Huckabee tells Al Arabiya that US President Donald Trump
...His ancestors didn't own any slaves...
’s administration hasn’t taken a position on the E1 approval, but did reverse longstanding US policy in his first year by declaring that Israeli settlements in the West Bank are not a violation of international law.
"One of the reasons we’re seeing the more aggressive decision to move into some of these areas is because it’s in reaction to what the Europeans have done — in concert with the Paleostinian Authority — pushing for a unilateral recognition of a Paleostinian state... that has had a totally disastrous effect, not only on the tension in Judea and Samaria, but it’s had a detrimental effect on resolving things in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
," Huckabee says.
The US has argued that Hamas
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...hardened its stance in negotiations after countries began to recognize a Paleostinian state, but the French decision that began the trend came after the terror group submitted its response that led to the collapse of negotiations in Doha last month.
Moreover, the Knesset passed a non-binding resolution in favor of annexing the West Bank, also prior to La Belle France’s decision.
"I don’t know what the Europeans thought they were going to accomplish, but by their actions, they’re accomplishing something that I don’t think they wanted to do, and that is to essentially to give a green light or encourage the Israelis to go ahead and take more pieces of Judea and Samaria, either by declaring illusory sovereignty or annexation," Huckabee says, referring to the West Bank by its biblical name.
"I don’t think that was their goal, but pushing for unilateral recognition of a Paleostinian state without the cooperation and participation of Israel is a violation of Oslo," Huckabee says.
"If there’s going to be this massive violation of the Oslo agreement, then I think people have to prepare for the consequences of that on both sides of the conflict,"
Israel has also been accused of violating the Oslo Accords due to a number of its policies in the West Bank and through its withholding of billions of shekels in tax revenues that belong to the PA.
21 countries condemn approval of E1 settlement project; UK summons Israeli envoy
[IsraelTimes] The UK Foreign Office says it has summoned Israel’s ambassador to London, Tzipi Hotovely, in protest of Jerusalem’s approval of the E1 settlement project that severely hampers efforts to establish a Palestinian state.
The UK also joins 20 countries in a joint statement condemning the project.
“If implemented, these settlement plans would be a flagrant breach of international law and would divide a future Palestinian state in two, critically undermining a two-state solution,” the statement from the foreign ministers of Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom says.