Huckabee slams Obama in pro-settlement Israel visit

Huckabee slams Obama in pro-settlement Israel visit

By Cliff Churgin | McClatchy Newspapers


JERUSALEM — Former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee slammed President Barack Obama's policies toward Israel on Monday in a visit here that underscored the tensions between the Obama administration and the Israeli government over Jewish settlements in what traditionally have been Palestinian areas.

Huckabee criticized the Obama administration's calls for ending such settlements and said Obama's position had only encouraged the Palestinian government not to negotiate with Israel.

More important than Huckabee's words, however, was where he chose to deliver them: at several controversial Jewish enclaves in the mostly Arab neighborhoods of East Jerusalem, which both Israel and the Palestinian Authority claim.

"The policies are a drastic change from previous administrations," Huckabee said at Maale Zeitim, a 100-unit housing project at the foot of the Mount of Olives. "Halting peace talks until 20 families are moved out? Our focus should be on Iran, and not on where 20 Jewish families are moving."

Huckabee's final appearance was to be a dinner at the Shepherd Hotel, where an American Jewish entrepreneur plans on constructing 20 housing units for Jewish Israelis despite the neighborhood's traditionally Arab character. Only last month, the State Department summoned Israel's ambassador to call for canceling the project.

"It concerns me that some in the U.S. tell Israelis they can't live where they want in their own country," Huckabee said.

The United States has always opposed Israeli settlements in Palestinian areas, but previous presidents rarely took action as Israel expanded its presence in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. The Israeli government claims that it reached an understanding with the George W. Bush administration that allowed limited settlement expansion, but Obama officials deny that such an understanding exists.

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It is marked with an "X" at the bottom of the Dead Sea.

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This bitch makes Ann Coulter sound rational!

Last update - 18:18 17/08/2009

Orly Taitz: Obama policies are 'clear and present danger to Israel'

By Benjamin L. Hartman, Haaretz Correspondent, and The Associated Press

She believes Obama poses a threat to Israel not only because of his support of radical Islamic groups such as Hamas, but also because of his "radical socialist" policies, that will bring the United States to "totalitarianism and Stalinism." According to Taitz, these policies "pose a threat to all democracies, not only Israel."

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1108110.html

So now we got Huckabee looking for Jesus' Second Coming Landing Zone, together with the birther queen, in Israel at the same time. Perhaps Israel will keep them both for good!

what an incredible hypocrite.

:shrug:

Or does that rule only pertain to the Dixie Chicks?

Fuck his hypocricy.

The fundamentalist have long dreamed of having an unabashed, unrestrained fellow fundamentalist leading the ticket. Some might think they had that with George W. But, I think they want someone even more obviously pushing their agenda without any nuance or minced words or caving in to practicality or political realism. Mike Huckabee could be the total fulfillment of that hope, even more so, much more so than George W. Bush. George W. Bush after all did understand that political realities required him to at least make disingenuous public statements on the Israel/Palestine issue and numerous other issues as well. Mike Huckabee would not feel the need to restrain his words one little bit. His followers from the fundamentalist rank would expect him to represent what they consider to be God's positon on every issue - without compromise.

The fundamentalist are at this time, by far the single most important constituency within the Republican Party base. I think they are prepared and are preparing to go for broke in 2012.

If my prediction comes true, it will probably be good news for the Democrats in that a Huckabee ticket will alienate Republicans who have any sense of pragmatism. Pragmatic Republicans are certainly a rare breed among their activist core and their base. But old-fashioned Republicans and country club Republicans still make up a sizable portion of those who out of habit or tradition or psychological aversion to voting Democratic - end up voting for the GOP on election day. Let's just hope and pray that no historical accident happens that might actually make him a viable candidate on election day.