[ April 23, 2024 ]
Riyad Mansour, the Palestinian Authority’s ambassador to the United Nations, complained that U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley was so pro-Israel she seemed more Israeli than the Jewish people themselves.
That’s actually a compliment, given the past eight years of Israel-bashing from the Barack Obama administration. But Mansour didn’t mean it that way.
He accused Haley of actually furthering a policy that sparked tensions in the Mideast.
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From World Israel News:
The Palestinian Authority’s ambassador to the UN said on Wednesday that the Trump administration was pro-Israel and that US Ambassador Nikki Haley “is becoming more Israeli than the Israelis themselves.”
Mansour cited Haley’s accusations against Arab and Islamic countries, saying this was “for the sake of promoting an unconditional defense of Israel” but “not in the interest of the United States, much more in the interest of Israel.”
He was referring to Haley’s speech to the UN Security Council Tuesday in which she accused Arab and Islamic nations of being generous with their words in support of the Palestinians but not with their wallets.
He also mentioned a failed US and Israeli effort Tuesday to amend a resolution on “the social and economic consequences of the Israeli occupation” to call for Hamas, which rules Gaza, to release two Israeli civilians and the bodies of two Israeli soldiers.
Mansour cited the Americans’ drastic cuts in funding for the UN agency for Palestinian refugees known as UNRWA. This year, the US cut some $300 million to UNRWA, leaving the agency in dire financial straits, and is now reviewing some $200 million in assistance for the Palestinians.
“UNRWA is an organization that perpetuates the Palestinian refugee problem. It also perpetuates the narrative of the right-of-return, as it were, in order to eliminate the state of Israel; therefore, UNRWA needs to pass from the world,” Netanyahu stated in January, after the US froze a $125 million grant to the agency.
“This is an agency that was established 70 years ago, only for Palestinian refugees, at a time when the UNHCR (the UN refugee agency) deals with global refugee problems. Of course this creates a situation in which there are great-grandchildren of refugees, who are not refugees but who are cared for by UNRWA, and another 70 years will pass and those great-grandchildren will have great-grandchildren and therefore, this absurdity needs to stop,” the Israeli leader said.
In a tweet at the time, US President Donald Trump expressed frustration over the lack of progress in his attempts to broker peace between Israel and the Palestinians, and he pointed the finger at the Palestinians. “We pay the Palestinians HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS a year and get no appreciation or respect,” he said. “But with the Palestinians no longer willing to talk peace, why should we make any of these massive future payments to them?”
The Trump administration’s long-awaited plan for Israeli-Palestinian peace is “dead upon arrival,” Mansour said on Tuesday.
Riyad Mansour told reporters that after Trump recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel on Dec. 6, the US “lost the qualification to be the only party to supervise the political process.”
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8 Comments
5 years ago
Yep definitely a compliment, Nikki Haley is an Indian-American and both Indians and Americans are very strong supporters of Israel. Great to see the US is no longer sucking up to these Islamo-fascists like they were under Obama but instead are exposing them for the evil people that they are.
5 years ago
Reply to
Rick Reynolds
I thoroughly agree with your succinctly stated comment. You are right on. My mom use to tell me that when anything is said, always first consider the source. Coming from a Palestinian leader, I would agree that what he is saying about this country is a very positive statement that Trump and Haley are dealing with the failure of the U.N. agencies in a most favorable way. Funding the leaders of a people (the Gazans and Palestinians) who have shown no interest in a peaceful solution to the problems existing in that area of the world, and instead are steadfastly determined to kill off the Jews and destroy the nation that is Israel, is the height of political stupidity. I am very pleased that Trump and Haley and Bolton and Pompeo and others in the present administration have seen that light and are finally acting like reasonable and right thinking people. Until these antagonists (the Gazans and the so-called Palestinians) recognize that their best interests will be served by accepting a peaceful solution that results in defensible borders for Israel, and living harmoniously with Israel, which would enable these people to move themselves from dependency and poverty to a healthier standard of living, I thoroughly support our cutting off funds, as the control of money is a real way available to us to make changes.
5 years ago
They are used to Left/Liberal RINO’s bowing down to them . Now Its Trump Era they are left shocked and befuddled. LOL !
Left/Liberal are also making ISIS / jihadis happy by making beheading fashionable https://tinyurl.com/y7k93bs9
Insane ?
5 years ago
Nikki for President….
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5 years ago
I love her Southern accent! By the way, I couldn’t tell at ALL that she was an Indian at first (and I’ve had Indian people for neighbors for years!) She looks almost purely white American!
5 years ago
Israel is GOD’s chosen people. And GOD said he would curse those who cursed them and bless those who blessed them as a Christian I say my blessing on the nation of Israel and on its people
5 years ago
“Nikki Haley ‘More Israeli Than the Israelis,’ Says Palestinian U.N. Ambassador”
Makes me so proud.
