{"id":18805,"date":"2026-02-22T10:24:57","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T10:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/?p=18805"},"modified":"2026-02-22T10:24:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T10:24:58","slug":"arab-states-condemn-u-s-ambassador-to-israels-remarks-as-baseless-and-unacceptable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/2026\/02\/22\/arab-states-condemn-u-s-ambassador-to-israels-remarks-as-baseless-and-unacceptable\/","title":{"rendered":"Arab States condemn U.S. Ambassador to Israel\u2019s remarks as \u201cbaseless and unacceptable\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KABUL: Arab League member states have strongly condemned recent comments by Mike Hawkbi, the United States ambassador to Israel, describing them as \u201cbaseless and unacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Anadolu Agency, the Arab countries issued a joint statement on Saturday night responding to Hawkbi\u2019s remarks in which he asserted, during a podcast, that Israel has the right to exercise control over the entire Middle East, including the occupied West Bank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The foreign ministries of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Iraq, and Oman, in separate statements, criticized Hawkbi\u2019s remarks as \u201cirresponsible, in violation of international law, the UN Charter, and diplomatic norms.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saudi Arabia specifically called on the U.S. State Department to clarify Washington\u2019s official position and publicly repudiate the ambassador\u2019s statements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hawkbi had argued that, according to Israel\u2019s \u201csacred texts,\u201d the state has the right to maintain authority from the Nile to the Euphrates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL: Arab League member states have strongly condemned recent comments by Mike Hawkbi, the United States ambassador to Israel, describing them as \u201cbaseless and unacceptable.\u201d According to Anadolu Agency, the Arab countries issued a joint statement on Saturday night responding to Hawkbi\u2019s remarks in which he asserted, during a podcast, that Israel has the right [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[73],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18805"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18807,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18805\/revisions\/18807"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}