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Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris has yet to offer a unified foreign policy vision as the rival Trump-Vance campaign increasingly targets her record on the border, Afghanistan and other related issues.

“Kamala Harris and the DNC are turning a total blind eye to national security, a dangerous trend that shows their lack of real policy ideas,” Rep. Michael Waltz, R-Fla., told Fox News Digital. “We’ve heard Trump’s name mentioned over 150 times in their speeches, but we’ve hardly heard any mention of the national security threats facing America, and not a single mention of the Afghanistan withdrawal that took place three years ago this very week.”

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“The world is a more dangerous place under Kamala Harris: Iran is threatening to attack Israel, China is on the march, and ISIS is on the rise again,” Waltz said. “Vibes and buzzwords like “weird” won’t deter these threats or rebuild our military. They’re obsessed with slogans instead of offering solutions.”

“Contrast this with the RNC, where we dedicated two entire days to making America safe again and strong again,” Waltz added. “Biden and Harris have made this country less safe, and yet they offer no plan— and seem to have no interest—in protecting Americans.”

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The Democrats caused confusion this week with the release of a party platform — timed with the start of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) — that still referred to President Biden and his bid to seek a second term. Mayor Regina Romero of Tucson, Arizona, co-chair of the DNC platform committee, explained that the platform was crafted “prior to the president passing the torch in an act of love and patriotism.”

In a statement posted on the Democrats’ website, the party explains that the platform was approved on July 16 — five days ahead of Biden’s historic decision to step back and let the party stand another candidate to face Trump. The party argues that it offers “a vision for a progressive agenda that we can build on as a nation and as a Party as we head into the next four years.”

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Harris addressed her foreign policy agenda during the speech accepting the Democratic nomination on Thursday: In a speech light on policy, Harris pledged to pass the border security bill Republicans killed in the Senate earlier this year. 

Democratic presidential nominee and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris speaks on Day 4 of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., August 22, 2024.  (REUTERS/Kevin Wurm)

Harris also pledged to lead the way on space-based initiatives and artificial intelligence development, promised to stand up to Iran and Iran-backed terrorists and reiterated her support for Israel while stressing the importance of Palestinian self-determination. She took shots at Trump and his relationship with other world leaders such as North Korea’s Kim Jong Un and Vladimir Putin. She also made clear that as president she would “stand strong with Ukraine.”

“The record of the last three-plus years has been a disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, a green light for Russia to invade Ukraine, maximum deference to Iran, and unprecedented hostility toward Israel,” Richard Goldberg, senior adviser at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and former NSC official, told Fox News Digital. 

“Add in a wide open border for terrorists to cross and a war on American energy that gives our enemies an advantage, and she’s helped oversee one of the worst foreign policies in history.”

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KAMALA HARRIS SLAMMED FOR REFUSING TO SPEAK TO PRESS, NOT RELEASING POLICY POSITIONS

This image from video provided by South First Responders shows charred and damaged cars along a desert road after an attack by Hamas terrorists at the Tribe of Nova Trance music festival near Kibbutz Re’im in southern Israel on Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023.  (South First Responders via AP)

Republicans have repeatedly argued that Harris’ foreign policy plans are clear based on her record as vice president and tying Harris closely to Biden’s own policies. Her lack of a published platform that clearly outlines her plans for a first term has made it difficult for her to argue against that. 

Harris earlier this week told Fox News in a statement that “re-entering that deal is not our focus,” referring to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) “Iran nuclear deal” — a seeming break with the Biden administration’s major push to get such a plan enacted in its first two years, though that push has gone soft in the past year.

Harris did roll out a comprehensive, if criticized, economic plan ahead of the DNC in Chicago this week, and she is expected to continue revealing parts of her policy plan in a similar manner now that the convention has ended. 

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Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei addresses the media during the voting of Parliament Elections in Tehran, Iran, on May 10. (Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Harris in recent statements has reiterated her support for certain policies enacted under the Biden administration, such as how the administration handled its exit from Afghanistan. 

Republicans have decried the administration’s full drawdown from Afghanistan, which the Harris campaign has said the vice president “strongly supported” by asking “probing questions” during deliberations, although a former military official told The Washington Post he didn’t recall Harris “playing any role of significance.”

Positioning herself as a vice president who is closely involved in the administration’s key matters, Harris confirmed to CNN in 2021 that she was the “last person in the room” with Biden before his decision to withdraw U.S. troops and effectively end more than 20 years of war in Afghanistan. 

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An US Air Force aircraft takes off from the airport in Kabul on August 30, 2021. – Rockets were fired at Kabul’s airport on August 30 where US troops were racing to complete their withdrawal from Afghanistan and evacuate allies under the threat of Islamic State group attacks. (Photo by Aamir QURESHI / AFP) (Photo by AAMIR QURESHI/AFP via Getty Images) (Aamir Qureshi/AFP via Getty Images)

The Los Angeles Times in 2021 reported that Harris was “at least visually” front and center of Biden’s plans in Afghanistan, attending “most of his security briefings” and attending urgent intelligence sessions as the Taliban swept into power in the wake of America’s exit from the country. 

The Times argued that Harris walked a tightrope in trying to “erase daylight” between her and Biden on policies at the time, which would mean that ultimately “the execution of the withdrawal will also be added to Harris’ résumé.” 

Harris has also stated her support for a cease-fire deal between Israel and Gaza, reportedly telling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he needs to agree a deal and bring home hostages. 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives statements to the media inside The Kirya, which houses the Israeli Defense Ministry, after a meeting in Tel Aviv on Oct. 12, 2023. (Jacquelyn Martin/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

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“I’ve said it many times, but it bears repeating. Israel has a right to defend itself and how it does so matters,” Harris said following her meeting with Netanyahu the same week she announced her bid for the presidency in July. 

“It is time for this war to end and 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,” she said, according to Axios. 

“As I just told Prime Minister Netanyahu, it is time to get this deal done. Let’s get the deal done,” she said. “So we can get a cease-fire to end the war. Let’s bring the hostages home. And let’s provide much needed relief to the Palestinian people.” 

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, second left, looks at a map during his visit to Ukrainian 110th mechanised brigade in Avdiivka, the site of fierce battles with the Russian troops in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, on Dec. 29, 2023 (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

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The subject that has proven the most contentious and cumbersome for Harris remains her role in dealing with mass immigration on the southern border: Harris has stressed during her stump speeches that she “prosecuted” transnational gangs, drug cartels and human traffickers and “won,” while she claimed Trump “does not walk the walk.”

The Trump-Vance campaign targeted Harris for her work as the “border czar” and failing to make major impact on mass migration over the southern border and the significant fentanyl trade that still occurs in the country. 

The Harris campaign and surrogates have stressed that Harris never held the role of border czar and instead focused on working with countries south of the border to tackle the causes of that mass migration. 

Migrants walk along the highway through Suchiate, Chiapas state in southern Mexico, during their journey north toward the U.S. border on July 21. (AP Photo/Edgar H. Clemente)

The campaign claims that there are now fewer people crossing the border than before, and the figures released by Customs and Border Protection appear to corroborate: While the numbers of land border encounters peaked at around 300,000 by the end of 2023, the figure dropped to just over 100,000 in July, marking the lowest number since February 2021. 

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Harris also declared that she will “bring back the border security bill that Donald Trump killed” and sign it into law, referring to the bill that Senate Republicans blocked earlier this year. Republicans claimed the bill was “worse than doing nothing” while criticizing their counterparts for failing to pass a House-backed border bill addressing Republican priorities. 

Democrats have accused the Republicans of blocking the bill at Trump’s urging, with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., telling reporters that they did it so “he could exploit the issue on the campaign trail.” 

Fox News Digital’s Danielle Wallace contributed to this report. 

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Iran outmanoeuvred US President Donald Trump “like a violin” in negotiations, walking away with far better terms after sensing his desperation for a deal to end the war, former National Security Adviser John Bolton told Euronews.

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TEL AVIV, Israel: Reactions in Israel to the Memorandum of Understanding reached by President Donald Trump and Iran on Sunday have been a mix of wait-and-see-the details and outright criticism.

Iran’s Supreme National Security Council confirmed on Sunday that Tehran and Washington had finalized a memorandum of understanding ending the war after months of negotiations. In a statement, the council said all military operations across multiple fronts, including in Lebanon, would cease “immediately and permanently.”

Talks on a comprehensive final agreement will reportedly begin only after both sides have implemented their obligations under the framework and are expected to continue for up to 60 days.

On Monday night, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the nation, saying he had spent decades fighting Iran’s efforts to acquire a nuclear weapon. “I can define it as the mission of my life,” he said. “I stood by it until now, and I will stand by it in the future. With or without a deal, Iran will not have a nuclear weapon.”

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaking to reporters during a press conference on the U.S-Iran deal on June 15, 2026. (Israel Government Press Office)

He continued, “Not today and not tomorrow. As long as I am the prime minister of Israel, it will not happen.”

Responding to reporters’ questions, Netanyahu acknowledged that he was not familiar with the exact details of the memorandum of understanding reached between the Trump administration and the Iranian regime but lauded the joint U.S.-Israel operation against the regime.

Netanyahu said the campaigns had spared Israel from the threat of nuclear annihilation. “If we had not acted when we did… and with the force we demonstrated in a historic partnership with President Trump and the U.S. military, Iran would already possess atomic bombs,” Netanyahu said.

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Earlier on Monday, Defense Minister Israel Katz, held back from directly criticizing the deal but said that the IDF would not withdraw from southern Lebanon, warning that if Iran attacks Israel in response to the fighting against Hezbollah, “we will strike it with full force.”

He said, “The IDF will remain in the security zones in Lebanon, Syria, and Gaza, without any time limit, to protect the border and Israeli communities against jihadist elements.”

IDF troops fighting Hezbollah terrorists in southern Lebanon. (IDF Spokesman’s Unit.)

Katz described the security zones as “among the IDF’s greatest achievements” in the multi-front war since the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023 massacre, adding that Israel therefore opposes an IDF withdrawal from Lebanon despite all the pressures that will still come.

Katz said he and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had conveyed these positions to U.S. President Donald Trump and other senior American officials, including U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.

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“We will not compromise on Israel’s security interests and the protection of our citizens,” he concluded.

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President Donald Trump monitors U.S. military operations in Iran following an Israeli strike in Tehran on Feb. 28, 2026. (@WhiteHouse/X)

Yossi Kuperwasser, head of the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security and former chief of the research division in the Israel Defense Forces’ Military Intelligence Directorate, told Fox News Digital that the details of the agreement remain sketchy.

“There was a debate within the Iranian leadership over whether to accept the deal,” he said. “It appears that the information we are hearing is coming from those who opposed it. Maybe they are right, maybe they are wrong, but it raises major concerns in Israel. If this is the deal, it is a disaster. If one listens to President Trump, the deal is probably something different.”

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Kuperwasser defined a “good deal” as one in which Iran gives up all components of its nuclear program, grants access to enriched uranium and establishes a robust monitoring system capable of reaching anywhere at any time, including military facilities likely being used for atomic purposes. He added that such an agreement should also prohibit production of missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads.

A fireball rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike targeting an area in Beirut’s southern suburbs overnight on March 10 to 11, 2026. (Fadel itani / AFP via Getty Images)

“Lebanon’s fate is a matter to be discussed between Washington, Jerusalem, and Beirut,” Kuperwasser said. “Iran is not a party to those talks and should not be according to the Lebanese government. If Lebanon is to be part of a deal with Iran, it means Tehran has a say in Lebanese matters.”

Kuperwasser noted that Israel has lived under the shadow of Iran’s nuclear program since 1998, while noting that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is uniquely positioned to assess the issue given his decades of involvement. He said it remains unclear whether Netanyahu is satisfied with the outcome or what his final assessment will be.

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Former Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid, now leader of the opposition, referred Fox News Digital to his comments on X.

“The emerging agreement achieves none of Israel’s war goals. The regime survives, the missile program exists, and Iran can rebuild its nuclear program. This is a complete failure by Netanyahu, and in the process, he is turning us into a client state that takes orders about its national security,” he wrote.

A motorist rides past a banner featuring images of Iran’s slain Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his son Mojtaba Khamenei along a street in Tehran on April 15, 2026. (AFP/Getty Images)

On March 19, Prime Minister Netanyahu outlined three war objectives for the U.S.-Israel joint operation against Iran: “One, removing the nuclear threat. Second, removing the ballistic missile threat and removing both of these threats before they’re buried deep underground and become immune from aerial attack. And third, this means creating the conditions for the Iranian people to grasp their freedom, to control their destiny,” the premier stated at the time.

Dr Meir Javedanfar, Iran lecturer at Reichman University, told Fox News Digital that Israel’s most immediate concern regarding the deal is the clause dealing with Lebanon.

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“There is genuine concern that this could tie Israel’s hands,” he said. “An additional concern is that Hezbollah could use this clause to regroup and strengthen its armed forces and positions along the border with Israel.”

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Javedanfar said it is too early to assess whether the deal would leave Israel in a significantly stronger position than the 2015 Obama-era nuclear agreement, citing the fate of Iran’s stockpile of 60% enriched uranium and its atomic infrastructure.

“Will Iran be allowed to continue enriching uranium on its soil? If yes, at what percentage? And how will the international community oversee Iran’s nuclear program? What kind of inspection program will they have? How intrusive will they be?” he added.

The Israel Defense Forces said its troops located and destroyed a Hezbollah underground command center with infrastructure about 8 meters below ground in South Lebanon. (IDF Spokesman’s Unit)

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Israel’s controversial National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir on Monday insisted that the MOU does not bind the Jewish state. “Israel is not subject to the United States, and we are an independent and sovereign nation,” he tweeted, adding that Jerusalem’s duty is to its citizens, its soldiers and the Jewish people.”

He stated, “My position is clear: we are not partners to this agreement that does not ensure our security, and it does not bind us in any way,” he said, adding that while Israelis “love” the United States and “are grateful” to Trump, “the State of Israel is not a banana republic.”

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On Friday, Netanyahu’s office stated that “Even though Israel is not a party to the memorandum of understanding, the Prime Minister expressed his appreciation for President Trump’s commitment that the final agreement at the conclusion of negotiations will include the removal of enriched material, the dismantling of enrichment infrastructure, limits on missile production, and the cessation of Iran’s support for its terrorist proxies in the region.” 

President Donald Trump meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Mar-a-Lago on Dec. 29, 2025, to discuss Iran tensions and the Gaza peace plan. (Israel Government Press Office)

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Quoting the prime minister, the statement added that “As long as I am the Prime Minister of Israel – Iran will not have nuclear weapons. President Trump and I are in full agreement on this issue. For over 30 years, I have been at the forefront of the international struggle against Iran’s nuclear program. Were it not for this struggle, Iran would have long ago possessed atomic bombs to destroy Israel. Iran is working to destroy the Jewish state, and I am dedicating my life to preventing them from doing so. As long as I am the Prime Minister of Israel, this will not happen.”

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