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Exclusive – United States will not participate in a conference next month in New York, hosted by France and Saudi Arabia aimed at promoting the recognition of the Palestinian state, US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee Said Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview in Jerusalem earlier this week.
“It is incredibly inappropriate in the midst of the war that Israel deals with to go out and present something that I think are more and more Israelis.
“On October 7, he has changed many things. If France is really so determined to see the Palestinian state, I have a proposal for them – I single out a part of the French Riviera and create a Palestinian state who are welcome to do so, but they are not welcome to impose such a type of pressure on the sovereign nation.
The US Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, keeps him a day from President Donald Trump to place himself in the cracks of the western wall, the most holy place where Jews can pray, in the old town of Jerusalem, Friday, April 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
“I hope it will re -examine, but now it won’t participate. It just won’t be part of such a crowd,” he added.
Huckabee, commenting on recently reported tensions between two close allies, noted There may be disagreements Between Trump’s administration and Israeli government Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but there should be no fear of cracked in bilateral relationships.
“I do not think that the Pro-Israeli Americans do not need to worry that there are several schisms between the United States and Israel. Are there sometimes a difference in opinion on the next steps in the war in Gaza, get hostage home or maybe avoid a comprehensive war with Iran? Of course, it’s natural,” he said.
“But as far as the relationship between Israel and the US is concerned, it is not in any way, nor is it in any way broken or broken. It is firm, it must be. We have no choice. It is critically important that the United States maintain their partnership – and I use our intelligence – the army, which is not in the Alliance, which is not in the alliance, which is not in the Covenant in which our nations are connected inseparable. “
President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meet at the White House in Washington, DC, February 4, 2025. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
About the conversations between Washington and Teheran, the ambassador described the Islamic Republic as “one of the greatest, threats of world peace,” warning that it is serious and immediate existential threat Not only to Israel, but also several bay nations and at the end of the United States.
“The Iranians said Israel was” little Satan, “but America is” Great Satan. “Have always treated Israel as an appetizer and the United States as an entrance,” he said. “It is important when people tell you over and over 46 to plan to kill you, you might want to start taking them seriously.”
However, Huckabee expressed hope that the current nuclear negotiations between the two nations would be successful and avoid any military conflict.
US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee speaks with Fox News Digital during an interview at the US Embassy in Jerusalem, Israel. (Yoav Dudkevitch/ TPS-Il)
“But when diplomacy fails, the soldiers appear,” he said.
“It’s hard for me to believe Iranians, after all these years pushing toward the nuclear device This is armed, we would suddenly feel and say we changed. We don’t want it anymore, but let’s hope they are. But if they don’t, the president was incredibly clear that Iran would not have a nuclear weapon. “
In the war of Israel against the terrorist Hamas in the Gaza belt, he emphasized that suffering could end immediately – if Hamas decides to act.
“We all hope and we ask that Hamas will finally give up all the hostages and let them go, and then they will leave Gaza forever. If they do, this is over,” he said. “It could have ended on October 8, 2023. It was supposed to be. What they did was unthinkable, terrible, awful, uncivilized, savage behavior.”
French President Emmanuel Macron spoke with the media at the end of the EU summary in Justus Lipsius, EU Council headquarters, March 2, 2024 in Brussels, Belgium. (Thierry Bonasse/Getty Pictures)
Noted that President Donald Trump has repeatedly insisted on it Hamas has no future In Gaza. “I can’t rule it, I can’t stay,” Huckabee said.
“Israel was clear that they were ready to put them on planes and fly in exile, they have a way out, but they don’t have a way. They have to go, and all hostages living and dead have to come back,” he added.
Huckabee expressed hope that this would happen immediately.
In an interview with Fox News Digital on Thursday, he said about hostages: “This pin that I carry on the rever – one of the happiest days of my life will be when I can take this pin and permanently put it away, never wear it again, because it means that all hostages have returned home,” he said.
(LR) Foreign Minister Bahrain Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani, Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu, US President Donald Trump, and United Arab Emirates Minister Abdullah Bin -bin Sultan Al Nahyn, on the Director of the signature on the signature of Abrah DC He signed a peace contract with the UAE and a statement of the intention to conclude peace with Bahrein. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images.)
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He also expressed confidence in the odds expanding of Abraham’s agreementsforged during Trump’s first term, which normalized relations between Israel and four Arab countries: United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco.
Although he did not appoint new countries that deal with joining, Huckabee said: “There are a number of nations that now realize that it is pointless to have hostility with Israel,” he said. “It is a sensitive path for some countries; they cannot go faster than their people are willing to go and accept … but there is a great atmosphere and the possibility that we will see some dramatic changes and big accessories to Abraham’s agreements.”
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