Vice President Kamala Harris has jumped into one of the world’s bitterest conflicts, so better check your stocks of tinned goods, potable water, and ammunition. On March 4, the nation’s schoolmarm demanded an “immediate ceasefire” between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza sandpit. Playing favorites, Principal Harris blamed a “humanitarian catastrophe” solely upon Israel, which is fighting a war of defense against Islamists who wish to destroy it. “The Israeli government must do more to significantly increase the flow of aid. No excuses,” she said, as if downgrading little Bibi Netanyahu for late homework and a bad attitude.

The vice president has security clearance from the world’s most extensive intelligence-gathering operation. If she forgets her password, she can always read a newspaper. She knows perfectly well that truckloads of aid are backed up on the Israeli and Egyptian sides of Gaza’s borders. She knows that Hamas is slowing the aid’s delivery, just as Hamas is commandeering the aid convoys that do get through. She knows why Hamas is doing this, too: to stave off Israel’s assault on Rafah, the last Hamas stronghold in the Gaza Strip. When Harris says, “The conditions are inhumane, and our common humanity compels us to act,” she is doing Hamas’s work. She knows it, and we know why she is doing it.