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'The Brits have lost it': US ambassador to Israel reacts to Miliband's Gaza remarks
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<div class="field field-field-text"><p>US ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, has reacted sharply to British foreign secretary Ed Miliband's description of Gaza situation, saying "the Brits have lost it".</p>
<p>"The Jew hate of their government knows no boundaries and knows no facts," Huckabee wrote on X, a day after Miliband, who is Jewish, <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/miliband-says-gaza-situation-horrific-uk-must-act-more-decisively">said </a>in an Instagram video that he had met with people who had been in Gaza and had been briefed on the “horrific” situation unfolding there.</p>
<p>“You know the stories that people were telling me of medicines being blocked, children dying while waiting for vital life-saving treatment," he said.</p>
<p>"When you hear that account of what is happening, you know that we as a UK government, as the prime minister has said, have got to act and act more decisively than we have,” Miliband added.</p>
<p>On Tuesday, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/sep/01/ed-miliband-promises-reset-of-uk-policy-toward-israel" target="_blank">Miliband told British MPs</a> that his government plans to impose a "comprehensive" package of sanctions in the coming weeks over Israeli plans to expand illegal West Bank settlements.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">The Brits have lost it. The Jew hate of their government knows no boundaries and knows no facts. <a href="https://t.co/W6iZ1ZrHrR">https://t.co/W6iZ1ZrHrR</a></p>
— Ambassador Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) <a href="https://x.com/GovMikeHuckabee/status/2096284419568898473?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 5, 2026</a></blockquote>
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