Later this month at the United Nations in New York, French and Saudi diplomats will host a conference aimed at laying out a roadmap for an eventual Palestinian state.

Although Huckabee did not say where any future Palestinian state could be located specifically or whether the US would support such an effort, he called the conference "ill-timed and inappropriate".

"It's also something that is completely wrongheaded for European states to try to impose in the middle of a war," he said, arguing that it would result in Israel being "less secure".

"At what point does it have to be in the same piece of real estate that Israel occupies?" he said on the BBC's Newshour programme.
"I think that's a question that ought to be posed to everybody who's pushing for a two-state solution."

Asked if the US position was that there could not be a Palestinian state in the West Bank, Huckabee said:
"I wouldn't say there can never be, what I would say is that a culture would have to change.

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