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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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[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 30 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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 2 days ago (3 children)

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 2 days ago (3 children)

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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[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 39 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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

[–] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (28 children)

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

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[–] b161@lemmy.blahaj.zone 44 points 2 days ago

Americans: “We are still trash.”

World: “We know.”

[–] Chainweasel@lemmy.world 155 points 2 days ago (178 children)

Thank God we saved Palestine from Biden, right protest voters?
Right?

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

Remember when Biden literally voted against the two-state solution at the UN?

[–] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 9 points 2 days ago

The majority of white women voted for Trump in 2016, 2020, and 2024.

"White women are still voting for the Republican candidate

Although women as a whole have historically voted for Democrats, white women have not. Instead, over the last 72 years, a plurality of white women have voted for the Democratic candidate only twice, in 1964 and 1996."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/06/election-trump-harris-women-voters

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[–] Barberserk@lemmy.world 26 points 2 days ago

From the river to the sea, fuck Israel.

[–] itisileclerk@lemmy.world 45 points 2 days ago

Nothing new here, the US has always supported the genocidal state of Israel. The US is complicit in the massacre, genocide and war crimes committed by Israel.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 27 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] Zenith@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago

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

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[–] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 65 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I mean as disgusting as this is he is really just saying the quiet part loud. There was never any plan to give the Palestinians a state. Oslo was a con to legitimise land confiscation and to neutralise the Palestinian resistance of the time (the PLO).

The US did literally nothing while the Zionists flooded the West Bank with settlements over the last 30 years but kept up the "2 state solution" as a rhetorical shield.

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[–] hark@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago

The US was never pursuing such a thing, it was always to string Palestine along while israel goes in butchering the people and land to take for themselves completely.

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