UN Ambassador Haley Tears Into United Nations for “Strange” Anti-Israel Criticism


President Trump’s newly-appointed ambassador to the United Nations, former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley, got to see the organization in action for the first time this week and was taken aback by what she saw. Although she attended a meeting meant to discuss the numerous problems plaguing the Middle East, the members opted to ignore ISIS, Syria, and other issues in favor of dumping on Israel, something that the ambassador could only describe as “strange”:

“Last December, the Obama administration fired a parting shot at Israel and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by departing from longstanding U.S. policy of vetoing anti-Israel resolutions and instead abstained from voting on a Security Council resolution (UN Res 2334) calling for a halt to Israeli construction in the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem.

Former U.S. ambassador to the UN Samantha Power cast the abstaining vote on behalf of the Obama administration. An article in Foreign Policy describes Power’s final act of defiance against Trump as her refusal to take Haley’s phone call prior to the December vote. “Power’s advisors suspected Haley would try to persuade Power to veto the resolution, and she did not take the call,” Foreign Policy wrote.

“We will never repeat the terrible mistake of Resolution 2334 and allow one-sided security council resolutions to condemn Israel,” Haley said. “Instead, we will push for action on the real threats we face in the Middle East.”

In January, a group of Republican and Democratic senators signed onto bipartisan legislation that rejects UN Res 2334 and calls for it to be either “repealed or fundamentally altered so that it is no longer one-sided.”

Source: Breitbart



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