In a blistering online tirade, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee tore into French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday following Macron�s announcement that France will formally recognize a Palestinian state in September�regardless of ongoing negotiations or Israel�s security concerns.
�How clever!� Huckabee wrote on X. �If Macron can just �declare� the existence of a state, perhaps the UK can �declare� France a British colony!�
The sarcasm didn�t stop there. In a follow-up post dripping with mockery, Huckabee took aim at the lack of geographical specificity in Macron�s plan. �Macron�s unilateral �declaration� of a �Palestinian� state didn�t say WHERE it would be,� he wrote. �I can now exclusively disclose that France will offer the French Riviera, & the new nation will be called �Franc-en-Stine.��
The ambassador�s comments mark an unusually sharp rebuke from a U.S. official directed at a key Western ally, underscoring growing tensions between the Trump administration�s Israel policy team and European leaders pushing unilateral moves on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
While Huckabee�s remarks were clearly intended to ridicule Macron�s move, they also reflect broader concerns in Jerusalem and Washington that European recognition of a Palestinian state�absent a negotiated peace agreement�undermines Israel�s diplomatic leverage, rewards Palestinian terrorism, and emboldens terrorist entities like Hamas.
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France (Normandy) actually was a British colony, and England was a French (Norman) colony, at various times during the Middle Ages. The big ‘peace lovers’ fought a ‘Hundred Year War’ to settle that issue. France itself almost became an Arab/Muslim colony, until stopped by Charles Martel in the 8th century. Now the Arab invasion of France is picking up where they left off…