Mike Huckabee, officially the U.S. ambassador to Israel, has endorsed the Israeli theft of land that Palestinians have lived on for generations. He told Israeli Army Radio on Aug. 18 that “massive” Israeli development of the occupied West Bank was not a violation of international law and the U.S. would not oppose it, reported Middle East Eye.
While Huckabee’s comments reportedly referred to the occupied Palestinian territory in totality, he also specifically addressed the proposed settlement of the E1 area of occupied Jerusalem. “Whether or not there should be massive development in E1 is a decision for the government of Israel to make,” he said. “We would not try to evaluate the good and the bad of that, but simply just say that, as a general rule, it is not a violation of international law.”
“It’s also, I think, incumbent on all of us to recognize that Israelis have a right to live in Israel,” he added.
