Flashback: Nikki Haley Sets the Record Straight After Senior Muslim Diplomat Called US a 'Blatant Bully'
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The United States remains defiant this week in the face of mounting criticism from the United Nations regarding President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
As The Western Journal previously reported, the U.S. vetoed a measure that would have reversed Trump’s pronouncement. U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley went on to criticize the member states who support that security council resolution and a similarly worded non-binding measure that was approved Thursday by the General Assembly.
One Reuters reporter tweeted Wednesday that a “senior diplomat from a Muslim country” shot back at Haley after reading a letter she reportedly sent explaining that Trump intended to keep a close eye on which nations voted against his Jerusalem decision.
“States resort to such blatant bullying only when they know they do not have a moral or legal argument to convince others,” the unnamed official told Michelle Nichols.
Haley once again defended the position by claiming American sovereignty on the issue.
She tweeted that such action actually comes “when a country is tired of being taken for granted.”
The former South Carolina governor used similar language when she defended the prior veto, which marked the first such security council vote by the U.S. in six years.
Haley claimed the action was “in defense of American sovereignty and in defense of America’s role in the Middle East peace process.”
She went on to warn nations supporting the resolution against the U.S. that they could face similar retaliation in the future.
“The United States has a sovereign right to determine where and whether we establish an embassy,” she said. “I suspect very few member states would welcome security council pronouncements about their sovereign decisions.”
Ahead of the general assembly vote on the matter, both Haley and Trump have made it clear the U.S. plans to hold nations individually accountable.
In a letter sent to most of the 193 member states participating in the vote, Haley wrote that the administration will be keeping track of the nations voting in favor of the measure condemning the U.S.
She also tweeted that the U.S. would be “taking names.”
Trump later made the same case more emphatically.
“Let them vote against us,” he said. “We’ll save a lot. We don’t care. But this isn’t like it used to be where they could vote against you and then you pay them hundreds of millions of dollars. We’re not going to be taken advantage of any longer.”
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