The Biden administration is doing every possible thing to save Hamas by depriving Israel of arms, threatening it with political and economic consequences, and going after Netanyahu personally to stop a Rafah operation.

But there’s no way to finish off Hamas, which has the bulk of its brigades in Rafah in occupied Islamist territory in Gaza, without going in.

Kamala Harris, who has been the loudest high-profile voice in the administration against Israel, is stepping up the threats.

“I have studied the maps. There’s nowhere for those folks to go. We’re looking at about a million-and-a-half people in Rafah who are there because they were told to go there, most of them,” she added.

When asked if there could be consequences if Israel presses ahead with plans to invade Hamas’s last remaining stronghold, Harris said: “We’re going to take it one step at a time, but we’ve been very clear in terms of our perspective on whether or not that should happen.”

When pressed further on the matter, she added: “I am ruling out nothing.”

Nothing. It’s also a good description of what Kamala amounts to.

Kamala has “studied the maps”, which is to say that she knows nothing about the area or about Israel, but got a briefing about it.

We’re dealing with the big brain responsible for, “Russia is a bigger country. Russia is a powerful country. Russia decided to invade a smaller country called Ukraine. So, basically, that’s wrong.”