U.S. Ambassador's unprecedented admission: Settler violence is terrorism

Pars Today – In an unprecedented statement condemning attacks by Israeli settlers against Palestinians, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee described their actions as a clear example of terrorism.

According to Pars Today, citing IRIB, Huckabee took an unprecedented position regarding crimes committed by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, describing their actions as terrorism and stressing that such acts of violence and disorder harm Israel’s interests.

The remarks came amid reports of escalating settler attacks on Palestinian homes and farmland across the West Bank. In one incident, a Palestinian-American citizen in the town of Qusra was directly attacked despite displaying an American flag in an attempt to deter the settlers, highlighting the widespread insecurity faced by residents of the area.

Huckabee strongly condemned the siege of a Palestinian family’s home in the West Bank village of Qusra by Israeli settlers, describing their actions as Israeli terrorism.

Human rights groups say these attacks are part of a broader, deliberate effort to seize Palestinian land and further reduce the territory available to Palestinians. Analysts argue that the growing boldness of extremist settlers in carrying out such attacks is a direct result of the Netanyahu government’s hardline policies aimed at expanding illegal settlements in the occupied territories—policies that have now drawn criticism even from some of the regime’s Western supporters.