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DonViejo

(60,536 posts) Fri Nov 18, 2016, 06:53 PM Nov 2016

End Times Really Are Upon Us: Mike Huckabee Might Be Trump's Ambassador to Israel

The biblical rapture is actually sounding more and more appealing these days, so maybe we should all be encouraged by reports that Donald Trump may appoint former Arkansas governor and prominent evangelical Zionist Mike Huckabee as ambassador to Israel.

Gil Hoffman
@Gil_Hoffman

Exclusive: Heard from good source who spoke 2 multiple people on Trump transition team that next US ambassador 2 Israel = @GovMikeHuckabee.

2:57 PM - 17 Nov 2016
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Huckabee certainly knows the country. He’s visited Israel dozens of times, including as leader of the “Israel Experience With Mike Huckabee,” a tour/pilgrimage pitched to American Christians that is primarily focused on visiting biblical sites but has also included meeting with high-ranking Israeli politicians, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. His views are generally lockstep in line with the Israeli right on issues including settlements (he’s fine with them), negotiations with the Palestinians (they’re a waste of time) and the Iran nuclear deal (it’s an existential threat to Israel).

Huckabee has joked, “I have a lot of Jewish friends, and they’re kind of, like, ‘You evangelicals love Israel more than we do.’” But he also has a habit of saying things that make Jews very uncomfortable.

In July, he faced widespread criticism, including from many Israeli leaders, for saying that Barack Obama’s nuclear deal was marching Israelis “to the door of the oven.” Just this week, he retweeted a fake news story blaming the painting of swastikas on the Northwestern University campus on “liberal, Jewish Northwestern students.” (He later apologized.) While potentially welcome news for Israeli settlement proponents, naming Huckabee would not exactly reassure American Jews concerned about the rise in American anti-Semitism surrounding Trump’s election.

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http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/11/18/mike_huckabee_might_be_trump_s_ambassador_to_israel.html

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End Times Really Are Upon Us: Mike Huckabee Might Be Trump's Ambassador to Israel (Original Post) DonViejo Nov 2016 OP

The only good to come from this is Huckabee getting out of the country and away from the US. LonePirate Nov 2016 #1

OMG! Noooooooooo! dhol82 Nov 2016 #2

Praise JAYSUS! trof Nov 2016 #3

Revelation 16:1 Xipe Totec Nov 2016 #4

On top of everything else that's wrong with this.... LisaM Nov 2016 #5

Isn't there some bullshit about a red bull or calf or something? rzemanfl Nov 2016 #6

"Huckabee, we are not pawns in your Armageddon." DinahMoeHum Nov 2016 #7

I'm not fond of Netanyahu, so let him be Netanyahu's problem. LeftInTX Nov 2016 #8

He will go over there and tell the Israelis madaboutharry Nov 2016 #9

LonePirate

(13,431 posts)

1. The only good to come from this is Huckabee getting out of the country and away from the US.

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Fri Nov 18, 2016, 06:56 PM

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dhol82

(9,353 posts)

2. OMG! Noooooooooo!

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Fri Nov 18, 2016, 06:57 PM

Nov 2016

Whenever I think it can go any lower the Orange fuckface proves me wrong.

trof

(54,256 posts)

3. Praise JAYSUS!

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Fri Nov 18, 2016, 06:57 PM

Nov 2016

Xipe Totec

(43,890 posts)

4. Revelation 16:1

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Fri Nov 18, 2016, 07:15 PM

Nov 2016

And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth.

So, what will be Trump's first seven appointments? The seven Angels pouring out the vials of the wrath of God?

LisaM

(27,827 posts)

5. On top of everything else that's wrong with this....

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Fri Nov 18, 2016, 07:16 PM

Nov 2016

Netanyahu will eat Huckabee for lunch and spit out the remains. This is way out of Huckabee's league.

rzemanfl

(29,567 posts)

6. Isn't there some bullshit about a red bull or calf or something?

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Fri Nov 18, 2016, 07:20 PM

Nov 2016

Some sort of hokum about the second coming or something that involves Israel?

DinahMoeHum

(21,806 posts)

7. "Huckabee, we are not pawns in your Armageddon."

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Fri Nov 18, 2016, 08:19 PM

Nov 2016

This happened back in 2009:

http://www.alternet.org/rss/breaking_news/82552/protesters_heckle_us_republican_huckabee_in_jerusalem

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Two dozen right-wing Israelis staged a counter-protest, waving huge flags and cheering (sic) Huckabee, who has been touted as a possible Republican candidate in 2012.

Huckabee was among about 100 guests, including several Israeli MPs, who attended a private function held at the former Shepherd Hotel, the site of a controversial housing project for Jewish settlers funded by US millionaire Irving Moskovitz.

Protesters chanted "go home" one of the banners they held up said: "Huckabee, we are not pawns in your Armageddon."

The Israeli civic rights group Ir Amin, one of the protest organisers said: "It was no accident that they chose to hold the event at the Shepherd Hotel, one of the most disputed places in the city, symbolising the settlers' intention to control Palestinian neighborhoods in east Jerusalem to undercut future negotiations."
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LeftInTX

(25,515 posts)

8. I'm not fond of Netanyahu, so let him be Netanyahu's problem.

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Fri Nov 18, 2016, 09:32 PM

Nov 2016

madaboutharry

(40,218 posts)

9. He will go over there and tell the Israelis

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Fri Nov 18, 2016, 09:41 PM

Nov 2016

that they're all going to hell unless they accept Jesus. That is what he believes.

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