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US envoy says France can ‘carve’ Palestinian state out of Riviera
Mike Huckabee, the US’s ambassador to Israel, has lashed out at France’s advocacy for recognition of a Palestinian state ahead of a UN conference aimed at resurrecting the idea of a two-state solution.
France is co-chairing that conference along with Saudi Arabia this month. It also says it could recognise a Palestinian state itself this year.
Huckabee, in an interview with Fox News, called the initiative at the UN “incredibly inappropriate when Israel is in the midst of a war”. “October 7 changed a lot of things,” he said.
“If France is really so determined to see a Palestinian state, I’ve got a suggestion for them — carve out a piece of the French Riviera and create a Palestinian state. They are welcome to do that, but they are not welcome to impose that kind of pressure on a sovereign nation.”
What part of occupied territory does Huckabee not understand. And indeed Oct 7 changed a lot of things, the reaction to it exposed Israel as well as the US to the world.
UK PM Starmer says situation in Gaza ‘getting worse by the day’
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer says the situation in Gaza is getting “worse by the day” and that it is important to ensure the Palestinian enclave receives more humanitarian aid urgently.
“The situation is intolerable in Gaza, and getting worse by the day,” Starmer told reporters in Scotland, when asked whether the UK would take any action over the issue.
“Which is why we are working with allies … to be absolutely clear that humanitarian aid needs to get in at speed and at volumes that it is not getting in at the moment, causing absolute devastation,” he added.
