Huckabee Suggests Relocation of Palestinian State to Muslim Countries Amid Controversy

 

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee suggested that Muslim-majority nations should consider offering land to host a future Palestinian state, arguing that such countries possess vast swaths of territory compared to Israel. “Muslim countries have 644 times the amount of land that are controlled by Israel,” Huckabee said during an interview with the BBC. “So maybe, if there is such a desire for the Palestinian state, there would be someone who would say, we’d like to host it.”

 

His comments have added fresh controversy to an already tense geopolitical landscape. Huckabee also dismissed the long-supported two-state solution as merely "an aspirational goal." The idea, widely endorsed by the international community and multiple U.S. administrations, envisions a sovereign Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza with East Jerusalem as its capital, existing peacefully alongside Israel. However, Huckabee indicated that the U.S. is no longer pursuing that vision. In a separate conversation with Bloomberg, he said bluntly that the U.S. had moved away from that goal.

 

State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce clarified that Huckabee's statements were his own and do not represent official U.S. policy. “It is the president who is responsible for U.S. policy in the Middle East,” she stated.

 

Later this month, France and Saudi Arabia will co-host a United Nations conference in New York aimed at laying the groundwork for a potential Palestinian state. Huckabee criticized the effort, calling it "ill-timed and inappropriate," and argued that such actions could compromise Israel’s security. “It’s also something that is completely wrongheaded for European states to try to impose in the middle of a war,” he said. “At what point does it have to be in the same piece of real estate that Israel occupies? I think that’s a question that ought to be posed to everybody who’s pushing for a two-state solution.”

 

Asked whether the U.S. position excludes the West Bank as a viable location for a future Palestinian state, Huckabee refrained from issuing an outright denial but offered a cultural critique instead. “I wouldn’t say there can never be, what I would say is that a culture would have to change,” he explained. “Right now the culture is that it’s OK to target Jews and kill them and you’re rewarded for it. That has to change.”

 

Huckabee, a longtime proponent of a “greater Israel” that includes full Israeli sovereignty over the West Bank—referred to by biblical terms like “Judea and Samaria”—has often echoed sentiments popular among Israeli ultranationalist circles. Some in that movement, including far-right members of Israel’s current coalition government, advocate for the expulsion of Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza, proposing instead that a Palestinian state be established in other Arab or Muslim countries. International law experts and human rights groups warn that such a proposal would be a direct violation of international norms.

 

Huckabee also condemned the decision by U.S. allies including the UK, Australia, Canada, Norway, and New Zealand to impose sanctions on two far-right Israeli ministers: National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich. The sanctions were introduced in response to the ministers’ alleged incitement of violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. British Foreign Secretary David Lammy said the two officials had "incited extremist violence and serious abuses of Palestinian human rights." The sanctions include travel bans and asset freezes.

 

Calling the move a "shocking decision," Huckabee expressed strong opposition. The backdrop to these developments remains the ongoing war in Gaza, which began in October 2023 after Hamas launched a deadly attack on Israel, killing around 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages. Today, 56 hostages are still believed to be held by Hamas in Gaza, with at least 20 thought to be alive.

 

  Adapted by ASEAN Now from BBC  2025-06-12

 

 

Why don't the Israelis move to  New York and Washington DC  and let the Palestinians have their land back ?

The U.S. Ambassador to Israel openly proposes ethnic cleansing while offering up this hypocrisy:

 

3 minutes ago, Social Media said:

At what point does it have to be in the same piece of real estate that Israel occupies? I think that’s a question that ought to be posed to everybody who’s pushing for a two-state solution.”

And:

 

12 minutes ago, Social Media said:

Huckabee, a longtime proponent of a “greater Israel” that includes full Israeli sovereignty over the West Bank

 

7 minutes ago, johng said:

Why don't the Israelis move to  New York and Washington DC  and let the Palestinians have their land back ?

Israel is a sovereign state in which its citizens have the absolute right to exist in peace.

 

Another form of ethnic cleansing is not a solution to the one being proposed by the U.S. Ambassador to Israel.

 Israel's population is 70.81% larger than the population of State of Palestine. Makes sense to move the smaller population. Unlikely to happen as Palestinians are too annoying for many Arab states to handle.

6 minutes ago, johng said:

Why don't the Israelis move to  New York and Washington DC  and let the Palestinians have their land back ?

 

It was never Palestinian land. Do you know why they are called Arabs? It is because they come from  the Arabian peninsula,  the land where Saudi Arabia is located today. The Arabs migrated into the land  that was settled by the Hebrews  and that land had various names, Israel, Judea, Sumeria. Jews  have that name because of their association with Judea. Jewish people and Israel were in the region long before Islam was invented. Christians were in the region long before Islam was invented.  The arab people who were prominent in the area were Bedouins. When the  arab migrants arrived, they took the Bedouin  grazing lands and claimed it for themselves. The arab migrants also chased off the   hebrews/Israelites because they wanted what they had.

Then the Romans came and screwed things up, and then the Turks came and screwed over everyone, especially the Arabs. 

8 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Israel is a sovereign state in which its citizens have the absolute right to exist in peace.

 

Another form of ethnic cleansing is not a solution to the one being proposed by the U.S. Ambassador to Israel.

And do they have the right to protect their country from those that would kill them?

2 minutes ago, mogandave said:

And do they have the right to protect their country from those that would kill them?

Erm yes, within the bounds of international law.

 

Just like every other nation state.

Muslim countries would never accept Palestinians in their territory, not as settlers nor refugees.  They have made that very clear for decades.

 

Now I wonder what they know that's created this POV... ?

No Arab state wants these people, Lebanon took in many refugees and it is no longer a predominantly Christian country. Many non-Muslim people had to leave. Egypt certainly doesn't want them. 

3 minutes ago, simon43 said:

Muslim countries would never accept Palestinians in their territory, not as settlers nor refugees.  They have made that very clear for decades.

 

Now I wonder what they know that's created this POV... ?

You need to update your grasp of Palestinian refugees in other neighboring nations.

 

4 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Erm yes, within the bounds of international law.

 

Just like every other nation state.

Israel is not a party  to the international court. 

 

In any event, they are only killing people that are trying to kill them.

Just repeating what Trump suggested earlier. Fat chance for any country in the region to go for it; not even Jordan...

4 minutes ago, StayinThailand2much said:

Just repeating what Trump suggested earlier. Fat chance for any country in the region to go for it; not even Jordan...

Send them to New York, they love them.

What this incredibly ignorant imbecile doesn't seem to understand is that Palestinians do not want to be relocated, and there's not a single Muslim nation that is willing to accept them. It's just a futile Trump and Netanyahu pipe dream that has no basis in reality, coming from a man who does not know very much about anything at all. 

1 minute ago, spidermike007 said:

What this incredibly ignorant imbecile doesn't seem to understand is that Palestinians do not want to be relocated, and there's not a single Muslim nation that is willing to accept them. It's just a futile Trump and Netanyahu pipe dream that has no basis in reality, coming from a man who does not know very much about anything at all. 

Not quite the case.

 

Almost half of Gaza Palestinians willing to ask Israel to help them leave — poll

The survey found that 49 percent of respondents would be willing to apply to Israel to help them emigrate via Israeli ports and airports, versus 50% who said they would not be willing to do so.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/almost-half-of-gaza-palestinians-willing-to-ask-israel-to-help-them-leave-poll/

That is an excellent idea by His Holiness the Reverend Huckabee. I wonder why nobody has suggested it before?

3 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

Not quite the case.

 

Almost half of Gaza Palestinians willing to ask Israel to help them leave — poll

The survey found that 49 percent of respondents would be willing to apply to Israel to help them emigrate via Israeli ports and airports, versus 50% who said they would not be willing to do so.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/almost-half-of-gaza-palestinians-willing-to-ask-israel-to-help-them-leave-poll/

It’s Hamas, Iran, and the left that does not want them to relocate, Perhaps after Israel has been eradicated.

Is this the man who said there is no such thing as a Palestinian ?