‘Muslim countries have 644 times more land controlled by Israel’: US Ambassador to two state solutions Hukabi; Slams Alperies Uk, Australia
The US Ambassador to Israel Mike Hukabi suggested that “Muslim countries” should give up some of their land to create a future Palestinian state.Speaking to the BBC, Hukabi said that Muslim countries have 644 times more land than Israel. “So maybe if there is such a desire for the Palestinian state, there will be someone who will say, we want to host it,” he said.Hukabi further called the idea of a two-state solution, where Israel and future Palestinian kingdom would be present together, “a aspiring goal.” The idea is widely supported internationally, including previous US governments.The plan envisions a Palestinian kingdom in West Bank and Gaza, with Eastern Jerusalem as its capital.But in a separate interview with Bloomberg, Hukabi said that the US was no longer working towards creating an independent Palestinian state.Later, the State Department spokesman Tammy Bruce said Hukabi was speaking for himself, and the President set an American policy in the Middle East.Asked if the US now opposed a Palestinian kingdom in the West Bank, Hukabi said, “I will not say that never, what I would say will have to change a culture.”“The culture right now is that it is okay to target and kill the Jews and you have been rewarded for it. It has to be changed.”Israel itself rejects the two-state solution. It states that any final agreement should come through interaction with Palestinians, and this state may not be a pre -condition.Hukabi has long supported the idea of ”Greater Israel”, which means permanent Israeli control of the Palestinian regions occupied. He uses the Bible word “Judea and Samaria” to refer to the West Bank.The ambassador also strongly criticized American colleagues, including the UK and Australia, to ban two far-flung Israeli ministers. A ban on the “repeat of violence against the Palestinian communities of ministers in the West Bank occupied.He said, “I have not yet heard a good reason why these two elected ministers have been approved by those countries who should respect the sovereignty of the country and to believe that they have not done any criminal activity.”The war in Gaza began in October 2023, when Hamas attacked Israel, killed about 1,200 people and took around 251 hostages. 56 hostages are still being organized in Gaza, and at least 20 are considered alive.Since the war began, according to Gaza’s Hamas-Interested Health Ministry, at least 54,927 Palestinians have died. The United Nations says that there were more than a quarter of the dead.
