Mike Huckabee, who Trump says he will nominate to be U.S. ambassador to Israel, has said: “I think Israel has title deed to Judea and Samaria. … There is no such thing as a West Bank; it’s Judea and Samaria. There’s no such thing as a settlement; they’re communities … neighborhoods … cities … There’s no such thing as an occupation. …” Huckabee has also said “there’s really no such thing as a Palestinian.”
[Trump also nominated Fox pundit Pete Hegseth and former Guantanamo prison guard to head the Pentagon. He wrote the book American Crusade — see excerpt.]DON WAGNER, dwag42@gmail.com
Rev. Dr. Don Wagner is a retired member of the Presbyterian clergy, professor and a human rights activist. He is the author of the memoir Glory to God in the Lowest: Journeys to an Unholy Land and other books including Anxious for Armageddon.
He said today: “Huckabee will be fully supportive of Israel annexing the rest of the West Bank and East Jerusalem because he erroneously believes God gave all of historic Palestine to the Jewish people, as if God were a real estate agent who believed in redlining and ethnic supremacy.”
Haaretz recently published an editorial entitled “Netanyahu’s Ethnic Cleansing in Gaza Is on Display for All to See.” Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said Monday that Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. presidential election provides an “important opportunity” for Israel to annex settlements in the occupied West Bank.
Wagner wrote the piece “Netanyahu abuses Bible to impress U.S. evangelicals.” See his talk: “The Widespread Influence of Christian Zionism and Growing Backlash Inside American Churches.”