"It’s not just the unhinged murderous settler thugs & the Israeli genocidal army that are Israel’s weapon of choice in Palestine & throughout the region; the American army & administration are clearly the most accommodating & lethal weapon that carries out Israel’s bidding in our region to re-engineer the whole area to suit Israel’s “security” & hegemonic designs." Dr Hanan Ashrawi

Dr. Hanan Ashrawi

 Hanan Ashrawi

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It’s not just the unhinged murderous settler thugs & the Israeli genocidal army that are Israel’s weapon of choice in Palestine & throughout the region; the American army & administration are clearly the most accommodating & lethal weapon that carries out Israel’s bidding in our region to re-engineer the whole area to suit Israel’s “security” & hegemonic designs.

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The article by Adam Raz from the

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Institute published today in Haaretz proves, once again, what we have been crying out for decades: the Nakba is not a “narrative”, it is a historical truth of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and plunder. To our shame and horror, this is an ongoing history, not only the past but also the present. Recognition of the crimes and a just solution for the victims are not only a moral demand, but also a necessary recipe for shared life between the two peoples.  https://x.com/ofercass/status/2027480502785941964

 

Mike Huckabee lifts the veil on US backing for Israeli expansionism: His interview with Tucker Carlson did not merely expose a diplomat's worldview. It illuminated a dangerous regional project

Soumaya Ghannoushi

26 February 2026 

 

When Tucker Carlson recently interviewed the US ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, their exchange did more than expose policy differences. 

It revealed something more consequential: not merely an ambassador misrepresenting history, but a vision of Israel’s place in the Middle East, and of Washington’s role in enabling it.

A pattern emerged quickly. When confronted with inconvenient historical facts or legal complexities, Huckabee professed uncertainty. But when repeating familiar Israeli government positions, his confidence was unwavering. Precision disappeared only when it complicated the narrative.

Consider his claim that Christians are “thriving” in the Holy Land. He cited 34,000 Christians in Israel in 1948 and 184,000 today, figures intended to suggest steady growth and protection.

But numbers without context are a distortion. In December 1946, the United Nations estimated that there were approximately 145,000 Christians in Palestine, representing around eight percent of the country’s total population. 

During the 1948 Nakba, Jewish militias expelled or drove out hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, including roughly 90,000 Christians. Only around 39,000 remained in their homes within 1948 borders, the nucleus of today’s Palestinian Christian minority inside Israel.

Jerusalem’s demographic trajectory is equally stark. Christians constituted around 20 percent of the city’s population in 1946. Since then, their numbers have declined significantly; by 2006, they accounted for roughly two percent of the city’s population, according to demographic data published by the Jerusalem Institute for Policy Research.

To describe this as “thriving” obscures the increasingly precarious position of Palestinian Christians within a state that defines itself in explicitly Jewish national terms, and where ultra-nationalist currents have grown more assertive.

Defining moments

The evasiveness extended beyond demography. Huckabee claimed that Britain controlled Palestine at the time of the 1917 Balfour Declaration. It did not. The declaration preceded the mandate system and carried no binding force in international law; it was an imperial pledge, not a legal instrument.

He further implied that Arabs initiated the 1956 Suez War. The record is unequivocal: Israel invaded Egypt in coordination with Britain and France. Former US President Dwight D Eisenhower publicly opposed the invasion and forced their withdrawal, contributing to the resignation of his British counterpart, Anthony Eden.

In 1982, during Israel’s invasion of Lebanon and the bombardment of Beirut, former US President Ronald Reagan deliberately used the word “holocaust” in a call with Israeli leader Menachem Begin, warning that the assault endangered the future of relations between Washington and Tel Aviv.

These are not marginal details. They are defining moments in American foreign policy. Misrepresenting them does not merely obscure history; it reshapes political memory.

It was equally striking to watch Huckabee cite Gaza health ministry figures - numbers he elsewhere disputes - to argue that... READ MORE   https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/mike-huckabee-lifts-veil-us-backing-israeli-expansionism

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