Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) went after President Biden on Tuesday over his latest comments signaling disagreement with Israel amid its war with Hamas, arguing the president’s policy has not been consistently pro-Israel.
Huckabee argued in an interview on Fox News, where he serves as a contributor, that Biden is engaging in “nothing less than diplomatic schizophrenia” for his comments warning Israel is losing support around the world for its war with Hamas amid the high civilian death toll in Gaza.
“[Biden] will say things like, ‘We stand with Israel,’ but then privately when he goes to a fundraiser and he trashes Israel and makes it appear that Israel is on the same footing with Hamas, and they’re not,” Huckabee said in the interview.
Biden, who has embraced Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and voiced support for Israel as it responds to the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas, warned earlier Tuesday that Israel was losing international support for its war against the Palestinian militant group.
The president said Netanyahu “has to change, and with this government, this government in Israel is making it very difficult for him to move.”
“Bibi’s got a tough decision to make,” Biden said, referring to Netanyahu.
“This is the most conservative government in Israel’s history,” the president added, saying the government “doesn’t want a two-state solution.”
Netanyahu affirmed Tuesday that he will not allow the Palestinian Authority — the governing body overseeing parts of the West Bank — to control Gaza in the future, despite demands by the U.S. and others.
More than 18,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the start of the war in early October, according to Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry. That increasing count has attracted widespread criticism from much of the global community, which has called on Israel to stop its ground invasion of Gaza so civilians can be assisted.
The United Nations overwhelmingly passed a resolution Tuesday advocating for a cease-fire to help civilians. Israel and the U.S. voted against the measure, alongside eight other countries.
Huckabee said he will visit Israel next week.