Jerusalem – Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee waded into Middle East politics on Tuesday by declaring the West Bank to be part of Israel.
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Huckabee was speaking to reporters at Ancient Shiloh, for which a modern settlement nearby is named and where tradition holds the ancient Israelites kept the tabernacle with Moses’ tablets on its way to Jerusalem.
“I am delighted tonight to be here at Shiloh. It is an exciting place and an important place. It is the place where the tabernacle once was. It’s a place of Biblical history,” he said.
He told reporters “if you’re going to visit Israel you should visit all of Israel, and that would include Judea and Samaria,” the biblical names for the West Bank.
His comments on the West Bank are at odds with U.S policy.
Israel captured the West Bank from Jordan in the 1967 Mideast war. Palestinians demand the area, along with East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, for a future state.
The fate of West Bank settlements is one of the core issues at the heart of the conflict.
Huckabee is visiting Israel to meet with officials to discuss the Obama administration’s nuclear deal with Iran.
Huckabee is a bigger Zionist than most of the knesset (incl. the Haredim).
Hey,Mike Huckabee,lets see and go live there in one of the most dangerous places on planet earth.
Right wing Zionist who reside on the West Bank are living among lion predator who prey on Jews. To them,being nationalistic and showing the Palestinian that “we Jews are allowed to live in our homeland” is more important then Jewish lives. Countless Jews and entire families were butchered by murderers Palestinians and still these flaming right wingers would not give it up.What a Shanda.
Huckabee would sell his mother down the river for votes. He has always pandered to the right wing Christian evangelicals who would be delighted to see another war in the Middle East and deaths of yidden since it would be their long-awaited Armageddon preceding the coming of their Messiah. I don’t think anyone really cares what this clown says or does. He is irrelevant to the election (his poll numbers are less than 5 percent) and he has tried to out-Trump the Donald by making more and more outrageous statements.
Wait until future President Donald Trump goes to Israel, that’s when you will hear comments that will get you really shocked.