
Newsweek
Amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, former Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley's four-word message on Israeli artillery shells has made its way across social media as it sparked outrage on Tuesday.
Division remains over the U.S. response to the Israel-Hamas war, which began after the Palestinian militant group launched a surprise attack against Israel on October 7, killing 1,200 people and taking an estimated 240 hostage. Israel subsequently launched its heaviest-ever airstrikes in Gaza. More than 34,000 Palestinians have been killed, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. The rising death toll has led to international calls for a ceasefire and multiple protests at universities across America.
On Monday, Haley, the former South Carolina governor who also served as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations under former President Donald Trump, visited Israel where she met with survivors of Hamas' attack. Haley traveled to Israel's northern border with a member of the Israeli Knesset, Danny Danon, who posted photos on X, formerly Twitter, on Tuesday showing Haley signing her name with the message "Finish Them! America [Heart drawing] Israel" to Israeli artillery shells.
"This is what my friend, the former ambassador, Nikki Haley wrote today about a shell during a visit to an artillery post on the northern border," Danon wrote in Hebrew according to Google Translate.
This comes as Haley called on the U.S. government to continue providing military aid to the Israeli government to support its war against Hamas, telling reporters during her visit that the United States "needs to do whatever Israel needs and stop telling them how to fight this war."