Nikki Haley would make a disastrous president

The most astonishing thing about Nikki Haley’s resignation as US ambassador to the United Nations is that she leaves on a tide of goodwill, with the demeanour of a woman with a job well done. It says a good deal about the calibre of coverage that the only aspects of interest in her tenure was whether her departure was timed to coincide with Brett Kavanaugh’s reception into the Supreme Court and whether she was intending to stand for the presidency herself any time soon. There was a bit of teeth sucking at Donald Trump saying that she’d brought “glamour” to the role – ooh, sexist! – and reflections about the loss of the most senior woman in his administration. There was rather less about the fact that she’s the daughter of Indian immigrants to the US.

Can we drop this gender-driven drivel and reflect on the woman’s actual record? She was one of the most anti-Palestinian member of the administration, at least in its foreign policy division, being an enthusiastic proponent of the most disastrous decision taken in this administration, to move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.