According to US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, there is a ‘complication’ when Palestinians want their own state on their own land. Speaking during an interview with Bloomberg, Huckabee undoubtedly awarded Israel with further impunity for its ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people, when severing the link between Palestinians and their land, as US foreign policy has been doing for decades.

Asked if the US envisages a Palestinian state, Huckabee replied, “I don’t believe anyone can say ‘it’s impossible, it’ll never happen’ — but if someone wants to declare that this is the exact strip of geography that is going to be the future Palestinian state, that’s where the complication comes from.”

Pressed for clarification, Huckabee elaborated, “Israel has a little, narrow strip of real estate.” Comparing the settler-colonial entity to “Muslim-controlled countries”, he stated, “So when people say ‘Israel has to give something’, you kind........

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