As Haley and DeSantis spar over Israel and Gaza refugees, looking back at her record on world stage
While Nikki Haley was the U.S. ambassador to the U.N. in the Trump administration, she became a vocal defender of Israel As a war between Israel and Hamas continues to escalate in the wake of Hamas' terror attack on Israel earlier this month, the politics of the unfolding conflict are reverberating stateside. Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley has been going back and forth with Florida governor and 2024 rival Ron DeSantis over how the United States should respond to what the U.N. calls a "humanitarian crisis" in the Hamas-controlled Gaza territory. The tit-for-tat between the two Republican presidential candidates, in which DeSantis' campaign has lobbed false claims about what she's said about refugees , began when Haley was asked on Sunday about DeSantis' comments on the campaign trail earlier this month that the U.S. should not take in any people from Gaza because they are "all antisemitic." Haley rebuffed DeSantis during a CNN appearance, sayin...