Nikki Haley walks out of U.N. Security Council meeting as Palestinian envoy begins to speak

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Nikki Haley walks out of U.N. Security Council meeting as Palestinian envoy begins to speak
Israeli forces killed 62 Palestinians, and Nikki Haley won't even sit through a U.N. meeting.
Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani
May 15, 2018, 3:15 pm

U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley walked out of a Security Council meeting on Tuesday when the Palestinian envoy began to speak, just hours after she praised Israel for acting with “restraint” in handling the protests in Gaza.

The Security Council was holding an emergency meeting to discuss the violence in Gaza. Israeli forces killed at least 62 Palestinians protesting along the border fence on Monday, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza. That number included several children, one of whom was just 8 months old. More than 3,100 others were wounded.

Haley told the Security Council that Hamas, with the help of Iran, was to blame for the violence and pointed to Molotov cocktails being flown into Israel via kites.

“I ask my colleagues here in the Security Council: who among us would accept this type of activity on your border?” she said. “No one would. No country in this chamber would act with more restraint than Israel has.”

Haley did not mention the Israeli soldiers and snipers firing at the Palestinian protesters or the death toll from Monday. Less than two later, when Permanent Observer of Palestine to the United Nations Riyad Mansour began to speak, she walked out of the meeting.

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[Uncle Joe]

1. Probably on instructions from Trump just as

Pence was ordered to leave the football game if the players knelt and they did.


Thanks for the thread babylonsister

[Arkansas Granny]

9. No doubt it was staged.

[SHRED]

2. She is heartless

[Cha]

3. Well isn't nikki hot shit.

No mention of those slaughtered.

[gademocrat7]

4. Disgusting unqualified hack.

Haley is just another lackey in the chump cabal.

[TomSlick]

6. No, it's worse than that.

Amb. Haley is qualified and effective. She knows that she is advancing evil.

[D_Master81]

5. This is for show to the base

Guarenteed this was planned to appeal to his base, screw you know, the future of the middle east.

[SHRED]

8. One big problem

She's supposed to represent the entire USA.

[D_Master81]

15. So is the POTUS

but he has done absolutely nothing to ever reach out to anyone outside of his deplorable base

[pwb]

7. What an ass!

She stinks at her job. We don't pay you to stick your head in the sand.

[tritsofme]

10. Unless he planned to denounce Hamas and their incitement and instigation of violence

I see very little reason to attend such a propaganda session.

[walkingman]

11. Haley sucks. She is nothing but a Trump stoolie.

[Ccarmona]

12. This Stunt Reeks of John Bolton.

His contempt for the U.N. is legendary

[RhodeIslandOne]

13. Snowflake Haley.

[Freethinker65]

14. How childish.