Haley: UN resolution on Israel ‘a kick in the gut’

Published January 18, 2017 6:05pm ET



President-elect Trump’s nominee for ambassador to the United Nations called the recent Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlement construction “a kick in the gut,” though she said she also opposes the settlement expansion.

“What I think happened with 2334 was a kick in the gut to everyone,” South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, Trump’s choice for U.N. representative, said during her Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing on Wednesday. “And so we can think what we want to think on settlements, but you have to think that the U.S. abstention … was wrong.”

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