Incoming Israeli ambassador Mike Huckabee assured that the Hamas terrorist group will cease to exist in the future, regardless of what the future holds for the Gaza Strip.
President Donald Trump has expressed interest in owning Gaza in its efforts to provide peace in this Middle East, a move that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has deemed “a remarkable idea.” In giving his take on the matter, Huckabee contended that the future of Gaza is currently unknown, but that its future will definitively not have Hamas in it, calling this “a done deal.”
“President Trump did something bold; he looked into the future and said kind of a ‘what if,’” Huckabee explained on Fox News’s Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo. “We don’t know exactly what might happen in Gaza, but here’s what could have happened in Gaza. Gaza could have been Singapore. Instead, Hamas turned it into Haiti and, in fact, maybe worse, far worse than that.”
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Huckabee then expressed hope people will “listen” to the president’s vision for Gaza, claiming that the only time “significant peace” was achieved in the Middle East was during Trump’s first term.
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Huckabee previously ran for president in 2016, and has since been nominated by Trump to be the nation’s ambassador to Israel. When asked when he will get confirmed, Huckabee stated he is being “patient” on this matter but hoped that it will take place soon.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has contended that Trump’s proposal for the United States to own Gaza stems from the president’s ability to think “outside the box.” Huckabee, meanwhile, suggested that Trump’s leadership “throws the box away” to start over from scratch.
