Omission of foreign policy in US election debates 'concerning': American Jewish Committee leader

02-11-2020
Majeed Gly
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NEW YORK, United States — Americans will be heading to the polling stations on November 3 to vote for the next president of the United States.

Nearly a hundred million Americans have already voted through mail-in ballots and early in-person voting, and are awaiting the results that would determine the next four years of US politics, with Former Vice President Joe Biden against current President Donald Trump. 

"For me, as an American, it is very concerning that foreign policy and national security were largely missing from the Democratic primary debate, they were entirely missing from the first presidential debate, and then the second presidential debate it was given about 15 minutes," David Harris, the Chief Executive Officer of the American Jewish Committee (AJC) told Rudaw's Majeed Gly.

The AJC is a leading global Jewish advocacy organisation.

"Every president is going to face major foreign policy and national security challenges. Some are foreseeable, some are not, but they are inevitable, and therefore getting a better sense of how a president will deal with these issues...... I feel very sad that these have not been part of the general debates," he added.

"For the American Jewish Committee and for me personally, the Kurds feel like brothers and sisters. There is something, for me, that is very compelling in the Kurdish story," he said about the Kurds.

"The Kurds and the Jews have always had commonalities in the Middle East," he added.

 

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