7, and he stood up for Jewish college students and suggested that those protesting could be trying to intimidate others.
“When Jewish students say they feel unsafe, we need to listen and believe them, and I do believe them,” Walz said on PBS. “It's important to have a place where people can express their political opinions. However, intimidation is a different matter.”
Walz also ordered all state flags in Minnesota to be flown at half-mast to honor the victims of the October 7 terrorist attacks by Hamas. But recently had the state flag redesigned to look quite similar to the Somali flag in order to appease the alligator known as Islam.
In June, he strongly supported the importance of Israel existing, saying the Jewish people having their own country. He also mentioned that not recognizing Israel takes away their right to decide their own future and is antisemitic.
Despite this, Walz doesn’t support everything Israel does. He believes that some Israeli policies make it hard to have lasting peace in the Middle East. He has also spoken out against Israel's military actions against Hamas in Gaza.
When Walz visited the Middle East in 2009, he criticized Israeli settlements in the West Bank, saying they make the conflict between Jews and Palestinians worse. Maybe he was afraid if he stood behind his previous pro-Israel sentiments, he might have been killed, like he seemed to believe when his unit was ready to be deployed to Iraq.
In March, the governor of Minnesota asked for a permanent "working ceasefire" between Israel and Hamas. He said this was important so that humanitarian aid could reach people in Gaza. And of course, this would give Hamas time to rearm, resupply and re-terrorize the, you know, Joooze!
That same month, in an interview with Minnesota Public Radio, Governor Walz showed he was worried about the number of civilians getting hurt in Gaza, not the number of Jews being killed in Israel by rockets and missiles being fired at civilians.
He said, "You can think two things at the same time: that Israel has the right to defend itself and that the terrible events of October 7 are not okay. But the suffering of Palestinian civilians must stop."
Of course it's Hamas who's directly responsible for the suffering of Palestinian civilians, (not counting the Palestinian civilians who came across into Israel on October 7th, stole from the homes of the Jews that Hamas had slaughtered, and even helped in the slaughter in many instances.
Israel works harder than any army on Earth to avoid hurting civilians and the numbers prove this. They warn people prior to attack that they must leave the area, sending leaflets, text messages and other ways. It's Hamas that refuses to allow civilians to leave because they like the propaganda of dead civilians.
One problem for Israel is that Hamas uses a strategy where their fighters hide among civilians in Gaza. They even use places like hospitals, schools, and mosques to run their operations and launch attacks. And still, the IDF has the lowest civilian-to-combatant death ratio.
Some anti-Zionists/anti-Semites are happy that Walz was chosen. He has been friendly toward people who protest against Israel. For example, when some voters in Minnesota voted “uncommitted” to show they didn’t like President Biden's support for Israel, Walz said these voters were "civically engaged."
“This situation is a humanitarian crisis, and these people have every right to be heard,” Walz said at the time, talking about Gaza and the terrorists. "They are asking for a change; they want more pressure to be put on."
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