During a tour on Tuesday of Israel's northern border, former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley signed an Israeli bomb, writing "Finish them! America loves Israel always," i24News reported.
Haley, who was a Republican presidential candidate this election campaign, signed the bomb while interacting with soldiers at an IDF post. She stressed that "America stands by Israel. Israel is fighting the enemies of the U.S. today. Don't stop until you win."
The former South Carolina governor said she came on the visit to "express solidarity with Israel. These words are aimed at the Israelis but also at the Americans. We need a strong Israel, and the only way Israel will be strong is when the U.S. supports Israel completely, unapologetically," Ynet reported.
Haley stressed that "we came in the past, we looked at the [northern] border and warned about the threat of Hezbollah and that everything we warned about could happen and continues to happen. All eyes should be on Lebanon, we are talking about Gaza, but in the north, Israel has to repel attacks from Lebanon every day."
Haley continued that "60,000 [Israelis] were driven from their homes, because the region is not safe for them. Israel needs to take care of not only Hamas, but also Hezbollah."
A day earlier, Haley visited Israel's southern communities shattered by the October 7 Hamas massacre, Mediaite reported.
Haley accused Moscow and Beijing of helping Iran and Hamas in the attack on southern Israel in which some 1,200 people were killed and more than 250 kidnapped, saying the massacre "was orchestrated by Iran. It was helped with Russian intelligence. And it was fueled by money from China. Don't deny that."
Although she did not give any specific evidence, Russia hosted Hamas' leaders following the attack and has been a harsh critic of Israel's war in Gaza.
Haley also warned that "if we are arrogant enough" such an attack "could absolutely happen in America, too."
Haley posted on X about meeting a survivor of the Nova music festival in the South, where hundreds were killed and many were raped and mutilated.
"Like my daughter, Tali Biner is a nurse in her 20s who loves music and her friends. But, her life changed forever at the Nova Music Festival," Haley wrote. "For hours she hid, praying not to be next, listening to fellow concertgoers beg for mercy as they were raped, genitally mutilated, and shot to death by Hamas."
Haley continued that "when [Biner] escaped, she tried to treat victims who were butchered and left to slowly die. Now, she bravely tells her story to bear witness for the hundreds who can't - raped, tortured, kidnapped, and murdered simply for being Israeli."
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