During the last presidential elections, I remember cringing ~ physically cringing ~ as McCain, Clinton and Obama tried to outJew each other when they were begging AIPAC. to back them. It really was quite obscene.
The next Presidential elections are not due for a year and a bit, and already hopefuls are out pandering to the Zionist interests at the expense of the Palestinian people.
If this is an example of what to expect from the contenders to get AIPAC backing, things could get very ugly all the way around.
Presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee is shamelessly kissing Zionist bottom to get into the White House. But what else could one expect from a Christian Zionist spiritual mutant? That is all to say for the moment ~ succinct, crude and to the point.
With an Israeli flag in the background, former Arkansas Gov. and Republican presidential contender Mike Huckabee speaks in Beit Oron, east Jerusalem, Monday, Jan. 31, 2011. Likely 2012 U.S. presidential contender Mike Huckabee says preventing Jewish settlers from building in east Jerusalem is as outrageous as discriminating against Americans because of their race, language or religion. Huckabee spoke at the dedication of a new Jewish neighborhood in east Jerusalem, which is claimed by the Palestinians. ~ Bernat Armangue /AP Photos
By Aron Heller
Associated Press
February 1, 2011
JERUSALEM ~
Potential 2012 U.S. presidential candidate Mike Huckabee said Tuesday that if Palestinians want an independent state, they should seek it from Arabs ~ not Israel.
The evangelical minister and Fox News host said Jews should be allowed to settle anywhere throughout the biblical Land of Israel ~ an area that includes the West Bank and east Jerusalem.
Does God talk to him as He allegedly did to Bush, that Huckabee feels he can make such pronouncements?
He called the demand on Israel to give up land for peace an "unrealistic, unworkable and unreachable goal."
Likely 2012 U.S. presidential contender Mike Huckabee says preventing Jewish settlers from building in east Jerusalem is as outrageous as discriminating against Americans because of their race, language or religion. Huckabee spoke at the dedication of a new Jewish neighborhood in east Jerusalem, which is claimed by the Palestinians.
Oh, Puhleeze! This is about the same as comparing pineapples and cucumbers ~ an absolutely nonsensical comment. Pure politicking because it makes absolutely no sense!
Former Arkansas Gov. and Republican presidential contender Mike Huckabee speaks to the media in front of the Shepherd Hotel in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, Monday, Jan. 31, 2011. Likely 2012 U.S. presidential contender Mike Huckabee says preventing Jewish settlers from building in east Jerusalem is as outrageous as discriminating against Americans because of their race, language or religion. Huckabee spoke at the dedication of a new Jewish neighborhood in east Jerusalem, which is claimed by the Palestinians. ~ Bernat Armangue /AP Photos
Most of the international community ~ including President Barack Obama ~ considers Jewish settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem illegal because they are built on occupied land Israel captured in the 1967 Mideast war. The Palestinians claim both areas for a future state.
Huckabee suggested that if a Palestinian state were to be established, it shouldn't come at Israel's expense.
"There are vast amounts of territory that are in the hands of Muslims, in the hands of Arabs. Maybe the international community can come together and accommodate," he said in a meeting with reporters.
Huckabee makes frequent trips to Israel to voice support for Jewish settlements.
He's currently being hosted by The Jerusalem Reclamation Project, a group that promotes settlements in an attempt to bolster a Jewish presence in mostly Arab areas.
"The Jerusalem Reclamation Project is responsible for the resurgence of Jewish life in the heart of Jerusalem over the past 26 years."
Joined by actor Jon Voight on the three-day visit, Huckabee's itinerary includes tours of Jewish settlements and meetings with Israeli leaders.
Voight, father of Angelina Jolie, and one time top actor, is a rabid Zionist with very tight ties to the Chabad Lubavitch so his opinion towards Israel is already public knowledge. He can be seen both dancing with rabbis and speaking out on Palestine here.
Huckabee, a former governor of Arkansas and a presidential contender in 2008, is expected to seek the Republican nomination to run against Obama in 2012.
He said that as president he would move the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem ~ affirming Israel's position that the city should be its undivided and eternal capital ~ and said he would not pressure Israel into making any territorial concessions.
He was critical of previous U.S. attempts to broker a peace agreement with Palestinians, who he says have yet to truly recognize Israel's right to exist within secure borders.
U.S. actor John Voight walks in front of the Shepherd Hotel in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, Monday, Jan. 31, 2011. Voight accompanied likely 2012 U.S. presidential contender Mike Huckabee who said preventing Jewish settlers from building in east Jerusalem is as outrageous as discriminating against Americans because of their race, language or religion. Huckabee spoke at the dedication of a new Jewish neighborhood in east Jerusalem, which is claimed by the Palestinians. ~ Bernat Armangue /AP Photos
"I know my view on this may be seen as the minority, out of the mainstream of the more politically correct idealistic view that we can just have a conference or a meeting and bring the diplomats together, toast marshmallows, build a camp fire and sing Kumbaya. It has not happened. I'm not confident that it ever could or would," he said.
"I am such a 'maverick!'" he seems to be saying.
He said any peace agreement has to recognize that "the Jewish people have indigenous rights to the land in which they occupy and live and it goes back not 60 years or 80 years but it goes back 3,500 years."
He said any peace agreement has to recognize that "the Jewish people have indigenous rights to the land in which they occupy and live and it goes back not 60 years or 80 years but it goes back 3,500 years."
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