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Trump’s UN ambassador pick says Israel has ‘biblical right’ to West Bank

www.aljazeera.com Trump’s UN ambassador pick says Israel has ‘biblical right’ to West Bank

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

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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.

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Trump’s UN ambassador pick says Israel has ‘biblical right’ to West Bank

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And so has Russia to the Donbas, and so has China to Taiwan, and so has North Korea to South Korea, ans so has Germany to Silesia and Prussia and so have native Americans to America.
- I'd expect that she's not saying "they lived on it a long time ago", but rather "God gave it to the Israelites according to the Bible".
  Exodus 23: 27-31:
  I will have the terror of me precede you, so that I will throw into panic every nation you reach. I will make all your enemies turn from you in flight, and ahead of you I will send hornets to drive the Hivites, Canaanites and Hittites out of your way. But I will not drive them all out before you in one year, lest the land become desolate and the wild animals multiply against you. Little by little I will drive them out before you, until you have grown numerous enough to take possession of the land. I will set your boundaries from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates; all who dwell in this land I will hand over to you and you shall drive them out before you. You shall not make a covenant with them or their gods. They must not live in your land. For if you serve their gods, this will become a snare to you.
  Like, divine will and such.
  
  This particular god is obviously genocidal. People who worship him are immoral cowards at best.
  
  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.
  
  So, what's your point?
  
  That there are a lot of them doesn't make the other poster wrong.
  
  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.
- Who gets Alsace-Lorraine?
  
  Germany, because I'm German and my God told me so.
  
  Das heißt Elsas-Lothringen!
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