At a hearing, Elise Stefanik pledged to continue the US’s defence of Israel and advance Trump’s ‘America First’ agenda.

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.

  • Jeena@piefed.jeena.netEnglish
    15·
    15 hours ago

    This particular god is obviously genocidal. People who worship him are immoral cowards at best.

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      41·
      15 hours ago

      Well, the guy is the god of the Abrahamic religions.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abrahamic_religions

      Christianity is the largest Abrahamic religion with about 2.5 billion adherents, called Christians, constituting about 31.1% of the world’s population.[158] Islam is the second largest Abrahamic religion, as well as the fastest-growing Abrahamic religion in recent decades.[158][159] It has about 1.9 billion adherents, called Muslims, constituting about 24.1% of the world’s population. The third largest Abrahamic religion is Judaism with about 14.1 million adherents, called Jews.[158] The Baháʼí Faith has over 8 million adherents, making it the fourth largest Abrahamic religion,[160][161] and the fastest growing religion across the 20th century, usually at least twice the rate of population growth.[162] The Druze Faith has between one million and nearly two millions adherents.[163][164]

      That’d be most of humanity.

      • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.zipEnglish
        3·
        7 hours ago

        Yes, correct, if most of humanity worships a genocidal maniac, they are at best immoral cowards who prefer to downplay this and emphasize other aspects of their genocidal maniac God.

        If they actively celebrate or justify the genocidal mania of their genocidal maniac God, they are even worse.

      • ZaktorEnglish
        8·
        15 hours ago

        That there are a lot of them doesn’t make the other poster wrong.