Huckabee: No Palestinian state likely ‘in our lifetime’

Asked if an independent Palestinian state is the goal of the Trump administration, Huckabee responded: “I don’t think so.”

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U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee holds a press conference at the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem, May 9, 2025. Credit: Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90.

( Jun. 11, 2025 / JNS )  A Palestinian state in Judea and Samaria probably won’t happen “in our lifetime” and is no longer Washington’s goal, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee said on Tuesday.

“Unless there are some significant things that happen that change the culture, there’s no room for it,” Huckabee told Bloomberg, adding that a culture shift is unlikely to take place “in our lifetime.”

Un paso con peso histórico: Israel aprueba sede permanente para la embajada de EE.UU. en Jerusalén

En un movimiento que refuerza décadas de alianza estratégica, Israel aprobó la asignación de terrenos en el Complejo Allenby, en Jerusalén, para la construcción de una embajada permanente de los Estados Unidos, consolidando así un símbolo duradero de la relación entre ambos países.

El anuncio fue realizado conjuntamente por el primer ministro Benjamin Netanyahu, el ministro de Asuntos Exteriores Gideon Sa’ar y el ministro de Construcción y Vivienda Haim Katz, quienes calificaron la iniciativa como un “gran movimiento diplomático”.

Las autoridades israelíes subrayaron que este paso tiene sus raíces en la “decisión valiente e histórica” del entonces presidente Donald Trump, quien durante su primer mandato reconoció a Jerusalén como capital de Israel y trasladó la embajada estadounidense a la ciudad.

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US Amb Huckabee: Decision whether to strike Iran is up to Israel, Hamas has no future in Gaza

US won’t pressure Israel to accept Turkish troops in Gaza, Huckabee vows.

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee in an interview with Kan News (Photo: Screenshot)

Israel and the United States are discussing possible military actions against the Iranian regime, but will decide how to proceed based on their own interests, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee told Kan News in a wide-ranging interview touching on the U.S. positions on most security issues currently facing Israel.

Iran, which is embroiled in massive popular protests, remains the most significant danger to Israel’s security. Israeli media have extensively reported on concerns that the regime could attempt to divert attention by attacking Israel, or that Israel might use the situation to accelerate the regime’s collapse.

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‘God’s promise is eternal’: PM Netanyahu, Marco Rubio & Amb Huckabee inaugurate ‘Pilgrimage Road’ in Jerusalem’s City of David

Jerusalem ‘is our city forever, there will be no Palestinian state’, says Netanyahu.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee and their wives at the inauguration of the ‘Pilgrimage Road’ in Jerusalem’s City of David, Sept. 15, 2025. (Photo: Haim Zach/GPO)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Ambassador Mike Huckabee inaugurated the Pilgrimage Road, the ancient street leading to the Temple in the time of Jesus, in Jerusalem’s City of David on Monday.

The 2,000-year-old road had served pilgrims ascending to the Temple from the south, and had been excavated in a lengthy and controversial process, as the

Huckabee: US never asked Israel not to annex Judea, Samaria

The American ambassador shot down reports saying the Trump administration asked Jerusalem not to advance sovereignty at this time.

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U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee speaks in Shiloh, in the Binyamin region of Samaria, on May 8, 2025. Credit: Ancient Shiloh/Facebook.

(Sept. 6, 2025 / JNS)  “The United States has never asked Israel not to apply sovereignty” in Judea and Samaria, Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee told broadcaster Channel 14 on Friday.

Huckabee’s statement came on the backdrop of Hebrew-language reports claiming that Washington asked Jerusalem not to advance policies that could cause harm the stability of the Palestinian Authority.

Embajador de EE.UU. en Israel, tras visitar un punto de la GHF: “Es una hazaña increíble”

Huckabee y Witkoff en Gaza. Foto: Emb. EEUU en Israel.

El embajador de Estados Unidos en Israel, Mike Huckabee, aseguró que los puntos de reparto de comida de la estadounidense Fundación Humanitaria para Gaza (GHF) son una “hazaña increíble”.

“Esta mañana me uní a Steve Witkoff (el enviado de la Casa Blanca en Oriente Medio) en una visita a Gaza para conocer la verdad sobre los centros de ayuda de GHF. Recibimos información del Ejército israelí y hablamos con la gente sobre el terreno. GHF entrega más de un millón de comidas al día, ¡una hazaña increíble!”, escribió Huckabee en la red social X.

¡Cuidado, comunidad internacional! Los judíos no quemaron la iglesia

El embajador de Estados Unidos en Israel, Mike Huckabee, al igual que muchos en los medios de comunicación y la comunidad internacional, no parece estar familiarizado con la arraigada práctica palestina de difundir mentiras e invenciones con el fin de vilipendiar a Israel y demonizar a los judíos. 

En la imagen: Huckabee es guiado en una visita a la Iglesia de San Jorge en Taybeh, por el alcalde de la aldea, Suleiman Khourieh (izq.), y otros, el 19 de julio de 2025. (Foto de Jaafar Ashtiyyeh/AFP vía Getty Images)

La semana pasada, el embajador de Estados Unidos en Israel, Mike Huckabee, visitó la aldea cristiana palestina de Taybeh, en la región de Binyamin, en la Ribera Occidental, donde los líderes locales le informaron de que colonos judíos habían quemado la antigua Iglesia de San Jorge. Sin embargo, no hay pruebas de que

Thank you, Amb. Huckabee & PM Netanyahu, for decisive action to ‘fully resolve’ serious tensions Israel’s Interior Ministry was creating with Evangelicals

Here’s how a potential crisis was averted.

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U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Credit: Reuters & Shutterstock. Edited by All Israel News staff

DENVER, COLORADO – I’m writing my column today in praise of U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Why?

Because they worked together effectively to resolve serious tensions that were building between Israel’s Ministry of the Interior (MOI) and American Evangelical Christians.

This matter should never have required the Prime Minister’s attention.

Netanyahu antes de irse a Estados Unidos: “Nunca tuvimos un amigo así en la Casa Blanca”

Netanyahu aborda el avión presidencial este domingo para una reunión con el presidente de los Estados Unidos, Trump, en Washington. “Nunca tuvimos un amigo así en la Casa Blanca. Este apoyo condujo a una tremenda victoria sobre nuestro rival, Irán”.

El primer ministro Benjamin Netanyahu habló con la prensa el domingo antes de partir para una reunión con el presidente de los Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, en Washington, DC.

“Me dirijo a una visita muy importante a Washington, donde me reuniré con el presidente Trump. Esta es mi quinta reunión con el Presidente desde que fue elegido, y también me reuniré con altos funcionarios de la administración y representantes de ambos partidos. Agradeceré al presidente Trump por su fuerte apoyo a Israel. Nunca hubo un amigo así en la Casa Blanca. Este apoyo condujo a una tremenda victoria sobre nuestro rival, Irán”, declaró Netanyahu.

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Is the government using the housing crisis to drive the settlement movement?

As home ownership inside the State of Israel climbs out of reach, Israelis flock to West Bank settlements — and receive generous government support.

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Aerial view of Ma'ale Adumim, a West Bank settlement outside of Jerusalem, February 25, 2025. (Oren Cohen/Flash90)

When Tova Dvorin moved to the West Bank settlement of Ariel from Jerusalem in 2013, she didn’t anticipate that she’d be living there 12 years later.

“We originally came for my husband’s physical therapy studies at the university. I thought it would be temporary,” said Dovrin, a 35-year-old mother of three, as she sipped her iced coffee at a quiet cafe in Ariel on an unseasonably warm May day.

Israel should annex at least part of Judea and Samaria

Mike Huckabee, Trump’s pick for ambassador to Israel, is “someone who has a long record of being vocally supportive of annexation.”

Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee (left), MK Danny Danon (center) and former Kansas Governor Sam Brownback (right) at Kibbutz Kfar Aza, Dec. 20, 2023. Credit: Courtesy.

(March 25, 2025 / JNS)  Israel’s strength stems from its people, but its continued presence on the Jewish nation’s historic homeland is vastly important as well—both from a security as well as a nationalistic perspective.

With a deeply pro-Israel U.S. administration currently in the White House under President Donald Trump’s second term, the question many Israelis have today is whether Israel will annex any part of Judea or Samaria.

Israel 'number 1 priorty' for Trump – Evangelical advisor Mike Evans

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Huckabee: Report of US recognition of Palestinian state ‘nonsense’

“Israel doesn’t have a better friend than the president of the United States,” the ambassador wrote on X.

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U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee at the JNS International Policy Summit in Jerusalem on April 28, 2025. Photo by Hillel Maeir.

(May 11, 2025 / JNS)  Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee slammed on Saturday a report by The Jerusalem Post citing a “Gulf diplomatic source” saying that President Donald Trump is set to declare U.S. recognition of a Palestinian state “without the presence of Hamas.”

The original reporting was by Ali Hussain in The Media Line and reprinted by The Jerusalem Post.

Huckabee: No hay distanciamiento entre Israel y EE. UU.

Israel no participará en la distribución de ayuda en Gaza, declaró el embajador estadounidense Mike Huckabee el viernes por la mañana.

Huckabee también rechazó la idea de que Washington se estuviera distanciando de sus estrechos vínculos con Jerusalén o que intentara eludir al gobierno israelí, describiendo las relaciones como muy estrechas, al día siguiente de que un informe afirmara que la administración Trump ya no exige que Arabia Saudita reconozca a Israel como parte de un pacto nuclear con Riad.

“Con Trump, la relación especial nunca ha sido más sólida”, declaró a la prensa en la Embajada de Estados Unidos en Jerusalén.

Añadió que Israel participará en la seguridad de la Franja de Gaza. La seguridad privada será responsable de garantizar la seguridad de los trabajadores y de distribuir los alimentos.

Trump in Riyadh: Will Israeli sovereignty over parts of Judea and Samaria once again be the sacrifice for peace?

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, U.S. President Donald Trump, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman and Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Abdulaziz, Deputy Governor of Riyadh Region, meet in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, May 13, 2025. (REUTERS/Brian Snyder)

U.S. President Donald Trump’s Saudi Arabia visit has sparked speculation that he could give a nod in the direction of Palestinian statehood in Judea and Samaria, precisely as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears to be reviving the possibility of Israeli sovereignty over portions of that territory.

Speaking before a closed-door Knesset committee on Sunday, Israel Hayom reported that Netanyahu said Israel could annex 30% of Judea and Samaria in the near future, while granting autonomy to the Palestinian Authority in other parts of that region, known as Areas A and B.

New US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee speaks after visiting Western Wall in Jerusalem

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