Summary

Elise Stefanik, President Trump’s nominee for U.S. ambassador to the UN, stated during her confirmation hearing that Israel has a “biblical right” to the occupied West Bank, aligning with far-right Israeli officials.

Stefanik sidestepped support for Palestinian self-determination, blaming their leadership for failures.

Her stance signals a shift from Biden-era opposition to Israeli settlements, with Trump lifting sanctions on Israeli settler groups and nominating pro-settlement figures like Mike Huckabee for key roles.

Stefanik also vowed to audit UN funding and block aid to Palestinian refugee agencies.

  • Bytemeister@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    Just imagine what would be happening right now if we had elected that horrible genocide supporting Kamala instead!

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    5 hours ago

    I wish I could live to see the day where citing the Bible in support of an argument gets you laughed out of the fucking room.

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    4 hours ago

    It’s okay. At least blue maga and genocide Joe have been punished. This is worth Palestine being crushed into the dirt.

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    8 hours ago

    Trump And the Gang…as a non north American, i knew my investment on a popcorn machine wouldn’t go to waste! Need so much popcorn for the next 5 years watching Trump’s shenanigans and the (north) American people doing nothing irl except commenting on social media about his BS and how things could have been better. WAKE UP MOFOS! This guy’s gonna destroy your country! This is no time to be a keyboard warrior!

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    11 hours ago

    Remember everyone, the “ceasefire” that Trump “negotiated” (wink wink) is in no way just a temporary distraction, he’s better for Gaza than Dems could ever have been.

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      7 hours ago

      trump didn’t negotiate the ceasefire, and if he did that would be illegal since he wasn’t president yet.
      (it’s illegal to negotiate on behalf of the US in a non-official capacity).

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      11 hours ago

      They haven’t even stopped killing. Most of the death at this point is from injury, disease, and starvation, and I’m sure they are still not letting any food come in. And they’ve still been shooting people. And they did an air strike on a refugee camp in the West Bank yesterday, too, which they had been leaving alone for the most part.

      Presumably, they’ll keep doing that until someone shoots at the IDF, at which point it will suddenly become a big deal that “Hamas broke the ceasefire” and they’ll resume unapologetically shooting people at scale. Starvation and disease, meanwhile, will be doing their gruesome work throughout, unabated.

      I don’t honestly know whether Netanyahu engineered the timing on purpose, to give an opportunity for craven propaganda outlets to make a big fanciful noise about what a genius Trump is because he fixed Palestine, unlike that loser Joe Biden. I could see it either way: It would cost him nothing, but on the other hand, why bother? I’m not sure he really cares what people say about Trump. Either way, he gets what he wants.

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    14 hours ago

    In that case, Spain has a divine right to all parts of the US west of the Tordesillas Meridian. The pope said so.

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    16 hours ago

    Then don’t be surprised about Muslims following the Quran to the letter

    • Surah Al-Hajj (22:39-40)

    “Permission [to fight] has been given to those who are being fought, because they were wronged. And indeed, Allah is competent to give them victory. [They are] those who have been evicted from their homes without right—only because they say, ‘Our Lord is Allah.’ …”

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    6 hours ago

    Both Israelis and Palestinians claim to have a “God given right” to that very same piece of sand.

    I suspect that’s a large part of why this conflict has been ongoing for longer than most of the combatants have been alive.