| − | Reported in Feb 2023, (after bloody anti-Jewish terror attacks), about [[Tom Nides]], not differentiating between the accidental death of a "Palestinian" civilian during an anti-terror raid with dozens of Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist, and stating that 60% of My time is helping "Palestinians."<ref>Deborah Brand , [https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2023/02/20/us-ambassador-to-israel-60-of-my-time-is-helping-palestinians/ U.S. Ambassador to Israel (Nides): 60% of My Time Is Helping Palestinians], ''Breitbart'', 20 Feb 2023.</ref> {{Cquote|U.S. Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides said he spends the majority of his time helping Palestinians, an unusual remark from a diplomat purporting to serve as the U.S. envoy to Israel. He also made several comments relating to Israel’s domestic policies, including telling Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to “pump the brakes” on the government’s proposal to reform the judiciary and calling on Israel’s new Arab allies to condemn the Jewish state over its recent decision to legalize nine Jewish so-called outposts in the West Bank. “I spend 60% of my time trying to help the Palestinian people,” Nides told podcast host David Axelrod, a former senior advisor to Barack Obama. He drew a moral equivalency between Palestinian terrorism and the IDF’s counter-terror operations, and made no differentiation between the accidental death of a Palestinian civilian during an anti-terror raid with dozens of Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists, and the intentional murder of Jewish Israelis in any one of the five terror attacks to take place in Jerusalem in the past three weeks.}} | + | Tom Nides was appointed by Biden as Ambassador to Israel in 2021 and has called himself a reform and a liberal. |
| | + | Reported in Feb 2023, (after bloody anti-Jewish terror attacks), about Tom Nides, not differentiating between the accidental death of a "Palestinian" civilian during an anti-terror raid with dozens of Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist, and stating that 60% of his time is helping "Palestinians."<ref>Deborah Brand , [https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2023/02/20/us-ambassador-to-israel-60-of-my-time-is-helping-palestinians/ U.S. Ambassador to Israel (Nides): 60% of My Time Is Helping Palestinians], ''Breitbart'', 20 Feb 2023.</ref> {{Cquote|U.S. Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides said he spends the majority of his time helping Palestinians, an unusual remark from a diplomat purporting to serve as the U.S. envoy to Israel. He also made several comments relating to Israel’s domestic policies, including telling Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to “pump the brakes” on the government’s proposal to reform the judiciary and calling on Israel’s new Arab allies to condemn the Jewish state over its recent decision to legalize nine Jewish so-called outposts in the West Bank. “I spend 60% of my time trying to help the Palestinian people,” Nides told podcast host David Axelrod, a former senior advisor to Barack Obama. He drew a moral equivalency between Palestinian terrorism and the IDF’s counter-terror operations, and made no differentiation between the accidental death of a Palestinian civilian during an anti-terror raid with dozens of Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists, and the intentional murder of Jewish Israelis in any one of the five terror attacks to take place in Jerusalem in the past three weeks.}} |