A great article on Mike Huckabee and Israel

[Chaim Ben Pesach]

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Here are some sections of the article:

“He does things and says things when he’s here that no other top-tier American political figure will say and do,” said Charles Levine, an Israeli-American political consultant who has worked with Huckabee. “Others couch their phrases very diplomatically or stick to politically correct concepts or phrases. He does not do that.”

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The trips also have political lessons. Huckabee met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a committee of the Knesset on this trip, making headlines for his dismissal of the land-for-peace bargain that underlies the peace process and of the very idea of a Palestinian state in the West Bank.

Such a state “can’t be on top of the same real estate that the Israelis control,” he told POLITICO. “There’s no such thing as a realistic hope of this two-state solution.”

He said demands that Israel rein in settlements have only encouraged Palestinian demands. Instead, he said, the U.S. should “encourage the Israelis to build as much as they can and as rapidly as they can.”

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“The real answer is that there’s an aggressive interest in bringing Jews from around the world to the homeland,” Huckabee said.

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“This is not a battle of borders; this is one of worldviews,” he said. “It goes back to Isaac and Ishmael, and it’s not going to be changed by a couple of presidents or prime ministers.”

Huckabee said he views this not as a religious framework but as a historical one.

“Abraham was a very real person, and his sons were, and their offspring have fought from time immemorial to bring it to this day,” he said.

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These are all the types of statements you would expect to hear from JTF. Mike Huckabee is for real.