Summary
Elise Stefanik, President Trump’s nominee for U.S. ambassador to the UN, stated during her confirmation hearing that Israel has a “biblical right” to the occupied West Bank, aligning with far-right Israeli officials.
Stefanik sidestepped support for Palestinian self-determination, blaming their leadership for failures.
Her stance signals a shift from Biden-era opposition to Israeli settlements, with Trump lifting sanctions on Israeli settler groups and nominating pro-settlement figures like Mike Huckabee for key roles.
Stefanik also vowed to audit UN funding and block aid to Palestinian refugee agencies.
I’m sorry if I make you feel like you need to leave, it’s just a different way of viewing the world. I understand your sentiment about the threat of Trump, but I don’t excuse the Democrats role in allowing this to happen.
No it isn’t. It’s a different way of holding the conversation. I’m fine with different ways of viewing the world, I’ve been in contact with quite a few of them on and offline.
You’re filling in both sides of the conversation. We’re talking about what a catastrophic fuck-up Trump is for the Palestinians, somehow managing to be incredibly worse than Biden was, and you’re over here pretending that someone is “excusing the Democrats role in allowing this to happen,” and deflecting away from what we’re talking about into literally probably the 30th time I’ve had some variation, yet again, of this exact same conversation. As far as I know, no one was making excuses for Democrats or anything remotely like it. I called Biden a war criminal. It literally doesn’t matter what I say. You have a tailor-made imaginary opponent you are debating, who’s trying to make excuses for Democrats, and so you’re out here debating against that imaginary person. And as far as I can tell, you’ll keep replying forever, always against that imaginary person, always saying the same 4 or 5 different counter-points to the things no one said, never admitting any kind of error, or listening to anything.
That’s a waste of time for me to be a part of. It’s not your way of viewing the world. It is your absolute refusal to take part in the conversation on any kind of genuine basis.