Muslim Nations Should Build Palestinian State on Their Lands: US Envoy to Israel
The US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee has said that “Muslim countries” should build a Palestinian state on their territory, according to BBC.
“Muslim countries have 644 times the amount of land that are controlled by Israel. So maybe, if there is such a desire for the Palestinian state, there would be someone who would say, we’d like to host it,” Huckabee said in a videotaped interview with the BBC.
During the interview, he harshly criticized US allies, including the UK and Australia, for imposing sanctions on two far-right Israeli ministers over “repeated incitements of violence against Palestinian communities” in the occupied West Bank.
On June 1, Huckabee attacked France’s call for recognizing the Palestinian state, stating that if it adopted such an outcome, it could “carve out a piece of the French Riviera” and create one, according to Al-Arabiya.
The ambassador described the initiative at the UN as “incredibly inappropriate when Israel is in the midst of a war.”
The Israeli statement came after Macron’s call for European countries to toughen up their stance on Israel if the humanitarian situation in Gaza did not improve.
“If France is really so determined to see a Palestinian state, I’ve got a suggestion for them — carve out a piece of the French Riviera and create a Palestinian state. They are welcome to do that, but they are not welcome to impose that kind of pressure on a sovereign nation,” Huckabee said.
In May, Israel also accused French President Emmanuel Macron of undertaking a “crusade against the Jewish state.”
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