Publish date23 Jan 2025 - 12:27
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Trump’s UN ambassador pick stresses Israel’s “biblical right” to occupy West Bank

Donald Trump’s pick for representing United States at the United Nations claims Israeli settlers have the ‘biblical right’ to occupy the occupied West Bank.
Trump’s UN ambassador pick stresses Israel’s “biblical right” to occupy West Bank
Elise Stefanik’s comment came during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday. 
 
At the hearing, Elise Stefanik pledged to continue the US’s defense of Israel and advance Trump’s ‘America First’ agenda.
 
Stefanik, a Republican congresswoman from New York, further said that she supports the claims made by the far right in Israel that Jews have the “biblical right” to take land from Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
 
Stefanik was definitive when asked if she shared the view of far-right Israeli finance minister Bezalel Smotrich and former hawkish minister Itamar Ben Gvir that Israel has a “biblical right to the entire West Bank”.
She responded with one word, “Yes.”
 
Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen further asked Stefanik whether she supported Palestinians' right to self-determination.
 
Stefanik refused to answer the question directly, saying, “I think they deserve more than the failures that they have suffered under the leadership of terrorists.”
 
Representative Stefanik is an advocate of claims by Zionists that Israeli regime is justified in killing and ethnically cleansing Palestinian Christians and Muslims from their lands and homes.
 
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