US says Muslim nations should free up land for Palestinian state

The US Ambassador to Israel has proposed that Muslim nations should let some of their territory be used to form a Palestinian state, the BBC reported on June 10th.

The ambassador, Mike Huckabee, stressed that Muslim nations have “644 times the amount of land that are controlled by Israel.” Huckabee suggested that if the urgency for a Palestinian state is so pressing, a country should say “we’d like to host it.”

Huckabee also criticised the UK and Australia for issuing sanctions on two far-right ministers from Israel, due to “repeated incitements of violence against” Palestinians. The ambassador added that a two-state solution to the Gaza war is “aspirational.”

BBC