The American ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, prevailed against the campaign led by France in favor of the recognition of a Palestinian state, saying that Paris could “separate a piece from the coast of Azur” to create one.
France will be charged from June 17 to 20 with Saudi Arabia, an international conference at the United Nations aimed at relaunching the idea of a solution of two states, to which the government of the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu firmly opposes. France also said that he could recognize a Palestinian state this year.
In an interview published on Saturday on the Fox News site, Mike Huckabee described the UN “incredibly inappropriate UN initiative when Israel is in the middle of the war.”
“On October 7, he changed a lot,” he said, referring to the unprecedented attack against Hamas in Israel in 2023 that caused the war in Gaza.
“If France is really so determined to see a Palestinian state, I have a suggestion to do so: separate a piece from the coast of Azur and create a Palestinian state. They (the French) are welcome to do this, but they are not welcome to impose this type of pressure on a sovereign nation.”
Tel Aviv cold with Paris
Israel accused French president Emmanuel Macron on Friday of leading a “crusade against the Jewish state”, after asking European countries to press their position on Israel if the humanitarian situation in Gaza did not improve.
The previous day, Israel had announced the creation of 22 new colonies in the West Bank, the Minister of Defense Israel Katz promised to build a “Jewish Israeli State” in this Palestinian territory occupied since 1967.
The Israeli colonies established in the West Bank are regularly condemned by the United Nations as illegal according to international law, and are considered an important obstacle to the solution to two states.
For Mike Huckabee, a burning defender of Israel, “there is no occupation” of the Palestinian territories.
Source: BFM TV
