Mike Huckabee suggested any future Palestinian state should be carved out of ‘a Muslim country’

Mike Huckabee suggested any future Palestinian state should be carved out of ‘a Muslim country’

Mike Huckabee, the US ambassador to Israel, has said that the US is no longer pursuing the goal of an independent Palestinian state, marking what analysts describe as the most explicit abandonment yet of a cornerstone of US Middle East diplomacy.

Asked during an interview with Bloomberg News if a Palestinian state remains a goal of US policy, he replied: “I don’t think so.”

The former Arkansas governor chosen by Donald Trump as his envoy to Israel went further by suggesting that any future Palestinian entity could be carved out of “a Muslim country” rather than requiring Israel to cede territory.

  • deaf_fishEnglish
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    1 day ago

    No, I don’t take it personally and I would agree with you if you’re asserting these differences are cultural. Unless you’re saying this is genetic?

    Edit: cultural or a result of societal pressure. I don’t mean to imply that particular cultures are bad.

    • YappyMonotheist@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 day ago

      I was replying with the “what would you do with the information?” with that “I don’t take personally etc etc”! 😅 As in, I won’t take offence to ‘weird’ and seemingly antisocial behaviour, because I understand there’s some differences in personality between tribes (meaning whatever they’re giving me I need to reprocess accordingly). Perhaps, they have the tiniest bit of a genetic component (and are even harder/impossible to fully change, and hence why some of these differences and characteristics have been there seemingly forever). I mean, would that be that bad? Or does it really seem that far fetched?

      • deaf_fishEnglish
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        1 day ago

        Ah, sorry, I misunderstood.

        I mean if it’s a fun hobby of yours, go for it. But you know the history of this stuff as well as I do. It comes with a lot of baggage and people are not going to respond well to it. The group of people that will respond well to it, let’s just say, I don’t think you want to keep their company. Unless of course you are racist, in which case, you’d be fine.