This shouldn’t be hard to grasp: incompetence really does matter in a President, as does trust.

Kamala Harris had a private discussion with Benjamin Netanyahu, a head of state. Diplomacy 101 dictates that when sensitive matters are discussed, neither party to such discussion reveals the details of what is said, nor does either party make statements after the meeting that undermine either the relationship between the two individuals, nor their respective nations, nor the interests and objectives of those nations.

This isn’t hard, nor should it be.

But for Kamala Harris, it is. This is a problem.

Having met with the Israel Prime Minister, Harris initially said that the U.S. has an “unwavering commitment” to Israel, its right to exist and its security. She called Hamas a “brutal terrorist organization.” Then she said,

“”What has happened in Gaza over the past nine months is devastating. The images of dead children and desperate, hungry people fleeing for safety sometimes displaced for the second, third, or fourth time. We cannot look away in the face of these tragedies. We cannot allow ourselves to become numb to the suffering. And I will not be silent…It is time for this war to end in a way where Israel is secure, all the hostages are released, the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza ends and the Palestinian people can exercise their right to freedom, dignity, and self-determination. And as I just told Prime Minister Netanyahu it is time to get this deal done. Let’s get the deal done. So we can get a ceasefire to end the war. Let’s bring the hostages home. And let’s provide much-needed relief to the Palestinian people.”

What a fool, and a dangerous one.

That language is about as helpful and nuanced as “Hey Hey, LBJ, How many kinds did you kill today?” It’s infantile anti-war babble. (Do I really have to say that Presidents have to do better?) All war is “devastating.” That statement is meaningless. She is appealing to emotion rather than hard realities: how girly of her…and how inept. “We cannot look away…we cannot become numb”…this is obscenely incompetent, and pure virtue-signalling. Oooh, tell us how you feel, Kamala! You won’t be silent? In international diplomacy, every word needs to be considered carefully or you shut the hell up. She is like a Pop Warner football player running onto the field in an NFL game.

“It is time for this war to end in a way where Israel is secure, all the hostages are released, the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza ends and the Palestinian people can exercise their right to freedom, dignity, and self-determination.” And for all children to have their own ponies, and let’s all sing “Imagine”! It’s time! Her addled and inept statement is the antithesis of “unwavering commitment.”

Israel will not be secure until there is no more Hamas. There will not be another ceasefire until Hamas surrenders or is destroyed. The “suffering of Palestinians” resulted from their own choice to let Hamas be their government, and suffering is what happens to people who start wars. The Palestinian people can exercise their right to freedom, dignity, and self-determination when they make a meaningful pledge to accept the existence of Israel, which they have never done and show no inclination to do.

Saying that “it is time” for something to happen that has overwhelming impediments to its occurring is grandstanding as well as magical thinking. An outburst like this not only shows Harris is unqualified to be President, it shows she is unqualified to teach nursery school.

Netanyahu was understandably upset that Harris promoted a hostage and ceasefire deal as a way to end the war; of course he was. If the war ends without Hamas being eliminated, there will be more terror attacks on Jewish civilians. Harris’s outburst was essentially a pro-Hamas position.

“When our enemies see the U.S. and Israel are aligned it increases the chances for a hostage deal and decreases the chances for a regional escalation,” the Israeli official said. “When there is such daylight it pushes the deal further away and brings a regional escalation closer. We hope that Harris’ public criticism of Israel won’t give Hamas the impression that there is daylight between the U.S. and Israel and as a result make it harder to get a deal.”

Sure it will. In addition, the Israeli officials said that Harris’s characterization of her meeting with Netanyahu was false. He now knows that he can’t trust her, but then nobody should trust her, certainly not in foreign affairs, where she has no experience and, as this episode proves, no common sense, discretion or judgment.