Haley Campaign Press Release - Haley Warns the World Will Turn Against Israel; Calls for Moral Clarity

CHARLESTON, S.C. — Presidential candidate Nikki Haley joined CNN's Jake Tapper this morning, underscoring her support for Israel and its right to self-defense—not just when Israel gets hit, but when it hits back. She also warned that we should "expect the finger to point to Israel" and "point to America" once Israel enters Gaza.

On the world blaming Israel...

"But where are the Arab countries? Where are they? Where is Qatar? Where is Lebanon? Where is Jordan? Where is Egypt?... The Arab countries aren't doing anything to help the Palestinians because they don't trust who is right, who is good, who is evil, and they don't want it in their country. So they're gonna come and blame America, they're gonna come and blame Israel, and don't fall for it, because they have the ability to fix all of this if they wanted to. They have the ability to go in and tell Hamas right now to stop what they're doing... And who's silent? Every one of those Arab countries are going to be silent. But expect the finger to point to Israel and the finger is going to point to America."

On Hamas using civilians as human shields...

"There are a couple of things at play here. Hamas is going to do everything they can to not have them leave because guess what—they want them all to die. One, they want to use them as human shields, but two, they want to blame Israel and show images of dead children and say look at what Israel did. But don't ever forget what Hamas did. Don't ever forget those girls running for their life. Don't ever forget those babies that were killed in cribs. Don't ever forget the people that they were dragging through the streets. What were they saying Jake? They were saying, 'death to Israel, death to America.' That's who we're dealing with."

On Biden's foreign policy failures...

"Let's look back at what Biden did: Biden turned around and fell all over himself to get into the Iran deal. Obama did it before that. You gave all of this money, and what did you do? You empowered Iran to go and strengthen Hamas, strengthen Hezbollah, strengthen the Houthis to spread their terrorist activity... So we've created this scenario where you've given Iran, the Iranian regime, too much power and too much pull in to be able to do this we've got to be strong we've got to have Israel's back and remember, as awful as these images are and we have the back of Israel because they've been hit terribly, we have to have the back of them when they hit back as well."

On Trump criticizing Netanyahu...

"It's why I continue to say it is time for a new generational leader. We've got to get past the headlines of the past... So, complimenting Hezbollah and going and complimenting the Chinese Communist Party, or criticizing a leader who has just watched so many of his citizens brutally murdered. It's the wrong place at the wrong time. This isn't about Trump. It's not about him. It's not about what happened in the past. We've got to look forward."