Washington does not fully back a Palestinian state under the current circumstances, US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee says.
“Unless there are some significant things that happen that change the culture, there’s no room for it,” Huckabee tells Bloomberg News, adding that the changes are unlikely to occur “in our lifetime.”
He adds that he doesn’t think that a Palestinian state is still a goal of US policy.
A Palestinian state does not need to be established in the West Bank, the ambassador argues, insisting that it could be created by taking territory from a Muslim country.
Huckabee, 69, has been one of the evangelical Christian community’s most ardent supporters of Israel. He has called Israel’s claim to the West Bank stronger than American ties to Manhattan and laid bricks in 2018 as ground was broken on a new housing complex in the settlement of Efrat.
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