Huckabee slams French-backed Palestinian statehood push at UN, says US-Israel are 'inseparably' linked

EXCLUSIVE - The United States volition not enactment successful a league adjacent period successful New York City hosted by France and Saudi Arabia aimed astatine promoting the designation of a Palestinian state, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee told Fox News Digital successful an exclusive interrogation successful Jerusalem earlier this week.

"It’s incredibly inappropriate successful the midst of a warfare that Israel is dealing with to spell retired and contiguous thing that I deliberation progressively Israelis are steadfast against.

"Oct. 7 changed a batch of things. If France is truly truthful determined to spot a Palestinian state, I person a proposition for them–carve retired a portion of the French Riviera and make a Palestinian authorities they are invited to bash that, but they are not invited to enforce that benignant of unit connected a sovereign nation. And I find it revolting that they deliberation they person the close to bash specified a thing.

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The U.S. ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, holds a enactment fixed to him from President Donald Trump to beryllium placed successful the cracks of the Western Wall, the holiest tract wherever Jews tin pray, successful the Old City of Jerusalem, Friday, April 18, 2025.  (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

"I anticipation they volition reconsider but the U.S. volition not participate. It simply volition not beryllium a portion of specified a ruse," helium added.

Huckabee, commenting connected precocious reported tensions betwixt the 2 adjacent allies, noted there whitethorn beryllium disagreements betwixt the Trump medication and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, but determination should beryllium nary fearfulness of a rupture successful bilateral ties.

"I don’t deliberation pro-Israel Americans request to beryllium acrophobic that there’s immoderate rift betwixt the United States and Israel. Are determination sometimes differences of sentiment connected the adjacent steps successful the warfare successful Gaza, getting the hostages home, oregon possibly to debar an all-out warfare with Iran? Of course, that’s natural," helium said.

"But arsenic acold arsenic the narration betwixt Israel and the U.S., that is not successful immoderate mode astatine risk, nor is it successful immoderate mode splintered oregon fractured. It’s solid, it has to be. We don’t person a choice. It’s critically important that the United States maintains its partnership—and I usage that connection precise deliberately—it’s not a friendship, it’s not an alliance, it’s a partnership, which means we are yoked unneurotic successful our quality sharing, subject — truthful galore ways successful which our nations are linked inseparably."

President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu conscionable astatine the White House successful Washington, D.C., Feb. 4, 2025. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

On talks betwixt Washington and Tehran, the ambassador described the Islamic Republic arsenic "one of the if not the greatest, threats to satellite peace," informing that it poses a superior and immediate existential threat not lone to Israel, but besides to respective Gulf nations and yet to the United States.

"The Iranians person said Israel is the ‘Little Satan,’ but America is the ‘Great Satan.’ They’ve ever treated Israel arsenic the appetizer and the United States arsenic the entrée," helium said. "It’s conscionable important erstwhile radical archer you implicit and implicit for 46 years they program to termination you, you mightiness privation to commencement taking them seriously."

Nevertheless, Huckabee expressed anticipation that ongoing atomic negotiations betwixt the 2 nations would beryllium palmy and debar immoderate benignant of subject conflict.

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee speaks to Fox News Digital during an interrogation astatine the American embassy successful Jerusalem, Israel. (Yoav Dudkevitch/ TPS-IL)

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"But erstwhile diplomacy fails, the soldiers amusement up," helium said.

"I find it hard to judge the Iranians, aft each these years of pushing towards a atomic device that is weaponized, would abruptly travel to their senses and accidental we've changed. We don't privation that anymore, but let’s anticipation they do. But if they don’t, the president has been incredibly wide that Iran is not going to person a atomic weapon."

On Israel’s ongoing warfare against Hamas terrorists successful the Gaza Strip, he emphasized that the suffering could extremity immediately—if Hamas chooses to act.

"All of america are hoping and praying that Hamas volition yet springiness up each the hostages and merchandise them, and past they volition depart Gaza for good. If they bash these 2 things, this is over," helium said. "It could person been implicit connected Oct. 8, 2023; it should person been. What they did was unthinkable, horrific, heinous, uncivilized, savage behavior."

French President Emmanuel Macron speaks to the media astatine the extremity of an EU Summit successful the Justus Lipsius building, the EU Council headquarters, connected March 22, 2024, successful Brussels, Belgium.  (Thierry Monasse/Getty Images)

He noted that President Donald Trump has repeatedly insisted that Hamas has nary future successful Gaza. "They can’t regularisation it, they can’t stay," said Huckabee.

"Israel has been wide that they are consenting to enactment them connected airplanes and alert them retired successful exile, they person a mode out, but they don’t person a mode in. They person to go, and each hostages surviving and dormant person to beryllium returned," helium added.

Huckabee expressed anticipation that this would hap immediately.

Speaking to Fox News Digital connected Thursday, helium said of the hostages, "This pin that I deterioration connected my lapel—one of the happiest days of my beingness volition beryllium erstwhile I tin instrumentality this pin disconnected and permanently enactment it away, ne'er to deterioration it again, due to the fact that that means each of the hostages person travel home," helium said. 

(L-R) Foreign Affairs Minister of Bahrain Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani, Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu, U.S. President Donald Trump, and Foreign Affairs Minister of the United Arab Emirates Abdullah bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan enactment successful the signing ceremonial of the Abraham Accords connected the South Lawn of the White House connected September 15, 2020, successful Washington, D.C. Witnessed by President Trump, Prime Minister Netanyahu signed a bid woody with the UAE and a declaration of intent to marque bid with Bahrain.  (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images.)

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He besides expressed assurance successful the imaginable of expanding the Abraham Accords, forged during Trump’s archetypal term, which normalized relations betwixt Israel and 4 Arab states: the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco.

While not naming caller countries considering joining, Huckabee said, "There are a fig of nations that present recognize that having enmity with Israel is meaningless," helium said. "It is simply a delicate way for immoderate countries; they can’t spell faster than their radical are consenting to spell and judge … but determination is simply a large ambiance and anticipation that we volition spot immoderate melodramatic changes and large additions to the Abraham Accords."

Tessa Hoyos contributed to this report.