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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.

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[-] MetalMachine@feddit.nl 59 points 6 days ago

"No longer" they didn't pursue it from the start, just pretended to.

[-] Ledericas@lemm.ee 35 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

it was over the moment trump moved the embassy to jeruselum. oh and they never even planned to give palestine thier rightful state.

[-] rumimevlevi@lemmings.world 8 points 5 days ago

There was never a chance

[-] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 47 points 6 days ago

"No longer".

It is great that the Trump administration is dropping the fake pretenses.

[-] NutWrench@lemmy.ml 47 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Decades of broken promises and bad-faith negotiations prove that the U.S. has never had a "peace process" for the Mideast. Our process has always been, "Israel always gets whatever it wants and fark everything else. "

[-] b161 47 points 6 days ago

Americans: “We are still trash.”

World: “We know.”

[-] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 40 points 6 days ago

Why treat people with dignity when you can genocide them and grab all that real estate?

[-] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 17 points 6 days ago

I vote this as the default slogan for all Western Civ history classes

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[-] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 5 points 5 days ago

"They say they'll kill them off, take their land and go there for vacation"

-Rage Against the Machine

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago

I think it should be carved out of Texas.

They've got lots of empty space, the weather sucks, they'll be surrounded with idiot bigots. They ought to feel right at home.

[-] archomrade@midwest.social 4 points 5 days ago

Fuck that, Israel should be carved out of Texas, not Palestine.

It will be much more cost effective to deliver our lethal aid within our own borders rather than across the Atlantic.

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[-] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 29 points 6 days ago

So much to unpack here.

First of all, when asked, he said "I don't think so." He should have a definitive answer to that question, not some weasely equivocation.

The fact that we aren't supporting a PLACE for them to live as an independent nation, signals that America has embraced the genocide option.

This is entirely about developing a Jewish Dubai, so they don't have to spend their money with Muslims. HitlerPig's Spiritual Advisor has already come out to say that Christians won't be able to enter heaven unless they make a pilgrimage to Israel, the way Muslims make their pilgrimage to Mecca. Of course, for the MAGA Nazis, it's not about spiritual fulfillment, it's about making Christians spend their money in their hotels and restaurants.

[-] altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 6 days ago

Israel has a very successful gamble in showing they are the white man's key to the Middle East. For as long as no one wills to find another ally in the region, Israel oversells itself as a one. And as any other bad example of putting all eggs in one basket, Israel felt the dependency other states have in it, and now tests it, tests it, tests it with no negative response.

Palestine and Gaza are just them dipping their toes to know, if they can get scots-free from shooting weak HAMAS and civs and get into a real war Netanyahu's cabinet already planning. It's 2025 and in the coming years we'd see even more violence from that beloved partner if no one pulls the stop lever.

[-] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 8 points 6 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.

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[-] Barberserk@lemmy.world 28 points 6 days ago

From the river to the sea, fuck Israel.

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 29 points 6 days ago
[-] Zenith@lemm.ee 4 points 5 days ago

The people saying a vote for Harris was a vote for genocide definitely believed it

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