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Tuesday, June 10, 2025
Peace Now lambastes US envoy’s comments on Palestinian state: Trying to ‘realize his religious fantasies’
Jeremy Sharon is The Times of Israel’s legal affairs and settlements reporter
The dovish Peace Now organization lambastes US Ambassador Mike Huckabee over his comments that the US no longer fully supports the establishment of a Palestinian State, accusing him of seeking to “realize his religious fantasies,” in reference to his strong association with the Evangelical movement.
“After intervening in internal Israeli politics yesterday, today Mike Huckabee turned himself into the spokesperson for [Bezalel] Smotrich and [Orit] Strok,” Peace Now, which advocates for a two-state solution, says in response to the ambassador’s comments, as well as his reported efforts on Monday to stop the ultra-Orthodox parties voting to dissolve the Knesset.
“This is not an ambassador, this is an Evangelist who is dreaming of the war of Gog and Magog in the Middle East in order to realize his religious fantasies,” continues the organization in reference to Biblical prophecies about the end of days.
“It can only be hoped that President Trump will prove that he is a friend of Israel, repudiate the comments of the ambassador, which contradict the position of the US, his vision for the region, and the Israeli interest.”
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