Heather Nauert next UN ambassador

From Fox & Friends to the State Department, and now to the United Nations.

President Trump is expected to announce Friday that he has chosen Heather Nauert, the State Department spokeswoman and a former Fox News host, to become the next ambassador to the U.N., a senior administration official tells NPR's Tamara Keith.

If confirmed, Nauert would replace Nikki Haley, who is leaving the post at the end of the year.

Nauert was camera-ready when she came to the State Department in April 2017, having worked at ABC and Fox. She never traveled with and was not close to her first boss at the department, former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. 

With Mike Pompeo in charge of State, Nauert has been on the road much more.

She's been a strong defender of Trump's at the podium, something he has clearly noticed.

"She's excellent, she's been with us a long time, she's been a supporter for a long time," Trump told reporters on Nov. 1.

The State Department used to hold daily briefings. That has been scaled back to two a week, at most.

Nauert, 48, has been back and forth between her husband and two sons in New York and her job in Washington, D.C.

Before joining the Trump administration, she had no government or foreign policy experience, though she did work on some overseas assignments for ABC, including in Baghdad.

Insanity reigns in the UN mad-house

It may have escaped your notice,

 but the world went completely insane in the last week of November.

In the wake of the Paris Islamic outrages that left over 130 killed and more than 300 badly injured, after the carnage in a Mali hotel, following the downing of Russian passenger and fighter planes over Sinai and Syria, and the never-ending mayhem in the Middle East with its consequential million plus refugees desperately trying to find shelter in a Europe and America that are locking their doors, 

the United Nations continued its blind hatred of Israel by passing another SIX resolutions condemning the Jewish state for all sort of alleged misdemeanors.

No other country was sanctioned, only Israel.

The depravity of their anti-Israel decision making was encapsulated in one resolution that

 “Determines once more that the continued occupation of the Syrian Golan and its de facto annexation constitute a stumbling block in the way of achieving a just, comprehensive and lasting peace in the region.”

They are not only blindly ill-informed at the UN, they are certifiably insane. 

Someone needs to knock on their door and tell them about Islamic State, Jebhat Al-Nusrah, the slaughter of Christians, Muslims, Yazidis and Kurds by international meddlers but mostly by the murderous Assad regime.

If there is anywhere on the Syrian border where peace and justice reigns, it is Israel’s presence on the Golan Heights.

If the immorality of these resolutions wasn’t bad enough, not one European nation voted against the Syria-Golan-peace resolution. Not one!

So, while the world is going to hell in a hand-basket, according to the UN it is Israel maintaining a peaceful Golan that is driving them there, and liberal democratic Europe is their navigator.

The United Nations has become the mad-house of international diplomacy and its inmates keep proving, over and over again, that they are certifiably insane.

Barry Shaw is the Senior Associate for Public Diplomacy at the Israel Institute for Strategic Studies. He is also the author of best-selling ‘Fighting Hamas, BDS and Anti-Semitism.’

Susan Rice, US Ambassador to the UN Blames Israel!

Susan Rice, America's United Nations ambassador, recently insisted that "for more than four decades, Israeli settlement activity has corroded hopes for peace and stability in the region."

It's a scurrilous charge, but let's play dumb and assume Rice didn't know the latest proof to the contrary. Let's assume she doesn't know that Palestinians, even the so-called moderate ones, are vehemently denouncing plans to teach the Holocaust to their children.

The welcome proposal comes from the UN, which runs many schools for Palestinian "refugees" in both the West Bank and Gaza, as well Jordan, Syria and Lebanon. The Jerusalem Post reports the UN quickly found itself accused of a "suspicious scheme" and a "cultural crime" by Hamas, which controls Gaza. A leader of Fatah, which controls the West Bank, was no more receptive, calling the Holocaust the "big lie."

Now that she knows all this, Rice will surely realize the fundamental problem is that too many Palestinians hate Jews and do not accept Israel's right to exist. And once she realizes that, she will understand that to call any other issue the obstacle to peace is truly the Big Lie.

by Michael Goodwin, New York Post