Before the change of tone of Emmanuel Macron against Benjamin Netanyahu, the American ambassador to Israel allowed a “suggestion.” The French president opened the way to France recognition of the Palestinian StateA means to support a “states” solution in the Middle East, which moves away from the Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu.
“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,” said Mike Huckabee, American Embassador to Israel.
“The Israeli people love it”
The appointment of this former governor of Arkansas by Donald Trump was confirmed on April 10 by the United States Senate. Twice candidate for the president of the United States in 2008 and 2016, he had already gone several tens of times to Israel, according to The Times of Israel.
“It will be fantastic, it will bring the bacon back to the house (an expression that means being successful, note of the editor), (…) Congratulations to Mike Huckabee,” said US President on the day of his appointment.
“He loves Israel and the Israeli people, and in the same way, the Israeli people love him,” he added in a statement.
“There is no Palestinian”
The 69 years, the former conservative Baptist pastor defines himself as a Christian Zionist. “It is the opportunity to play a strategic role in the security of Israel and the Jewish people because I unconditionally believe in the Bible, I take chapter 12 seriously, which reminds us that God will bless those who will bless Israel, and Maudira to those who cursed Israel,” he was delighted last November, he recalls life.
Mike Huckabee’s positions are in line with Pro-Israelian policy led by Donald Trump. According to CNN, the man opposed several times in the past to the creation of a Palestinian State, coming to deny the existence of a Palestinian nation.
In 2008, he declared during his campaign for the presidential elections “that, in fact, it does not exist, I must be careful when saying it because people could be upset, there is no Palestinian.”
During his second campaign in 2015, he also suggested that if a Palestinian State was created, it should be in Egypt, Syria or Jordan, instead of the University of the Israeli borders.
Rejection of the word “colonies”
Mike Huckabee was also in favor of Israel’s colonies, especially in the West Bank, where the first stone of a new district in one of the colonies placed in 2017, according to CNN. He had also rejected the use of the word “colonies”, and estimated that this territory belonged to Israel.
“The West Bank does not exist. It is Judea-Samaria. There are no colony. They are communities, neighborhoods, cities. There is no occupation,” he said.
During his appointment, Mike Huckbee said before the Senate that he was not there to “express or even defend my own opinions or policies, but that he presents me as someone who will respect and represent the president chosen for an overwhelming majority.”
The “privilege” of being designated to tell the Israeli people also advanced: “You will never go through what you went through”, referring to the attack against Hamas on October 7.
Several Israeli officials rejoiced in their appointment to the American embassy, such as the Minister of Finance, Bezalel Smotrich, who said he was “convinced” that with him they were going to “strengthen the security and power of Israel and consolidate the control of all its territories”, or the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Gideon SA said he wanted to work in “a strengthening of our peoples.”
Source: BFM TV
