Reentering the Iranian nuclear deal is a “death wish” for Israel and the world, former US ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley warned Monday.
“The idea right now that you have multiple countries around the world, including the United States, looking to figure out how to redo this Iran deal is nothing more than a death wish for Israel and eventually a death wish for the world,” she said during a conversation with a select group of reporters from her Jerusalem hotel.
Haley was in the country on a solidarity mission organized by Christians United for Israel. She spent Sunday touring the rocket-tattered South and Monday in meetings with top Israeli officials, including Foreign Minister Yair Lapid and former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Although she was in touch with Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s office, she was unable to meet with him, she said.
Haley lashed out at the Biden administration’s recent efforts to engage with the Islamic Republic, saying Biden’s “falling over himself to get back into the Iran deal is pretty disgusting.”
“Iran is never going to change its ways,” she said. “It is never going to stop saying death to Israel. It is never going to stop saying death to America. And the only way that we can effect change is to pull the money back and pull the purse strings back.”
Iran directly funds Israel’s enemies, including Hamas and Hezbollah, Haley said.
“If you fund Iran, you are funding terrorists that want to kill Israel,” she said.
Haley spent time on the Lebanese-Israel border during her tenure as UN ambassador from 2017-2018. What happened last month during the 12-day conflict with Hamas pales in comparison to the threat posed by Hezbollah, she said.
Twelve Israelis were killed during Operation Guardian of the Walls, including two children, and several hundred were wounded. On the Palestinian side, the Gaza Health Ministry said more than 200 people were killed.
“You have Hezbollah waiting in the wings, and Hezbollah makes Hamas look like child’s play,” Haley said. “Hezbollah is going to be the next issue” for Israel.
She also condemned Biden for failing to thank the Arab countries, such as the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, which normalized ties with Israel as part of the Abraham Accords under former US president Donald Trump. Haley accused Biden of “slapping them in the face” by engaging in talks with Iran.
“You cannot be friends with Israel, and you cannot say thank you to the people who want to be friends with Israel, by getting back into the Iran deal,” she said.
Israel “did a great job showing what happens when you mess with them,” Haley said, adding that she believes Israel will survive because “you cannot destroy what God has blessed, and God blessed Israel.”
However, “I don’t want Israel standing alone,” Haley concluded.
The full interview with Haley will appear in Friday’s Magazine.
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Instead of wasting so much time in Afghanistan, we should have obliterated Iran.
IMO we should have done the same to IRAN, IRAQ and afgan. JUST GLASSED the entire countries.. AND NEVER spent TRILLIONS OF OUR OWN DOLLARS< 'rebuilding their nations'..
Unfortunately, Biden is sympathetic to terrorists, like Hamas. Biden and the Democrats fund the terrorists. I feel bad for the Israelis.
Biden’s “falling over himself to get back into the Iran deal is pretty disgusting.”
Maybe this is because one of Puppet President Betrayal Biden’s handlers is the Muslim tinkerbell barack obama.
IT certainly wouldn’t shock me to find OBAMAS Hands all over this..
dont under estimate our israeli brothers they take what we sell or give them and make it better.
god will NOT let israel be destroyed he will obliterate her enemies and they will be his son jesus foot stool.
iran will mess around and get nuked by the israelis and i would bet the rest of the region would be happy about it.
Obama’s lousy Iran deal redux is what 70% of Jewish Americans voted for and supported with their donations to the Democrat Party. Their media influence (both legacy and social) also aided Dems by covering up Biden corruption while smearing Trump with false charges of Russian collusion and Ukraine interference. Why don’t Israeli Jews ask American Jews what they think they’re doing by shoring up the blatantly antisemitic Dem party?
Sorry Nikki, but run as you might, I would not vote for you as dog catcher. You are nothing but a two faced *******
Haley demonstrated poor reading of the Republican Room when she thought voters would obediently go back to the do-nothing status quo that the GOPelite dish out and dissed Trump. We need someone a lot smarter than that.