Steve Bannon, a prominent MAGA activist and former senior advisor to US President Donald Trump and has called for a "three state solution" for Palestine and Israel, and for the creation of a "Christian state".
His comments were made amid the singing of Trump’s Middle East peace plan, which ended the war on Gaza and allowed for the exchange of Israeli captives and Palestinian detainees.
In a televised interview, Bannon said that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had lost the opportunity for a two-state solution with Palestinians.
"The only solution here, if you’re going to have a two-state solution, you have to have a three-state solution…you have to have a Christian state," he said.
"We can no longer just say, take it through the Muslims and the Jews. It just can’t work," he continued.
"If you really want to protect the Holy Land, the Christians are going to have to get their own stake in this," he continued.
Bannon went on to call himself a "Catholic nationalist" and pressed again for a Christian state.
"…Why did we not have a Christian state in the Levant that overseas can protect and can protect the Christian sites? If you’ve got two, why not three?" he continued.
The Christian population of Palestine has long been in decline, with many Palestinian Christians emigrating due to the hardships of life under occupation and siege. There are now believed to be only around 50,00o Christians in the Palestinian territories - around 2% of the population.
There are also an estimated 135,000 Palestinian Christians within Israel's 1948 borders, who hold Israeli citizenship.
Bannon's comments also appeared to ignore the existence of Lebanon, where Christians form nearly half the population, and are guaranteed a specific number of parliamentary seats and government positions.
Bannon, who served as a political strategist in Trump’s first administration, also made comments in another interview, where he appeared to criticise the US President’s decision to allow a Qatari military facility to be built on US soil.
He called the decision "screwed up" adding, "this is part of the price we’re paying for the Israel First crows…and others that had support for Netanyahu".
His comments come after the US Secretary of Defence, Pete Hegseth, said on Friday that the government had reached an agreement with Qatar to build an Air Force base in the state of Idaho.
While Qatar will cover the costs of building the training facility, Bannon stressed that it was a bad move and pushed Trump to take an America-first approach, rather than focusing on conflicts elsewhere around the world.
Hegseth said the facility will host a contingent of Qatari F-15s as well as pilots. Qatar also hosts the biggest US military base in the Middle East.