It’s always exciting to see strong women in power standing up for right. U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley’s speech defending Israel today at the U.N. General Assembly was bold, strong and right. As Haley said, America’s decision to move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem does not exclude a two-state solution to the ongoing Middle East conflict. America’s embassy move was supported by former Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Vt.) the first Jewish candidate on a major American political party presidential ticket, who this morning shared Haley’s sentiment that the move says nothing about the final boundaries of the city of Jerusalem (e.g. whether the city could be included in Palestinian territory). As Haley also pointed out, the embassy move is the will of the American people via The Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995 passed by Congress in 1995. It was passed to fund the relocation of the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem no later than May 31, 1999, overwhelmingly embraced in the U.S. Senate (93–5) and House (374–37). But under waivers signed by Presidents Clinton, Bush, and Obama, this law hasn’t been enforced.  As Saagar Enjeti from The Daily Caller points out, “The move to Jerusalem of the US embassy was Bill Clinton made Jerusalem a campaign issue in 1992, attacking then-former President George H.W. Bush for having allegedly…
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