Senate ratified today’s appointment of Republican former ruler Mike Haccabi in its place US Ambassador to Israelas the Donald Trump He chose him mainly because of his proximity to Israeli circles that support the settlement of Palestinian territories.

“He loves Israel and the people of Israel, and vice versa, the people of Israel worship him. Mike will work incessantly to restore peace in the Middle East »Donald Trump had stated when he appointed this 69 -year -old baptist pastor as an ambassador.

Senate ratified Hakabi’s appointment with 53 votes against 46by placing a strong friendly conservative in a high position in the midst of the Gaza war and the relations complicated by US duties.

During his first term, the Republican president satisfied a long -term request from the Israeli state by transferring the US Embassy From Tel-Aviv to Jerusalem.

The face of the Conservative Christian Right and a well -known warrior of the rights of the LOATKI+community, Mike Haccabi served as Governor of Arkanos in the southern United States, between 1996 and 2007, and twice claimed the Republican anointing for the presidential elections in 2016.

His daughter, Sarah Haccabi Sanders, was a White House spokesman during the first Trump term, before becoming the same ruler of Arkanos.

In 2017, as he was in a Jewish settlement, Haccabi had stated: “The occupied West Bank does not exist. There is Judea and Samaria »referring to the biblical name of the area used by the Israelis.

“(Hebrew) there is no settlement. There are communities, neighborhoods, cities. Occupation, there is no »he added.

When his appointment was announced, the far -right Israeli minister Bezalel Smotrich exiled “A supporter of the colonization process”.

The ratification of his appointment takes place after two months of fragile truce between Hamas and Israel, the Israeli army resumed on March 18th of its military attack on the Gaza Strip, from which the Palestinian movement launched an unprecedented attack on the 7th.

Donald Trump, a firm supporter of Israel himself, recently accepted Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House, and the two leaders assured that they were working on a new truce agreement in the Gaza Strip, which will make it possible to release the hostages.

In early February, Trump caused a storm of international reactions proposing the idea that the United States will take control of the Gaza Strip to rebuild it and turn it into ‘Riviera of the Middle East’. He reiterated that its inhabitants could move to Egypt and Jordan, two countries that rejected this choice.