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Jerusalem – Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said Monday that the United States should not be telling Jewish people where they can and cannot live in Jerusalem, and he compared such a policy with racial segregation.
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“My question is how would the government of the United States feel if Prime Minister Netanyahu began to dictate which people could live in the Bronx, which ones could live in Manhattan, which could live in Queens, and say, ‘We only allow certain people to live in those neighborhoods,’” he said. “How would that go over? It wouldn’t go over very well.” Huckabee spoke with reporters as he toured the ancient remains at the City of David (Ir David) in eastern Jerusalem Monday.
“The position that our government has taken recently is far more harsh [than the previous administration’s], even halting peace talks until there is compliance with these demands,” he noted. “I’m not sure where we would get the authority to demand of the Israelis what they should do in their own country.”
After touring the Pool of Shiloach (Silwan) and Hezekiah’s Tunnel, the governor said, “I think that there is some concern that many of us have who have been coming to Israel for many years. I’m not Jewish, so I am not trying to stand up for the Jewish people but for the freedom of the Israeli people who I feel have an organic relationship to the United States as the only democracy in the Middle East, as the only place where freedom and liberty and personal capacity to make choices really thrives. It’s in the vital interest of not just the Middle East but the world that freedom exists.”
Asked if he would support an Israeli military strike against Iran, the man touted as the leading candidate for the Republican presidential ticket in 2012 stated he “would support Israel doing whatever Israel needs to protect [itself].” He added that the United States would never want anybody to tell it the boundaries of how it can protect itself. “I think we can certainly advise as a friend to Israel,” he explained, “but we have no right to dictate and outright tell another country what it should or shouldn’t do. Heck, we don’t do that with North Korea!
“I’d like to think that the rights of Jewish people in their own homeland would be the same as the rights of American people in their homeland,” Huckabee said. “We take our rights very seriously.”
Some one is talking my language
Huckabee 4 President
Great words Gov. Huck, only if O would listen. That is the key.
Gov. Mike Huckabee has been the strongest supporter of Israel with a straight unappologetic message!
Thank you Mr. Huckabee. Mr. Huckabee is a faithful friend of the Jewish people, and a righteous gentile. May G-d reward him many times over.
I the bronx is asking money from isreal then they can tell them who should live there……….
Mike Huckabee talks sense:. With the greatest reluctance to say this:: Israel will only keep its foreign policy independence by giving up money from the U.S. government (which would mean private donations would have to be stepped up) Neither Bush nor Obama has given Israel 100% leeway because the financial (but not defense) support has strings attached.
The only place in which Mike Huckabee is the leading GOP Candidate in 2012 is in his dreams.
Right now Romney appears to be the front runner, but it is far too early to tell.
And yes, Israel is an American client state, dependent on the United States for both financial assistance and political protection.
Gov. Huckabee is a genuine rightous gentile. He always speaks for truth and justice. If only he was blessed with National support in the Republican Party. Think about how great the USA could be with a rightous man as its leader. May HKBH bless Gov. Huckabee with success. Amen !
I think there’s a big chance that Mike Huckabe is going to be the GOP VP in 2012
The Bronx is a bad place for a comparison. Housing discrimination was rampant throughout most of the 20th century and continues to this day.
Huckabee’s statement,
“we have no right to dictate and outright tell another country what it should or shouldn’t do. Heck, we don’t do that with North Korea! “
shows that he is ignorant of history and unfit to be President. The US regularly tells countries what they should and should not do, and in the case of North Korea actually imposed sanctions when it didn’t do what the US wanted. In the case of Afghanistan, the US invaded it when it would not turn over Al Qaeda leaders. This attitude represents a dangerous isolationism similar to that of the 1930s and we unfortunately know how that turned out.
can we have the governor’s comments in writing just in case he gets to the white house??
Governor Huckabee is indeed a friend of the Jewish people and a righteous gentile. Regarding 2012, I do not think the governor will be the nominee for president or vice president. In 2008, he was perceived (rightly or wrongly) as splitting the conservative vote, causing Mitt Romney to lose the nomination to the moderate John McCain. Again, this may only be a perception, but for most people, perception is reality. Prognosticating for 2012 is very difficult this early but the front runners seem to be Sarah Palin, Mitt Romney and hopefully Newt Gingrich.
Governor Huckabee loves Israel but not because he loves Jews, but thinks that with the rise of Israel will issue in the ends of days for Christs return as many evagelist pirests fell