Mike Huckabee Attacks UK PM’s Israel Rebuke With Dresden Bombing Swipe: ‘That Wasn’t Food You Dropped!’
WIktor Szymanowicz/NurPhoto
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s rebuke of Israel’s plans to push into Gaza City has triggered a furious diplomatic backlash from President Donald Trump’s ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee – who compared the foreign leader to someone who would have appeased Nazi Germany and warned Israel should not be expected to “surrender to Hamas.”
The attack came hours after Starmer released a statement that urged Israel to reconsider its planned “escalation” in Gaza, calling it “wrong” and warning it would “only bring more bloodshed.” He also called for more “humanitarian aid” while declaring that Hamas “must leave” and “disarm.”
Starmer’s statement rebuking Israel’s “escalation” in Gaza. (Image via 10 Downing St/X)
Hours later, in a fiery statement posted to X, Huckabee mocked Starmer’s plea for aid and an end to the conflict, invoking the 1945 Allied bombing campaign that levelled the German city of Dresden in World War II, jibing that the Royal Air Force didn’t drop “food.”
“So Israel is expected to surrender to Hamas & feed them even though Israeli hostages are being starved? Did UK surrender to Nazis and drop food to them? Ever heard of Dresden, PM Starmer? That wasn’t food you dropped,” Huckabee wrote.
He added: “If you had been PM then UK would be speaking German!”
The clash unfolds amid concern over reports of widespread starvation in Gaza as the humanitarian crisis continues.
In July, Starmer pledged that the UK will formally recognise a Palestinian state by September unless Israel takes concrete steps to ease the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and commit to ending the conflict, one that includes progress toward a two-state solution.
