Retired Army Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer said on Newsmax on Thursday that it is “insane” for the United States’ European allies to recognize a Palestinian state in the Middle East as the war between Israel and Hamas continues unabated.
“Let me ask a question to you in the audience: Do you think, if you as a people are worried about genocide, you should attack the very enemy who you think is going to commit genocide against you and murder their people and rape their people?” Shaffer told “The Chris Salcedo Show.” “That’s what Hamas did. That’s what the Palestinians have done. So, the idea here is that now, after the fact, the Europeans, and especially the U.K. and Canada, two of our closest allies, are considering recognizing and calling for a two-state solution is not only counterproductive, I would put it into the category of being insane.”
On Thursday, President Donald Trump said he differs with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s impending recognition of a Palestinian state, telling a joint press conference at Chequers, the prime minister’s estate, that he has “a disagreement” with Starmer “on that score.”
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