{"id":288452,"date":"2024-05-29T13:35:30","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T13:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=288452"},"modified":"2024-05-31T06:39:32","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T06:39:32","slug":"nikki-haley-writes-finish-them-on-idf-artillery-shells-during-israel-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=288452","title":{"rendered":"Nikki Haley writes \u2018finish them\u2019 on IDF artillery shells during Israel visit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nikki Haley signing artillery shells for Rafah<\/p>\n

Robert Tate \u2013 The Guardian May 28, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Nikki Haley, the failed Republican presidential nominee, signed Israeli artillery shells with the inscription \u201cFinish Them!\u201d on a Memorial Day visit to Israel.<\/p>\n

The former South Carolina governor\u2019s graphic display of support came on a trip to Israel\u2019s northern border with Lebanon, where she was accompanied by Danny Danon, a former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations and a noted hawkish member of Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s Likud party in the Knesset.<\/p>\n

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Haley’s message for Israel. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Her shell-signing activities came at a time when Israel is engaged in a devastating military offensive in Gaza that has so far killed more than 36,000 Palestinians, an estimated 15,000 of them children.<\/p>\n

Talking to reporters, Haley was unapologetic, criticising Joe Biden\u2019s administration for temporarily withholding weapons as a means of discouraging an Israeli attack on the southern Gaza city of Rafah, and aiming barbs at the international criminal court (ICC) \u2013 which is seeking Netanyahu\u2019s arrest \u2013 and the international court of justice (ICJ), which is considering charges of genocide against Israel.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat America needs to understand is if Israel\u2019s fighting our enemies, how can we not help them,\u201d said Haley, whose missile message also carried the words \u201cAmerica loves Israel\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe sure way to not help Israel is to withhold weapons. The sure way to not help Israel is to praise the ICC, the ICJ or any of those that are condemning Israel instead of condemning what happens.<\/p>\n

\u201cAmerica needs to do whatever Israel needs and stop telling them how to fight this war. You are either a friend or not a friend.\u201d<\/p>\n

Haley, like Danon a former ambassador to the UN, last week said she would vote for Trump in November\u2019s presidential election, despite having previously denounced him as \u201cdangerous\u201d and unfit to serve.<\/p>\n

Danon proudly recorded Haley\u2019s show of support, which also included a trip to southern Israel to meet survivors of Hamas\u2019s 7 October attack in which about 1,200 people were killed and another 253 were taken hostage, on his X account.<\/p>\n

According to one Israeli peace activist, Alon-Lee Green, Haley also visited settlements in the West Bank, which are not recognised under international law.<\/p>\n

\u201cDear Americans, Nikki Haley visited us today: she went to the West Bank settlements and then signed on a bomb \u2018finish them\u2019. Just disgusting,\u201d Green posted. \u201cCan you take her back please? We already have one [Itamar] Ben-Gvir [Israel\u2019s national security minister] and don\u2019t need your filthy death-promoting politicians as well. Thanks!\u201d<\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Support for Zionism is a prerequisite for success in American politics. So while the Biden administration continues to send arms to Israel and says the Rafah massacre \u201cdidn\u2019t cross any redlines\u201d, Nikki Hailey tours northern Israel in a show of support, signing artillery shells with the words \u201cfinish them\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":288454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[118,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-7-10-gaza-war","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=288452"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288457,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288452\/revisions\/288457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/288454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=288452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=288452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=288452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}