Nikki Haley Calls Apartheid Israel ‘the one true democracy in the Middle East’
By Richard Edmondson | Fig Trees and Vineyards | February 21, 2017
Out of all of Trump’s appointees, Nikkie Haley is probably one of the worst. Formerly a governor of South Carolina, Haley is the current US ambassador to the United Nations. That’s her in the video above giving a presentation at the UN last Thursday.
I’m not sure how much Haley knows about international law. According to Wikipedia, she graduated from Clemson University with a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting. How she ended up as UN ambassador, after criticizing Trump in the general election, is unclear. *
At any rate, Haley seems fully unaware that Israeli settlements are illegal under international law. Nor does she seem to comprehend why other UN-member states might press for resolutions seeking to call Israel to account, both for its settlements as well as its 50-year occupation of the West Bank–land universally recognized as necessary for a Palestinian state. So perhaps she is simply uninformed and does not understand the nature of Israel’s occupation or its devastating impact upon the lives of those forced to live under it. Or at least that’s one possibility.
The other possibility, of course, is that Haley does understand these things… and that she simply believes Israel is exceptional and should not have to follow the same laws and international standards that apply to other states. If so, apparently in Israel are those who would agree with her. Less than a week after her talk at the UN–in which she accused the body of a “prejudiced approach to Israeli-Palestinian issues”–an Israeli military court handed down an 18-month sentence to an Israeli soldier who carried out an execution-style slaying of a wounded Palestinian in March of last year. There was no doubt the soldier was the one who pulled the trigger. The shooting was captured live on video. The sentence of 18 months he received for killing a Palestinian is lighter than what Palestinian children are often given for throwing stones.
* Incredibly, Haley also voiced criticism of Trump–over his stance on Russia–during her congressional confirmation hearings back in January. At that time she accused Russia of “war crimes,” and said, “They (the Russians) have done some terrible atrocities.”
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In retrospect it can be seen that the 1967 war, the Six Days War, was the turning point in the relationship between the Zionist state of Israel and the Jews of the world (the majority of Jews who prefer to live not in Israel but as citizens of many other nations). Until the 1967 war, and with the exception of a minority of who were politically active, most non-Israeli Jews did not have – how can I put it? – a great empathy with Zionism’s child. Israel was there and, in the sub-consciousness, a refuge of last resort; but the Jewish nationalism it represented had not generated the overtly enthusiastic support of the Jews of the world. The Jews of Israel were in their chosen place and the Jews of the world were in their chosen places. There was not, so to speak, a great feeling of togetherness. At a point David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s founding father and first prime minister, was so disillusioned by the indifference of world Jewry that he went public with his criticism – not enough Jews were coming to live in Israel.
So how and why did the 1967 war transform the relationship between the Jews of the world and Israel? … continue
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We all know what democracy means in the minds of fascists: ruling by and through Presidential decrees, secret demo’s that ruins people’s existence, appointing traitors to positions of security, and supporting regimes that are denounced by all but the fellow fascists!
Hitler-Germany was denounced by the whole world except by the fellow fascists Spain and Italy!
So there’s little new to the 2017 fascists in the White House and its representatives!
The fascist clique in what we know as Israel is denounced by the world, except by the fascists in the White House, so what’s new?
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At every utterance from this bitch’s mouth, all I could muster was “My God”….
Thanks for this post passing on the searing observations and analysis of Richard Edmondson. Justice for the Palestinians is a more distant objective than ever.
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“The sentence of 18 months he received for killing a Palestinian is lighter than what Palestinian children are often given for throwing stones”.
The sentence he received will probably be served like Lt Calley received for the slaughter of Vietnamese civilians during the Vietnam War. Confined to base but able to walk free wherever he wanted to. He’s probably considered a Hero by the Israeli hierarchy…….
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