Israeli occupation Trump chooses as ambassador to Israel a Christian Zionist who defends the occupation of Gaza – El Salto

Ten days after the Republican victory in the presidential elections, the formation of Donald Trump’s government team is moving forward. “There is really no such thing as a Palestinian. (Palestinian identity) has been a political tool to try to take land from Israel,” is one of the phrases supported by the new US ambassador to Israel, former governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee.

As they defined him, he is a prominent “Christian Zionist”. Democracy now!Which in recent years has dedicated itself to organizing trips to evangelistic fields in Israel and other parts of the world. Huckabee has publicly defended Israel’s occupation of the occupied territories and the Gaza Strip.

In 2017, Huckabee denied the reality of Israel’s occupied territories and settlements declared illegal by the United Nations in the West Bank and East Jerusalem in statements to Politico: “There is no such thing as a compromise. (What there is) are communities, neighborhoods and cities. There is no such thing as business.”

The next US Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, has publicly defended Israel’s occupation of the occupied territories and the Gaza Strip.

With this appointment, Trump will take the United States’ unconditional support for Benjamin Netanyahu’s policies a step further. On December 6, 2017, in the first year of his first term, Donald Trump decided to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of the State of Israel and ordered the move of the embassy from Tel Aviv to the holy city. That decision – which was not corrected by the Democratic government of Joe Biden – was interpreted as an unprecedented blow to decades of diplomacy and multilateral efforts to move toward a resolution of the conflict.

As special envoy for the Middle East, Trump has nominated “his lifelong friend and golf partner,” Steve Witkoff. as mentioned Democracy now!Witkoff is a Florida real estate investor with no foreign policy experience.

This November 13, another important part of his future government team was also known after Trump’s provisional appointment of far-right Congressman Matt Gaetz as Attorney General. According to CNN, Gaetz, the Republican representative from Florida, has been investigated for multiple crimes involving sex trafficking and embezzlement, an investigation that could dictate whether he is ultimately elected to office. It didn’t take long for criticism to rise, even among Republican ranks, who recognized that it was not, in the words of Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, a “serious” option. Conservative politician John Bolton called the idea “the worst appointment to a cabinet position in the history of the United States.” The Attorney General’s appointment must be confirmed by the Senate.

To complete the Cabinet, Trump has also promised to add the planet’s richest man, Tesla and Twitter/X owner Elon Musk, to his government team. The South African tycoon will head the Department for Government Efficiency (DOGE) from where he promises to “shake up the system”.