In a blistering online tirade, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee tore into French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday following Macron’s announcement that France will formally recognize a Palestinian state in September—regardless of ongoing negotiations or Israel’s security concerns. “How clever!” Huckabee wrote on X. “If Macron can just ‘declare’ the existence of a state, perhaps the UK can ‘declare’ France a British colony!” The sarcasm didn’t stop there. In a follow-up post dripping with mockery, Huckabee took aim at the lack of geographical specificity in Macron’s plan. “Macron’s unilateral ‘declaration’ of a ‘Palestinian’ state didn’t say WHERE it would be,” he wrote. “I can now exclusively disclose that France will offer the French Riviera, & the new nation will be called ‘Franc-en-Stine.’” The ambassador’s comments mark an unusually sharp rebuke from a U.S. official directed at a key Western ally, underscoring growing tensions between the Trump administration’s Israel policy team and European leaders pushing unilateral moves on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. While Huckabee’s remarks were clearly intended to ridicule Macron’s move, they also reflect broader concerns in Jerusalem and Washington that European recognition of a Palestinian state—absent a negotiated peace agreement—undermines Israel’s diplomatic leverage, rewards Palestinian terrorism, and emboldens terrorist entities like Hamas. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)  | Read More The Yeshiva World