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2017-07-06 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

US envoy Haley leads anti-Palestinian 'crusade': PLO

[Al Jazeera] A senior Palestinian official has blasted US President Donald Trump's UN envoy, accusing her of carrying out a "crusade" against the Palestinian people.

Hanan Ashrawi, a senior member of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), said on Wednesday that Nikki Haley was leading a "one-woman crusade... against Palestine and the Palestinian people individually and collectively".

"Through an obsessive and targeted campaign of intimidation and threats, Miss Haley's crusade does not miss an opportunity to put pressure on anyone that seeks to challenge Israeli impunity," she added.

Ashrawi said Haley was echoing remarks by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Israeli foreign ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon defended Haley's work.

"Small wonder Hanan Ashrawi is unhappy - @nikkihaley fights for a fair treatment of #Israel, exactly what the #Palestinians don't want...," he wrote on Twitter.

Palestinian officials have privately expressed increasing alarm at the Trump administration's pro-Israel stance as the US president seeks to restart peace negotiations.

And so they should be -- President Trump is changing everything.

However, until Wednesday they had publicly refrained from criticising senior US officials.

The Palestinians eagerly grasp the opportunity to lose another opportunity. Like scorpions, they have the virtue of consistency.

Haley visited Israel and the Palestinian territories in June.

Posted by Fred 2017-07-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [18 views ] Top
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#1 Hurray Nikki!

Posted by Skidmark 2017-07-06 00:03|| 2017-07-06 00:03|| Front Page Top

#2 Well, now that they know Uncle Sugar's stopping the checks...

Posted by Raj 2017-07-06 02:04|| 2017-07-06 02:04|| Front Page Top

#3 President Trump is changing everything.

And why did we elect him? Yep, sums it right up. We just have to wait and see what the results will be.

Posted by AlanC 2017-07-06 07:16|| 2017-07-06 07:16|| Front Page Top

#4 "Negotiations" got you lots of stuff. Israel has gotten very little of the peace* they were told they'd get if they compromised. Trump talks about one sided economic deals. He can spot bad deals and dealers. Get a hint.

*one that doesn't require lots a security personnel suppressing the earlier version of 'sudden jihad' syndrome.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-07-06 09:36|| 2017-07-06 09:36|| Front Page Top

#5 I'm ok with this.

Posted by DarthVader 2017-07-06 10:14|| 2017-07-06 10:14|| Front Page Top

#6 Trump's appointment of Haley has proved to be strong on several fronts. It proved that he's not the thin-skinned bully that so many accused him of being (he overlooked Haley's opposition to him during the primaries), and she's done a wonderful job thus far in voicing an America-first policy. Her vocal support of Israel has been refreshing.

Posted by Crusader 2017-07-06 11:12|| 2017-07-06 11:12|| Front Page Top

#7 I have no problems with this. The Crusades were, after all a defensive action against hundreds of years of Islamic aggression.

Posted by CrazyFool 2017-07-06 11:33|| 2017-07-06 11:33|| Front Page Top

#8 I always figured Ashrawi'd die from throat or lung cancer. She sounded like a 3-pack a day smoker back in the '90s. I bet Nikki will lose a lot of sleep over this .....right.

Posted by Frank G 2017-07-06 14:07|| 2017-07-06 14:07|| Front Page Top

#9 Haley is getting the foreign policy cred she didn't have. She was an effective governing executive for 2 terms in SC. She will be the GOP candidate after Trump, and possibly the first female POTUS

Posted by Injun Bucket8891 2017-07-06 19:37|| 2017-07-06 19:37|| Front Page Top

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