Mike Huckabee, U.S. ambassador to Israel, praised President Donald Trump on Newsmax on Thursday for bluntly telling French President Emmanuel Macron that recognizing a Palestinian state while Hamas, which is backed by Iran, still holds Israeli hostages is tantamount to rewarding terrorism.
Huckabee told “Rob Schmitt Tonight” that Trump’s public rebuke Tuesday of Macron on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly was powerful and necessary.
“It was one of the great moments,” Huckabee said. “The president was sitting with Macron and says to his face that what you’re doing … is only rewarding Hamas and forgetting Oct. 7 [2023 attack on Israel]. Macron sat there like an 8-year-old boy who had broken a window with a baseball and had been caught at it. It was just a great move.”
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