{"id":132601,"date":"2025-08-09T20:32:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T20:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/132601\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T20:32:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T20:32:14","slug":"uss-israel-envoy-pushes-back-against-criticism-of-gaza-takeover-plan-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/132601\/","title":{"rendered":"US\u2019s Israel envoy pushes back against criticism of Gaza takeover plan \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Israeli plan, approved<\/a> early Friday by the government\u2019s security cabinet, involves disarming Hamas, returning all hostages, demilitarizing the Gaza Strip, establishing Israeli security control of Gaza, and setting up a new administration that is neither Hamas nor the Palestinian Authority.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The military escalation comes amid increasingly urgent international condemnation over the humanitarian disaster in Gaza. Even Germany, one of Israel\u2019s staunchest European allies, has suspended<\/a> some arms exports to Israel in response.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Huckabee referred to events of the Second World War in his response to Starmer, saying: \u201cDid [the] UK surrender to Nazis and drop food to them? Ever heard of Dresden, PM Starmer? That wasn\u2019t food you dropped. If you had been PM then, [the] UK would be speaking German!\u201d<\/p>\n

The German city of Dresden was largely destroyed after being subjected to some of the heaviest bombing of World War II by British and American forces.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz also defended his government\u2019s plan, saying<\/a> on X that countries that \u201ccondemn and threaten sanctions will not weaken our resolve<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Israeli plan, approved early Friday by the government\u2019s security cabinet, involves disarming Hamas, returning all hostages, demilitarizing…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":132602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[372,262,69,264,117,99,17723,3097,1802,50,4851,126,4995,3470,376,67,131,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-132601","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-benjamin-netanyahu","9":"tag-defense","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-exports","12":"tag-germany","13":"tag-israel","14":"tag-keir-starmer","15":"tag-middle-east","16":"tag-military","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-palestine","19":"tag-sanctions","20":"tag-security","21":"tag-uk","22":"tag-united-kingdom","23":"tag-united-states","24":"tag-war","25":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115000714431837185","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}