{"id":298501,"date":"2024-11-13T08:20:08","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T08:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=298501"},"modified":"2024-11-15T08:08:28","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T08:08:28","slug":"trump-taps-pro-israel-stalwart-elise-stefanik-for-u-n-ambassador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=298501","title":{"rendered":"Trump taps pro-Israel stalwart Elise Stefanik for U.N. ambassador"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marc Rod \u2013 Jewish Insider Nov 11, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n

President-elect Donald Trump announced his first foreign policy nomination for his second administration this weekend, selecting the pro-Israel stalwart Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) as his ambassador to the United Nations.<\/p>\n

Stefanik, a close Trump ally once seen as a possible vice presidential pick, has become a star in the Jewish community over the past year for her aggressive questioning of university presidents about campus antisemitism. Given her past criticisms of the U.N., she\u2019s likely to bring a strong focus on supporting Israel and attacking the U.N. system for anti-Israel bias to her new role.<\/p>\n

Stefanik, currently the No. 4 Republican in the House, said in a statement that she\u2019s \u201ctruly honored\u201d and \u201cdeeply humbled\u201d by the nomination. She highlighted antisemitism as one of the key issues that she\u2019s aiming to tackle in her new role.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe work ahead is immense as we see antisemitism skyrocketing coupled with four years of catastrophically weak U.S. leadership that significantly weakened our national security and diminished our standing in the eyes of both allies and adversaries,\u201d Stefanik said. \u201cI stand ready to advance President Donald J. Trump\u2019s restoration of America First peace through strength leadership on the world stage on Day One at the United Nations.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a statement announcing her selection, Trump highlighted Stefanik\u2019s service on the Armed Services and Intelligence Committees, and her work on campus antisemitism.<\/p>\n

In a hint to how she\u2019ll approach her new role, Stefanik has repeatedly blasted the U.N. as systemically antisemitic. She said that the U.S. would need to reconsider all funding it provides to the U.N. if the Palestinian Authority\u2019s efforts to expel Israel from the General Assembly succeed.<\/p>\n

\u201cAmerican taxpayers have no interest in continuing to fund an organization that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have allowed to rot with antisemitism,\u201d Stefanik said in a statement in October. \u201c[Biden and Harris] must take the names of any country supporting this blatantly immoral effort and make clear the position of the United States \u2014 the UN\u2019s single largest source of funding.\u201d<\/p>\n

Additionally, Stefanik has been a longtime supporter of permanently ending U.S. support for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, and backed Israel\u2019s decision to bar the scandal-plagued U.N. agency from operating in the country.<\/p>\n

Stefanik also lambasted the U.N. in September for passing a resolution demanding an immediate end to Israel\u2019s \u201cunlawful presence\u201d in the Palestinian territories..<\/p>\n

\u201cLast week, the United Nations overwhelmingly passed a disgraceful antisemitic resolution to demand that Israel surrender to barbaric terrorists who seek the destruction of both Israel and America\u201d she said. \u201cOnce again the UN\u2019s antisemitic rot is on full display as it punishes Israel for defending itself and rewards Iranian-backed terrorists.<\/p>\n

\u201cInstead of deplorably targeting the legitimacy of the state of Israel, the UN should be demanding that Hamas release every hostage and start enforcing UN Security Council Resolution 1701 to stop Hezbollah\u2019s endless Iranian-backed terrorist attacks,\u201d Stefanik continued.<\/p>\n

She urged the administration to \u201ccall out the UN\u2019s extreme antisemitism and moral depravity and unequivocally support Israel\u2019s right to defend itself against both brutal terrorists and biased international organizations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another potential issue for Stefanik to tackle at the U.N.: Stefanik joined a letter in mid-2023<\/a> calling on the U.S.\u2019s European allies to re-impose U.N. snapback sanctions on Iran calling on European allies<\/a> to impose snapback sanctions on Iran.<\/p>\n

In a speech to the Knesset in May<\/a>, Stefanik expressed support for Israeli \u201ctotal victory\u201d which \u201cstarts with wiping those responsible for Oct. 7 from the face of the earth.\u201d<\/p>\n

She described herself as \u201ca leading proponent and partner to President Trump in his historic support for Israeli independence and security,\u201d on issues including moving the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, supporting the Abraham Accords and moving Israel into U.S. Central Command.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is our duty as Americans to ensure that Israel does not stand alone. We must never let Israel stand alone,\u201d Stefanik said in that speech. \u201cI am confident that our relationship will not just endure, but will emerge stronger than ever before.\u201d<\/p>\n

Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ANOTHER pro-Israeli advocate is nominated for a key post in Trump’s administration<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":298503,"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":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Inside_the_White_House_and_Washingtons_Beltway"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298501","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=298501"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":298509,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298501\/revisions\/298509"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/298503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=298501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=298501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=298501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}