“It sounds like Bardem needs to stick to reading a script that someone else wrote,” Huckabee said.
By Shula Rosen
US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee rejected allegations that Israel was behind the migrant crisis at the Morocco-Spain border in Ceuta.
Huckabee criticized claims made by Spanish actor Javier Bardem and progressive political commentator Cenk Uyghur during an interview with British journalist Piers Morgan on Monday.
Morgan asked Huckabee about claims that Israel had encouraged tens of thousands of Moroccans to cross into the Spanish enclave based on a years-old social media post by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s son, Yair Netanyahu, which mentioned Ceuta in passing.
Bardem accused Israel of “weakening and destabilizing Spain” by weaponizing the “Western far right to turn migration into a weapon against Muslims.”
“It sounds like Bardem needs to stick to reading a script that someone else wrote,” Huckabee responded.
“It’s ridiculous to say that somehow this is a US-Israel conspiracy and that’s why all those young men flooded to the coast; it’s nonsense,” he added.
Huckabee also dismissed broader conspiracy theories linking Israel and the United States to international events.
“Everything that seems to happen on earth, somebody has this nutty idea that it must be Israel and/or the US who would be behind it. Why don’t you just accept the fact that there were these people who were wanting to get to that part of Spain?” he said.
Morgan also raised comments by Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, who said Spain frequently criticizes Israel while maintaining colonial enclaves in Africa. Asked whether he agreed, Huckabee replied that he “thought it was a pretty good observation,” adding that it raised “valid questions.”
The interview also turned to efforts to disarm Hamas following Morgan’s interview earlier in the program with Hamas spokesperson Ghazi Hamad.
Asked whether Israel could reach an agreement with Hamas, Huckabee questioned the credibility of the terror group.
Hamas members were “proud” of their actions during the October 7 massacre, Huckabee said, noting they “strapped GoPro cameras to their heads, and videotaped themselves raping, slaughtering, beheading, butchering, massacring women, children, and elderly people… they boasted about it online, in phone calls, on the video tape that they shot… so this guy [Hamad] has zero credibility.”
“I think that’s very important to understand if there’s any way in which Hamas wants to make a deal, the first thing they have to do is what they said they were going to do last October, and that’s they’re going to disarm and demilitarize. They haven’t done it yet,” he added.
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