{"id":987381,"date":"2021-11-08T23:58:50","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T04:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=987381"},"modified":"2021-11-08T23:58:53","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T04:58:53","slug":"nikki-haley-at-rjc-biden-admin-cant-be-trusted-to-stop-iran-nuclear-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nikki-haley-at-rjc-biden-admin-cant-be-trusted-to-stop-iran-nuclear-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikki Haley at RJC: Biden Admin Can\u2019t Be Trusted to Stop Iran Nuclear Threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnikki-haley-at-rjc-biden-admin-cant-be-trusted-to-stop-iran-nuclear-threat%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=987381&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\"><span>Speaking at the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) annual leadership meeting in Las Vegas over the weekend, former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley discussed a variety of issues concerning Israel, the Palestinians, the U.N., and the Biden administration \u2014 which she argued could not be \u201ccounted on\u201d to stop the Iranian nuclear program she deemed a threat to Israel\u2019s existence. She also suggested the Jewish state reject waiting for Biden\u2019s approval to counter the Iranian threat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Pro-Israel groups:<\/b><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>Speaking at the conference, Haley said groups supporting Israel \u201cshouldn\u2019t have to thank people for telling the truth and fighting for the truth; it should be automatic.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Stating \u201cnot every Jewish group is the best when it comes to politics,\u201d she condemned the head of the far-left, George Soros-backed <\/span><i><span>J Street <\/span><\/i><span>for giving Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas \u201ca great big hug.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cSupposedly they\u2019re supposed to be a pro-Israel organization,\u201d she added. \u201cI will never understand that.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"12.356037151703\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Israel should not count on Biden to stop the Iran nuclear program.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian nuclear threat is existential for Israel. If Israel makes the grave decision that its security depends on removing that threat, it should not wait for an American green light that might never come.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nikki Haley (@NikkiHaley) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NikkiHaley\/status\/1457079732353253384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 6, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>She praised the pro-Israel lobby American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), a group she claimed to love and described as a \u201cgenuinely pro-Israel\u201d group that \u201cdoes a lot of great things.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIt\u2019s unthinkable that a Democratic member of Congress called AIPAC a hate group and that Democratic presidential candidates refused to speak at AIPAC,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s absolutely outrageous.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But the former South Carolina governor also reserved some criticism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThere\u2019s one thing I don\u2019t get about AIPAC,\u201d she said. \u201cWhy do they invite politicians to their conference who strongly support the Iran nuclear deal?\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cStop rewarding bad behavior,\u201d she advised. \u201cIt only gets you more bad behavior.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Describing bipartisanship as \u201cimportant\u201d and claiming the U.S.-Israel relationship \u201cshould be completely bipartisan,\u201d Haley argued it had its limits.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cIf you make bipartisanship the whole reason for existence, then you lose sight of the policies you\u2019re fighting for in the first place,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIf a politician supports the disastrous Iran deal, opposes moving the American Embassy to Jerusalem, and is embraced by antisemites who support the BDS [Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions] movement, then a pro-Israel group should have absolutely nothing to do with him or her,\u201d she added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>United Nations:<\/b><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>Stating she had \u201cspoke truth to power\u201d while serving as the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., Haley called it \u201cthe honor of a lifetime to represent America at the U.N. and defend the country I love so very much, even if it was a forum where America is often disrespected.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>However, Haley claimed, part of that disrespect was \u201cbrought upon ourselves.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Highlighting the yearly U.N. vote denouncing America \u201cfor the conditions in Cuba\u201d and the \u201cshameful\u201d abstention of the U.S. under the Obama administration on the U.N. vote denouncing America, Haley said, \u201cyou can\u2019t expect the rest of the world to respect you if you don\u2019t respect yourself.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>She also condemned the \u201cbreathtaking betrayal\u201d of the Obama administration when it allowed an \u201canti-Israel\u201d resolution to pass.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe resolution passed because the U.S. pushed it and told other countries we would not exercise our veto,\u201d she said. \u201cIt was a slap in the face to our brothers and sisters in Israel and a real blemish on the value of American friendship.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>She then called out the U.N. for a history of anti-Israel bias.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIn the history of the U.N., there have been over 600 resolutions condemning Israel. Not one had ever acknowledged, let alone condemned, [the U.S. designated terror group] Hamas.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16583366\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"35\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Hamas-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16583366\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Hamas-1.jpg\" alt=\"Palestinian demonstrators burn Israeli and American flags at a Hamas rally, 22 November, at Al-Najah University in Nablus. The demonstrators expressed their solidarity with a Palestinian woman, Itaf Elayan, who is on a hunger strike in an Israeli prison. (Photo by AWAD AWAD \/ AFP) (Photo by AWAD AWAD\/AFP via Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Palestinian demonstrators burn Israeli and American flags at a Hamas rally, 22 November, at Al-Najah University in Nablus. (Photo by AWAD AWAD\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>\u201cWe changed that, too,\u201d she added. \u201cFor the first time, we convinced a majority of nations to condemn Hamas for the terrorist group it is.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Calling dealing with the U.N. Human Rights Council \u201cone of the most frustrating things,\u201d Haley mocked its lack of condemnation of China and its relatively few condemnations of Iran or North Korea, all while condemning Israel dozens of times.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIn a recent ten-year period, the Human Rights Council has condemned China zero times; condemned Iran six times; condemned North Korea nine times; and it condemned Israel 68 times,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe Human Rights Council is a farce for many reasons,\u201d she added. \u201cIt\u2019s where some of the world\u2019s worst human rights violators go to protect themselves from criticism.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Claiming America \u201cmust always be the world leader on human rights,\u201d Haley praised the withdrawal of the U.S. from the Human Rights Council under the Trump administration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cOn the day we withdrew from the Human Rights Council, I called it a cesspool of political bias,\u201d she said. \u201cWe were right to withdraw and I will say it again: President Biden is badly wrong to return to it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Palestinians:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>On the issue of the Palestinians, Haley said, \u201cremember who you\u2019re dealing with\u201d while accusing the Biden team of wanting to return to \u201cthe business of giving millions of dollars to the Palestinians and promoting a two-state solution.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThere is no universe today under which the corrupt Palestinian Authority can run a state,\u201d she said. \u201cThere just isn\u2019t.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>She also described how the Palestinian leadership actually views the peace process.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe Palestinian leadership has never viewed the peace process as a way of achieving peace with Israel,\u201d she said. \u201cThey have always viewed it as a way to destroy Israel.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cHow else can you explain the fact that Israel has accepted two-state solutions multiple times only to be rejected by the Palestinians every time and followed by violence?\u201d she continued.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cEven the Palestinian Authority leaders praised Hamas and teach their children that Israel will eventually disappear,\u201d she added. \u201cThey are not a partner for peace.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>On the Palestinian terror group Hamas, Haley said they \u201conly want a one-state solution: a Palestinian state with no Israel.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Israel:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>Expressing her \u201cgenuine love for Israel and America\u2019s pro-Israel community,\u201d Haley referred to the Jewish state as \u201ca bright spot in a tough neighborhood.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIt\u2019s a great friend to the United States,\u201d she said. \u201cWe share so many values of human rights, democracy, and religious heritage.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8623859\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"33\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/israel-us-flags-road-sign-us-embasy-jerusalem-getty.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8623859\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/israel-us-flags-road-sign-us-embasy-jerusalem-getty.jpg\" alt=\"JERUSALEM, ISRAEL - MAY 8, 2018: A road sign indicating the direction of the US Embassy in Jerusalem. Sergey Orlov\/TASS (Photo by Sergey OrlovTASS via Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A road sign indicating the direction of the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem. (Photo by Sergey OrlovTASS via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>\u201cAnd then you have the U.N., which is dominated by countries that aren\u2019t free,\u201d she added. \u201cThey don\u2019t respect human rights; they don\u2019t share our values; and they bully and bash Israel every single chance they get.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>On America\u2019s decision under the Trump administration to move its embassy to Jerusalem, Haley said, \u201cWe righted a wrong and we told the world that not only is it our sovereign right to put our embassy wherever we want, but it was also time to recognize the truth: Jerusalem is and will always be the capital of Israel.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Praising former President Trump\u2019s record in the Middle East as \u201ctruly remarkable\u201d and \u201chistoric,\u201d Haley warned that \u201cnow with Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in the White House, we\u2019re in a much different place.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cOur pro-Israel friends in the Democratic Party \u2014 and thankfully there\u2019s still a few of them \u2014 they insist that Biden is not as bad as Bernie Sanders and the squad,\u201d she said.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI think that might be true, but that\u2019s like saying you\u2019d rather have a \u2018D\u2019 than an \u2018F\u2019,\u201d she added. \u201cOne grade is better than the other, but neither is one to write home about.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>She then deemed the Biden administration\u2019s approach to Iran \u201cdangerous,\u201d and its approach to the Palestinians \u201cterribly counterproductive.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>She also offered two \u201cfriendly observations\u201d for the new Israeli government to consider.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>On the Iranian nuclear threat, which she described as an \u201cexistential\u201d for Israel, Haley said, \u201cI wish it wasn\u2019t so, but you cannot count on the Biden administration to stop the Iranian nuclear program. You just can\u2019t.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cYou\u2019ve seen what it did to Afghanistan,\u201d she added. \u201cYou\u2019ve seen how Biden is falling all over himself to get back into the nuclear deal.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>She also said Israel \u201cshould not wait for an American green light\u201d to remove the Iranian threat.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cYes, Israel would be viciously criticized at the United Nations, in the European Councils, and in the worldwide media [if it did so], but so what?\u201d she asked.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIn matters of life and death, it is better to be strong and criticized than weak and ignored.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>She called on Israel to stand strong in the face of a hostile international arena:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"11\">\n<p><span>So when the so-called international community calls on Israel to make \u201cpainful concessions for peace,\u201d Israel must not be fooled. This same international community will not be there when the terrorist attacks come back. this same international community, joined by its supporters in Congress, will continue to call Israel an apartheid state.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>The real key to the Arab-Israel conflict, according to Haley, is a \u201cstrong Israel that defends itself and shows its neighbors that they have much more to gain from their friendship than from their hostility.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8479688\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"38\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Haley-U.N.-emergency-meeting-Syria-chemical-weapons-April-14-2018.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8479688\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Haley-U.N.-emergency-meeting-Syria-chemical-weapons-April-14-2018.jpg\" alt=\"United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley listens during a United Nations Security Council emergency meeting concerning the situation in Syria, at United Nations headquarters, April 14, 2018 in New York City. Yesterday the United States and European allies Britain and France launched airstrikes in Syria as punishment for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad&#039;s suspected role in last week&#039;s chemical weapons attacks that killed upwards of 40 people. (Photo by Drew Angerer\/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley listens during a United Nations Security Council emergency meeting concerning the situation in Syria, at United Nations headquarters, April 14, 2018, in New York City. (Photo by Drew Angerer\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>She claimed that peace would come to Israel and the broader region \u201cas long as Israel continues to show its strength and determination.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI have faith that peace will come to Israel because I do know this: You cannot destroy what God has blessed and God has blessed Israel,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>She also implored the crowd to remain steadfast through next year\u2019s midterm elections, \u201cwhere the stakes couldn\u2019t be higher,\u201d citing the work that remains:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"13\">\n<p><span>Those elections are about whether we stop socialism, defend our border, return to fiscal sanity, and end the liberal Indoctrination in our schools. And, yes, they are also about standing strong for our best ally in the Middle East, so I hope you will join me in fighting for victory in 2022.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>To her fellows at the U.N. \u201cwho may be watching,\u201d Haley warned, \u201cI\u2019ve got my eyes on you. don\u2019t make me show up because I will.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>She concluded by promising to always fight for what is right and support America and the Jewish state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cMy promise to you is this: I will always be the loud and proud ambassador in support of United States and Israel,\u201d she said, adding, \u201cAnd we\u2019ll continue to fight.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Haley, who had little foreign policy experience before heading to the U.N., won worldwide respect by standing up for U.S. interests \u2014 and won the hearts of pro-Israel Americans with her fervent defenses of the U.S.-Israel alliance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In September, she <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/clips\/2021\/09\/23\/nikki-haley-on-biden-u-n-speech-truly-embarrassed-at-how-the-world-saw-america\/\"><span>slammed<\/span><\/a><span> President Joe Biden\u2019s \u201cvery weak, pathetic\u201d speech to the United Nations General Assembly, saying she was \u201ctruly embarrassed at how the world saw America\u201d due to the lack of calling out China and the Taliban.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In August, she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/clips\/2021\/08\/17\/haley-biden-destroyed-everything-weve-done-the-last-20-years-in-afghanistan-and-humiliated-america\/\">criticized<\/a> the Biden administration for its handling of withdrawing U.S. troops from Afghanistan, saying it had \u201cdestroyed\u201d everything America has done in the last 20 years in Afghanistan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><i><em>Follow Joshua Klein on Twitter&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joshuaklein_\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@JoshuaKlein<\/a>.<\/em><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking at the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) annual leadership meeting in Las Vegas over the weekend, former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley discussed a variety of issues concerning Israel, the Palestinians, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":141,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-987381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/141"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}