The Israeli ambassador in Washington added that the United States does not truly support an independent nation for Palestinians, and could be elsewhere in the region, not in the West Bank.
“Unless there’s a few important things that change the culture, there’s no room for that,” President Donald Trump’s appointee Mike Huckabee said in an interview with Al Kud’s Bloomberg (Jerusalem). They probably won’t happen “in our lives,” he added.
When asked whether the Palestinian state is a US policy goal for the last 20 years, he said: “I don’t think so.”
Regarding location, Huckabee suggested that instead of asking Israel to make rooms, the land could be carved from the Muslim country. “Does it need to be in Judea and Samaria?” The 69-year-old Huckabee, using the name of the Bible, uses the Israeli government to benefit the West Bank, where around 3 million Palestinians live under occupation.
Palestinians claim that Israel made the formation of a state nearly impossible by building increasingly larger Jewish settlements on the West Bank and weakening Palestinian authorities, but it rarely stops settler violence against Palestinians.