Mike Huckabee, in His Own Words: What Trump's Incoming U.S. Ambassador Really Thinks About Israel, Palestine and 'Almighty God' — Haaretz

No Palestinians, no West Bank, no occupation: Pastor, former governor and incoming U.S. ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee has trenchant Bible-based ideas about Israel and Palestine. Here is a round-up of his more belligerent statements over the years

In announcing Mike Huckabee as his pick for U.S. ambassador to Israel, President-elect Donald Trump wrote that Huckabee "loves Israel, and the people of Israel, and likewise, the people of Israel love him. Mike will work tirelessly to bring about Peace in the Middle East."

Huckabee, a devout Evangelical Christian who was formerly Governor of Arkansas and ran twice for the Republican nomination for the U.S. presidency, says he's visited Israel and the West Bank "dozens and dozens of times," and describes his connection as "not so much political as it is visceral, personal."

As a staunch proponent of annexation, with close relations over decades with Israeli settlers and the Yesha Council, the umbrella organization of West Bank Jewish settlements, he has been explicit about what that "visceral" connection to Greater Israel means, as well as his skepticism about the national aspirations of what he habitually refers to as the "so-called Palestinians."

Here is a run-down of his most pungent statements about Israel and Palestine over the last decade and a half.

"Israel is occupying the land but it is an occupation of land that God gave them 3,500 years ago."
February 2024

Huckabee, a frequent guest on a podcast produced by the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews organization called "Nourish Your Biblical Roots," called for using "biblical language" when speaking about Israel in an episode recorded in February.

"When people use the term 'occupy,'" Huckabee said, "I say, yeah, Israel is occupying the land, but it is an occupation of land that God gave them 3,500 years ago. It is their land." — Feb 2024

"In Genesis, when we're told that God will bless those who bless Israel and curse those who curse Israel," he continued, "I'm simple-minded enough to say, 'There it is. What am I gonna do? I'm gonna believe that."

"This is a biblical mandate, and we need to stand on it from that perspective," Huckabee declared.

"There's really no such thing as a Palestinian."
— 2008, 2015 and 2024

In 2019, Huckabee railed against Congressman Rashida Tlaib for a photo that was released of a world map in her office on which Israel had been covered up by a sticky note reading "Palestine."

"Disturbing. Antisemitic," then-Governor Huckabee tweeted. "'Palestinian' Rashida Tlaib (there has NEVER been a nation called Palestine) erases Israel from map in her office... Do Dems support this bigotry and hate?"

Huckabee has publicly repeated his refusal to recognize Palestine many times, dating at least back to 2008, and reiterated in 2015 and in April 2024. In a video from 2008 that has now resurfaced on social media, Huckabee can be seen talking to two Orthodox Jews during a campaign stop in Massachusetts.
"Basically, there really is no such thing as – I need to be careful about saying this, because people will really get upset – there's really no such thing as a Palestinian," he told them.
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