Mike Huckabee suggested any future Palestinian state should be carved out of ‘a Muslim country’

Mike Huckabee suggested any future Palestinian state should be carved out of ‘a Muslim country’

Mike Huckabee, the US ambassador to Israel, has said that the US is no longer pursuing the goal of an independent Palestinian state, marking what analysts describe as the most explicit abandonment yet of a cornerstone of US Middle East diplomacy.

Asked during an interview with Bloomberg News if a Palestinian state remains a goal of US policy, he replied: “I don’t think so.”

The former Arkansas governor chosen by Donald Trump as his envoy to Israel went further by suggesting that any future Palestinian entity could be carved out of “a Muslim country” rather than requiring Israel to cede territory.

  • barneypiccolo@lemm.eeEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I can buy that. I fully believe that from their beginning, Israel has known that someday they will have to clear out the Palestinians, and Oct 7 provided the excuse for them to finally say “Today’s the day.”

    I also fully believe that they’ve had that same mindset toward the rest of the Middle East. They know that eventually they will have to settle their differences with their Muslim neighbors, and it won’t be with good-faith negotiations. And the Muslim countries have the exact same mindset. It is only a matter of time before they go at each other full force, and this Gaza Genocide does look like a dress rehearsal.

    • Saleh@feddit.orgEnglish
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      2 days ago

      It is quite simple really. There is about the same number of Palestinians and white Israelis in Palestine. Palestinians have a higher birthrate.

      The current state was Apartheid, which is costly and unstable.

      This leads to three long term options for an Israeli presence:

      1. Find a political solution, grant equal rights to everyone and serve some justice for Israels past crimes. This is contradictory to the plan of a “jewish” supremacy state. A two state solution also wouldnt work as there is about two million Palestinians with Israeli passport, but heavily discriminated. These would also eventually become an equally sized demographic.

      2. Ethnic cleansing

      3. Genocide

      Since option 1 goes against the core ideology of the Zionists, Israel was always seeking Option 2 or 3. There was a slow ethnic cleansing of the Westbank and East Jerusalem over the past 30 years. Now Israel gambles that they can finish the full ethnic cleansing and genocide faster than the global support failing.