What Have Israelis Done to Deserve Mike Huckabee?

[babylonsister]

Posted on Aug 17, 2009


The failed presidential candidate who “majored in miracles” is in the Holy Land as the guest of a pro-settlement group. Huckabee likened opposition to Israeli settlements, which have stalled the peace process, to American segregation. That would make America’s first black president a segregationist, in Mike Huckabee’s estimation. And this man wants the launch codes. —PS

http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0817/p06s07-wome.html

Huckabee reemerges – in Israeli settlements

The former, and perhaps future, US presidential candidate criticized Obama's policy, comparing rules about where Jews could live to racial segregation.
By Ilene R. Prusher | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

from the August 17, 2009 edition


Jerusalem - In the first major Republican challenge to President Obama's Israel policy, former US presidential candidate Mike Huckabee visited a number of controversial Jewish housing projects in Arab neighborhoods of East Jerusalem on Monday.

The former governor of Arkansas – a Southern Baptist minister who was one of the main contenders for the Republican Party's 2008 nomination for president – took issue with Obama's insistence that Israel freeze the expansion of all Jewish settlements in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. Standing next to a new Israeli housing compound wedged into the Arab neighborhood of Abu Dis and abutting the looming cement security barrier, he compared placing restrictions on where Jews can live to the racial segregation of his childhood in the American South, saying, "I can't understand it at all."

Mr. Huckabee, who may well have designs on another presidential run, is in Israel as the guest of The Jerusalem Reclamation Project, run by the settler group Ateret Cohenim. Under the project, the group buys real estate – both land and existing buildings – in Arab areas of Jerusalem where Palestinians hope to make the capital of their future state. A tax-exempt organization that receives most of its revenue from US donors, the group also regularly moves Jews into Arab neighborhoods, which would complicate any effort to partition Jerusalem as part of a peace plan.

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[sharesunited]

1. Huck has gotten fat again. Overfed and sedentary.

[imdjh]

3. And that has what to do with the issue?

If you are going to make personal remarks about someone else's body, you need to post a photo.

[sharesunited]

4. The stubbornness of obesity as an impediment to political ambition?

Sorry no screen capture.

Upon edit, hasn't stopped Jerry Nadler.

[enviralment]

2. Good ole Huck

Mike is just going where his future supporters want him to go. Who do you think is providing the money for the Jerusalem Reclamation project. Fundamentalist Christians i presume.

[Grey]

5. And what about the rules about

where the Palestinians can live? What an Ass.

[provis99]

6. yeah, its just more Republican projection.

they favor segregating the Arabs, so they turn around and accuse anyone who opposes segregation of believing in segregation. The republican bizarro mind is marvelous to behold.

[BlueMTexpat]

8. But it does give one whiplash. n/t

[imdjh]

7. Jordan.

[RaleighNCDUer]

9. That's called 'ethnic cleansing', FYI. nt

[LeftishBrit]

12. Neither Jordan nor the Palestinians want that!

Just as unrealistic as the 'one-state solution' with Israel. Neither is going to happen. A two-state solution is the only possible, though difficult one.

If I say any more on that, I'll get the thread moved to I/P; so back to just saying that Huckabee is an Armageddon-seeking idiot, who is not needed anywhere, especially where there is already conflict.

[bertman]

10. The short answer to your question: they killed the saviour.

[juno jones]

11. But the jews have to rebuild the temple so Jeeee-zuz can return.

They've got the red cows and everything!

[imdjh]

13. Isn't it under the mosque?

And if the great temple is UNDER the great mosque, then doesn't that sort of prove something?

[juno jones]

14. Details, details... n/t