(JTA) Nikki Haley, the American ambassador to the UN, arrived in Israel on Tuesday. She called the UN a "bully" against Israel, during a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem. Netanyahu thanked the envoy for "standing up for Israel" in the UN. "You know, all I've done, is tell the truth, and it's kind of overwhelming at the reaction," Haley said in response. She called Israel-bashing at the U.N. "a habit." "It was something that we're so used to doing," she said. "And if there's anything I have no patience for is bullies, and the U.N. was being such a bully to Israel, because they could." She added: "We're starting to see a turn in New York. I think they know they can't keep responding in the way they've been responding. They sense that the tone has changed."
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