Mike Huckabee Criticized for Mideast Remarks

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Picking Mike Huckabee for ambassador to Israel spells more misery for Palestinians - Arkansas Times

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Ruben Navarrette : Mike Huckabee says Palestinians do not exist as a people.

He says Huckabee 's appointment shows how little the president-elect cares about what happens to Palestinians .

The idea that a vote for Trump might serve to end the war was always terribly misguided, he says.

The West Bank has been steadily sliced and diced into pieces over the past 50 years by Israeli settlements.

Huckabee believes that God gave the land to the Jewish people, and that Palestinians are effectively interlopers.

Huckabee ’s comments aren’t as far outside the mainstream as they might sound.

Huckabee has a long-lasting relationship with Israel and has built friendships with the hard-right religious conservatives.

John Avlon : Evangelical Christians believe the establishment of Israel was the fulfillment of Biblical prophecy and will precipitate the second coming of Christ .

He says Huckabee wouldn't directly describe his view on that belief but dismissed it as irrelevant.

Avlon says mainstream Democrats continue to back unconditional support of Israel , no matter what atrocities Israel commits.

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