“Bravo, Ambassador Haley!” This is the headline David Harris, CEO of the American Jewish Committee, chose for his Huffington Post opinion piece dedicated to America’s new ambassador to the United Nations. “Ambassador Haley, you have quickly established yourself as a courageous and unbending voice of principle in a setting where the word is more often…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Top Trump administration nominees for foreign policy and security posts are advancing through the Senate. On Tuesday, the Senate confirmed Rep. Mike Pompeo, R-Kan., a congressman known for his hard-line opposition to the Iran nuclear deal, as CIA director. Also Tuesday, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved Nikki Haley, the South Carolina…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The United Nations’ most consistent record of failure is with Israel, according to Nikki Haley, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to be ambassador to the world body. Haley’s confirmation hearings in the Senate are set to begin Wednesday and her broadside against the U.N.’s treatment of Israel appears in prepared remarks obtained by…
— President-elect Donald Trump has named South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley the United States’ ambassador to the United Nations. The choice of Haley, 44, the first U.S. governor to sign anti-BDS legislation, was announced Wednesday by Trump’s transition team. Haley is the first woman appointed to a post in the Trump administration. She will replace current…
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