Wednesday, February 22, 2017

NIKKI HALEY: "UNITED STATES IS DETERMINED TO STAND UP TO THE U.N.'S ANTI ISRAEL BIAS"

NIKKI HALEY: "UNITED STATES IS DETERMINED TO STAND UP TO THE U.N.'S ANTI ISRAEL BIAS"

BY ROBERT SPENCER
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 
This is so very refreshing and welcome after eight years of Obama’s contempt for Israel. The UN is a tool of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), which has fueled its vicious anti-Israel bias. It is positively exhilarating to see the U.S. standing for sanity and justice.
In the teeth of this, the establishment media is still pushing the discredited claim that President Trump is anti-Semitic.

“Nikki Haley Denounces UN’s ‘Outrageously Biased’ Resolutions Against Israel,” by Sam Dorman, Washington Free Beacon, February 21, 2017:
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley ripped into the international body’s “anti-Israel bias” last week, specifically denouncing the U.N. Security Council for criticizing the Jewish state while ignoring security threats in the Middle East.
“It is the U.N.’s anti-Israel bias that is long overdue for change,” Haley said Thursday after her first Security Council meeting, which she described as “a bit strange.” The meeting focused on Israel, Haley said, rather than on issues like Iran funding terrorists and how to defeat the Islamic State.
Haley reaffirmed the United States’ support for the Jewish state and said Washington would not “turn a blind eye” to the U.N.’s “anti-Israel bias.”
“I’m here to emphasize the United States is determined to stand up to the U.N.’s anti-Israel bias,” Haley said before singling out Security Council resolutions focused on Israel as “outrageously biased.”
“The double standards are breathtaking,” Haley said. She then described how the Security Council blocked a statement condemning a terrorist attack in Israel during which terrorists shot and stabbed innocent people….