Not only does Huckabee travel to Israeli settlements, have ties to extremist settler movements, and advocate for Israel’s right to use force to achieve its radical goals.
In line with US President Donald Trump’s new administration, his newly appointed ambassador to Israel is a fanatical Zionist who not only denies the existence of the Palestinian people, but is fixated on working to bring about further Israeli settlement expansion.
Born in Hope, Arkansas, in 1955, Mike Huckabee is a hardline evangelical Christian who would emerge as popular amongst Republicans. He finished a degree studying at Ouachita Baptist University in 1975 and went on to receive a master’s degree from the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in 1980.
This was all prior to him becoming the Governor of Arkansas, between 1996 and 2007. However, prior to all of this he began his journey towards becoming a Christian Pastor back in 1973, which also happened to be the first time he ever visited Israeli-occupied territory, an experience which he claims deeply influenced and moved him.
Commenting on Huckabee being his choice to serve in the position of US ambassador, Donald Trump stated that “He loves Israel and the people of Israel,” following this up with “Mike will work tirelessly to bring about Peace in the Middle East.” Yet, Huckabee’s personal positions indicate that instead of seeking peace, he supports the total erasure of Palestine from the map.
The new US Ambassador not only stated in 2008, while running for President, that “there is no such thing as a Palestinian,” claiming instead that they are simply a political instrument for arguing that Israel needs to give up land. He also openly proclaims that the West Bank is not occupied territory, refusing to even call it by its internationally recognised name and instead referring to it as its biblical name, “Judea and Samaria”.
Huckabee is driven by a Christian Zionist belief that God made a covenant with the Jews in the Old Testament of the Bible and that the Holy Land belongs to them alone. In fact, he is so immersed in this belief system, rejected by many Christians around the World, that he has been visiting occupied Palestine, often on Israeli government-endorsed trips, for some 50 years. He also claims to have visited the country more than 100 times and taken at least 10,000 people there on tours.
Not only does Huckabee travel to Israeli settlements, have ties to extremist settler movements, and advocate for Israel’s right to use force to achieve its radical goals, but he also supports the total annexation of the West Bank. His support for illegally annexing the occupied territory is in line with Donald Trump’s top donor, Miriam Adelson, who pledged her support for his bid to become President with what Haaretz News said was the quid pro quo of permitting Israeli annexation.
The potential damage that Huckabee could have prompted the Council on American–Islamic Relations (CAIR), America’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, to send a letter to the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations urging that he not be granted the position.
Huckabee is also connected to Zionist anti-Muslim hate groups and has even compared Muslim prayer to pornography.
Huckabee being designated as the US ambassador to Israel at this time is a strong indication that the Trump administration is set on pursuing a policy of erasing the Palestinian people. The Arkansas-born Christian fundamentalist staunchly opposes a two-state solution and is overtly driven by theology in his pro-Israel view that the entirety of Palestine be handed over to the Jews to live in an ethno-State.
(The Palestine Chronicle)
– Robert Inlakesh is a journalist, writer, and documentary filmmaker. He focuses on the Middle East, specializing in Palestine. He contributed this article to The Palestine Chronicle.
How is it not considered a ‘ conflict of interest ‘ to have a Zionist in charge of relations with ” Israel “? He’s already jaded, biased against reality and common sense. And as Robert Inlakesh points out in this article, Miriam Adelson literally paid Trump to ensure the annexation of West Bank. For years i’d always heard: Jews are shady, scummy people who only want to take land that was never theirs, based on fables and fabrications from the Old Testament ( which has ZERO historical value, and was written BY the Jews ) and they murder children. Now i see that what i’d heard is correct.
This Christian Zionism goes back to circa 1580 British Puritan Protestant literalist readings of biblical texts, particularly the pre-Christian Old Testament, a practice even diaspora Jews had evolved beyond into more inclusive humanist interpretations.
It revived in the early 19th century and fed into the nationalist anti-imperial movements and pseudo-genetic racist hierarchical rationalisations that reinforced white supremacy and fed both German Aryanism and Jewish Zionism among minority zealots, before being instrumentalised by western capitalism in the 20th century that led to Auschwitz and Hiroshima…which created the UN Charter to attempt to arrest the MAD suicidal trajectory.
“Zionism is a modern phenomenon.”
– Derek Penslar
The Nato mi£itari$€d corporate cartels are currently hell-bent on replacing the UN Charter with their dictatorial rules based international ‘divide et impera’ order, back to their 19th century Great Game for planetary megalomania, despite the 21st century technologies that ensure our collective extinction, due to their messianic KKKri$tian delusions coming to fruition in the vicious crucifixion of the Palestinian people in the name of falsified religion, a fruit inherent in the lies of the original British Israelism delusion from its inception.
I grew up in an “Evengelical” Christian Zionist church, then had the opportunity to study the Bible closely at one of their own Bible Schools, only to conclude that the “End times” theology was a hodge-podge of nonsense. (I had been reading philosophy in the year before going to that Bible School, and brought that perspective to reading the Bible.) Jesus (Issa) (like the Jewish sage Hillel) taught that loving your neighbour was the most important thing besides loving God; Christian Zionist has forsaken that teaching.
covenant with the Jews in the Old Testament of the Bible and that the Holy Land belongs to them alone”?
Huckabee is saying those are the same people, yet the definition of JEW hasn’t meant somebody adherent to Judaism in centuries.
Another extremely fake “Christian”, by the name of Mike Huckabee. The life he’s been living is in no way devoted to anything that has to do with the Christian religion. On the contrary, his life is completely devoted to Zionism. His true religion is Zionism, which is also the same exact religion of his boss, as well as the same exact religion of Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth, and many other members of Donald Trump’s administration.