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demmiblue

(36,893 posts) Thu Jan 25, 2018, 02:47 PM Jan 2018

Irony is dead: Nikki Haley criticizes world leaders for invoking conspiracy theories

Source: Think Progress

On Thursday, UN ambassador Nikki Haley criticized President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority for allegedly invoking conspiracy theories during a recent speech in which he blasted the Trump administration for its handing of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, including its provocative move to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

Referring to a portion of the speech in which Abbas gave a lengthy lecture about the origins of Zionism, Haley said, “A speech that indulges in outrageous and discredited conspiracy theories is not the speech of a person with the courage and the will to seek peace.”

https://thinkprogress.org/nikki-haley-trump-conspiracy-theories-israel-palestinian-authority-2a24c28741d7/

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Irony is dead: Nikki Haley criticizes world leaders for invoking conspiracy theories (Original Post) demmiblue Jan 2018 OP

...such as her affair with trump?..... samnsara Jan 2018 #1

Is this the onion? Iliyah Jan 2018 #2

It got worse - last paragraph of the article underpants Jan 2018 #4

They sure want a War in the Middle East. Wellstone ruled Jan 2018 #3

Or anywhere, for that matter PJMcK Jan 2018 #5

Pirmarily Mid East. Wellstone ruled Jan 2018 #6

samnsara

(17,636 posts)

1. ...such as her affair with trump?.....

Reply to demmiblue (Original post)

Thu Jan 25, 2018, 02:50 PM

Jan 2018

Iliyah

(25,111 posts)

2. Is this the onion?

Reply to demmiblue (Original post)

Thu Jan 25, 2018, 02:50 PM

Jan 2018

OMG, they really do not care how they look, they are all insane.

underpants

(182,883 posts)

4. It got worse - last paragraph of the article

Reply to Iliyah (Reply #2)

Thu Jan 25, 2018, 02:53 PM

Jan 2018

During another part of her speech on Thursday, Haley — alluding to then-Egyptian president Anwar Sadat’s role leading role in making the 1979 Egypt-Israel peace treaty happen — asked, “Where is the Palestinian Anwar Sadat?” That comment was also a bit uncomfortable, given that Sadat was assassinated two years after the peace accord was struck.

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)

3. They sure want a War in the Middle East.

Reply to demmiblue (Original post)

Thu Jan 25, 2018, 02:51 PM

Jan 2018

PJMcK

(22,050 posts)

5. Or anywhere, for that matter

Reply to Wellstone ruled (Reply #3)

Thu Jan 25, 2018, 02:58 PM

Jan 2018

Trump needs a national distraction. A war would do it. He could then claim that he doesn't have time to be interviewed by the Special Counsel. He'll claim that the nation should rally behind the president.

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)

6. Pirmarily Mid East.

Reply to PJMcK (Reply #5)

Thu Jan 25, 2018, 03:04 PM

Jan 2018

The Extraction Industry wants the Mineral and Oil Deposits in Iran. Plus the Strategic Waterways and Pipelines that are under Iranian Sovereign control.

This has been one of the main tenants of the Neo-Cons since the Shah was thrown out.

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