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| February 11, 2017
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Palestinians outraged after US Ambassador to the UN blocks envoy to Libya

 

Is a new era beginning for Israel at the United Nations? –
PLO Executive Committee Member Hanan Ashrawi outraged at ‘unbridled bias against the Palestinian people’ after appointment of former Palestinian PM as UN envoy to Libya gets blocked, saying, ‘It constitutes a blanket license for the exclusion of Palestinians everywhere.’

By Elior Levy

 

Palestinian activist and Palestinian Liberation Organization Executive Committee Member Hanan Ashrawi denounced the decision by US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley to block the appointment of former Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad to lead the United Nations political mission in Libya. Ashrawi issued a statement on Saturday, following the US’s decision to block Fayyad’s appointment. Continue Reading »

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| January 18, 2017
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Trump’s UN nominee to rebuke world body over built-in anti-Israel bias

 

Gov. Nikki Haley is planning to admonish the UN during her Senate confirmation, for too often being at odds with American national interests and its ‘consistent’ & ‘outrageous…bias against our close ally Israel.’
– Haley asked, “Are we getting what we pay for?”

By Reuters

 

US President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to be US ambassador to the United Nations will blast the world body over its treatment of Israel at her Senate confirmation hearing, according to prepared testimony seen by Reuters on Tuesday.

Then S. Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley joined U.S. military service members for the launch of Operation Palmetto Employment – Photo: Wikimedia Commons/US Air Force

“Nowhere has the UN’s failure been more consistent and more outrageous than in its bias against our close ally Israel,” Republican South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley said in the opening remarks for her appearance on Wednesday before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Continue Reading »

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| December 29, 2016
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South Carolina Governor, Nikki Haley will be the next US envoy to United Nations

 

Although Nikki Haley and her new boss Donald Trump have spared on a host of issues, she appears to be in line on how the Jewish State should be treated at the United Nations.

By MICHAEL WILNER

 

NEW YORK – When US President Barack Obama first tapped Samantha Power as ambassador to the UN in 2013, Israeli officials and media figures treated her record – militantly opposed to Western voyeurism in Syria and publicly critical of Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians – as an indication of the president’s direction on the Middle East entering his second term.

Judging South Carolina Governor, Nikki Haley, her likely successor, based on similar metrics, Israelis now expect a shift in its favor at the UN and against a growing movement to boycott, divest from and sanction the Jewish state given renewed energy last week after the Security Council voted to condemn Israel’s settlement activity as an illegal enterprise. Continue Reading »

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| November 26, 2016
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Jerusalem Thrilled by Trump’s Appointment of Nikki Haley as UN Envoy

 

President-elect Donald Trump’s pick as US ambassador to the UN will be celebrated in Israel, and denounced in Iran.

By Israel Today Staff

 

Israel was among the first, and was certainly the most exuberant of UN member states to welcome US President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for ambassador to the world body.

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South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley was selected for the position on Wednesday, and Israel Ambassador to the UN immediately hailed the decision.

Haley is a “longstanding and true friend of Israel,” wrote Danon in a statement that went on to note the governor’s “outspoken [fight] against the BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) movement in her state and throughout the US.” Continue Reading »

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