Nikki Haley: Trump Will Not Allow Security Council Resolutions Condemning Israel

"The Trump administration will not allow a repeat of last year's United Nations Security Council Resolution condemning Israel for its settlements, the ambassador to the body, Nikki Haley, told AIPAC.

'Never again do what we saw with resolution 2334 and make anyone question our support' for Israel, Haley said Monday at the annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference, where she earned the warmest reception of all of this year's speakers, with an extended standing ovation.

The Obama administration allowed through the anti-settlements resolutions in December as one of its last acts, triggering bitter recriminations from Israel's government.

Haley described her determination to help steer the course of the United Nations and its agencies from anti-Israel bias, noting her intervention keeping Salam Fayyad, the former Palestinian prime minister, from becoming the body's envoy to Libya, and in getting U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres to withdraw a U.N. affiliate's report likening Israel to an apartheid state.

Haley was one of a number of speakers at AIPAC who drew a sharp contrast at the conference between President Donald Trump's administration and his predecessor, President Barack Obama.

'We had just done something that showed the United States at its weakest ever,' she said of the resolution...

'What I wanted to make sure of was that the United States was leading again,' said Haley. 'I wear high heels, it's not for a fashion statement, it's because if I see something wrong I will kick it every single time.'..."