Nikki Haley Quotes
There is an obvious truth here that must be spoken. The truth is that Assad, Russia, and Iran have no interest in peace.
Haley, Nikki. "Remarks at the UN Security Council." United Nations, New York, 12 Apr. 2017.
The Arab armies of Egypt, Syria, Jordan and the PLO were preparing a coordinated attack on Israel. After statements like this, the Israeli’s preempted the attack, routed the Egyptian Airforce and Army, and then defeated the other three. The Arab “War of Liberation” resulted in the Arabs losing more with Israel tripling it’s control of area. The quotation however cast a pall over attempts thereafter to create a Palestinian State as in effect the PLO had announced a policy of a Holocaust—the extermination of the Israelis. The dispute over land was not for the Jewish state a land negotiation amenable to compromise and give and take, but instead was an existential threat to Israel whereby any compromise might result in the death of the entire population. As the ultimate intention of the PLO had been revealed.
Syria and its Terrorist Lebanon Proxy Hezbollah were trying to control Lebanon. Syrian troops had been stationed in Lebanon at the request of Hezbollah, which had a narrow plurality in the parliament but did not control the Lebanese Army. Most Lebanese who were not Hezbollah supporters opposed their Islamic fundamentalist approach. They also resented Syrian troops occupying Lebanese soil and intimidating the politicians. After Tueni publicly blamed Syria, the Syrian leadership then instructed Hezbollah to assassinate Tueni which they did in 2005. It took another 5 years for the United Nations investigation found officially that it was Hezbollah operatives that were the assassins.
Lev Davidovich Bronstein. There was even extensive Arab hostility to the Jews in Palestine before WWII and the Holocaust. Apologists for the Arab violence to the Jews have pointed to the creation of the state of Israel, the Arabs defeat in the wars with Israel and the fact that many Palestinians left their homes and could not return as the anger which fed the conflict. But as this quote shows they were attacking the Jews even before the second world war and the so called “reasons” for their violence.
The convoy was heading for the city of Alleppo that had been under siege by the government for weeks. 22 UN Aid Workers were killed and half the cargo was destroyed. Syria had been in a Civil War for a number of years, and the Government of Bashar al-Assad had committed one atrocity after another. A cease fire had been agreed to and the UN notified all parties to the war about the humanitarian convoy’s schedule and route. It was not known whether the government had decided to attack the convoy to put more pressure on the people in Aleppo to end their rebellion or the attack was made by local commanders of government troops who did not want to see the pressure on Aleppo lifted.
Nimrata Nikki Haley is an American politician, diplomat, businesswoman, and author who served as the 116th and first female governor of South Carolina from 2011 to 2017 and as the 29th United States ambassador to the United Nations from 2017 to 2018.
