U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee says the White House has expressed a strong level of disappointment towards Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s official pledge to recognise a Palestinian state.
Huckabee says all nations that have declared support for a Palestinian state have done so at the wrong time.
In Albanese’s case, he previously vowed to wait for assurances that terror group Hamas would not be involved in a future Palestinian government.
“The U.S. is disappointed that nations like Australia, the UK and others have decided to pick this particular time to unilaterally recognise a second state,” he told the ABC’s 7.30 program on the evening of Aug. 14….