On Tuesday, President Donald Trump’s pick for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said that she believes Israel has a “biblical right” to the occupied West Bank, parroting a view held by extremist Zionists on Israel’s illegal occupation of the Palestinian territory.
In her Senate confirmation hearing, Elise Stefanik refused to answer a question from Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Maryland) about whether or not she supports both Israeli and Palestinians’ right to self-determination. She said that Israel is a “beacon of human rights” in the Middle East, despite Israel’s documented slaughter of tens of thousands of civilians in Gaza in the past year and numerous rulings against it in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for human rights violations…..more
