Former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley — who served in the position during the Trump years — who is currently running for the GOP presidential nomination, absolutely obliterated fellow candidate Vivek Ramaswamy after he revealed he would cut aid to Israel by the year 2028 if he were to be elected to the Oval Office. Given that Israel is our best and most treasured ally in the Middle East, that seems like a very horrible decision to make. Let’s not be wooed into thinking radical terrorism of the Islamic kind is no longer a threat to our country. That could not be more untrue. We need Israel’s help to track down dangerous terrorists who want to destroy us.
“Israel receives nearly $4 billion a year in military aid from the U.S., but nearly all of it — with the exception of loan guarantees, which don’t cost the American taxpayer anything — is used for credits that are sent directly from the Pentagon to U.S. weapons manufacturers. In addition, Israeli intelligence works closely with the U.S. gathering intelligence not only in the Middle East but also in Russia, Central Asia, and other foreign countries,” the Daily Wire reported.
“Speaking to podcast host Russell Brand, Ramaswamy said he would expand the historic Abraham Accords — which cemented relations between Israel on one side and the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco, and Sudan — and broker peace between Israel and countries such as Qatar, Oman, and Indonesia, and then cut U.S. aid to Israel. Qatar has funded Israel’s arch-enemy Hamas, which has called for Israel’s destruction and had also funded the Taliban and Islamists in Syria,” the report continued.
Ramaswamy had stated that if the Abraham Accords cannot be made stronger, the military aid given to the nation of Israel “won’t be necessary in order to still have the kind of stability that we’d actually have in the Middle East by having Israel more integrated in with its partners.”
He then said, While the “relationship with Israel has advanced American interests,”going on to make the claim that it should not receive special treatment.
Haley, none too happy with Ramaswamy’s comments, issued a response as part of a statement put out on Monday.
“Vivek Ramaswamy is completely wrong to call for ending America’s special bond with Israel,” Haley went on to say in a statement. “Support for Israel is both the morally right and strategically smart thing to do. Both countries are stronger and safer because of our iron-clad friendship. As president, I will never abandon Israel.”
Here’s more from the DW report:
Haley noted that Ramaswamy had also suggested that he would abandon Taiwan to Communist China if America were no longer reliant on Taiwan for semiconductors. Ramaswamy told radio host Hugh Hewitt last week, “I’m being very clear: Xi Jinping should not mess with Taiwan until we have achieved semiconductor independence, until the end of my first term when I will lead us there. And after that, our commitments to Taiwan, our commitments to be willing to go to military conflict, will change after that, because that’s rationally in our self-interest.”
“This is part of a concerning pattern with Vivek,” Haley remarked about Ramaswamy’s position. “Between abandoning Israel, abolishing the FBI, and giving China to Taiwan, his foreign policy proposals have a common theme: they make America less safe.”
📥 INBOX: @NikkiHaley Condemns Ramaswamy’s Israel Views, Reaffirms U.S.-Israel Bond pic.twitter.com/Yr62qLxQp7
— Ken Farnaso (@KLF) August 21, 2023
During her time in the Trump administration as a U.N. ambassador, it was Haley’s responsibility to maintain support for Israel, standing with total defiance against nations that often sling some harsh criticism of the country. Most of this is the result of left-wing progressive racism, which has always hated the Jewish nation and those that it is comprised of.
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