Category: Middle East, World Affairs Topics: Barack Obama, Government And Politics, Occupation Views: 2979
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Huckabee Says No Palestinian State In West Bank
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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.
He called the demand on Israel to give up land for peace an "unrealistic, unworkable and unreachable goal."
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 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. Joined by actor Jon Voight on the three-day visit, Huckabee's itinerary includes tours of Jewish settlements and meetings with Israeli leaders.
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.
| "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. |
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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Source: TheHuffingtonPost - Aron Heller
Category: Middle East, World Affairs
Topics: Barack Obama, Government And Politics, Occupation
Views: 2979
Topics: Barack Obama, Government And Politics, Occupation
Views: 2979
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SAIF HASAAN FROM USA said:
It seems that Hubakabee has got it backwards. It should be stated that if Israel wants a Jewish state it should not be done at the expense of the Palestinians the true owners of the land. Maybe Hukabee doesn't know the true history of the land or maybe he does. Maybe he still thinks Columbus discovered America at the expense of Native Americans. America continues to get it wrong. They have lost all respect of the Christian Arabs and Muslim around the globe. They can never be seen as even handed in this affair. The Palestinians are not responsible for this mess Europeans again are responsible.
2011-02-02
ADEL FROM USA said:
It's exactly because of comments like these that many in the Muslim world, aside from fringe groups like Al Qaeda, see the means for the liberation of Palestine only through the defeat of America. Normal, everyday Americans must ask themselves if Israel, or any country for that matter, is worth dragging our country into despair and defeat for. We've sacrificed enough blood and treasure keeping Israel secure and it will only hasten our downfall. The founding father of the U.S., George Washington, warned (in his last address to Congress) exactly against this type of foreign policy. Radicals like Mr. Huckabee have no place leading our country. If he prefers, he should renounce his American citizenship and run for President of Israel. Then he can only blame himself when he reaps the reward of being an occupier and criminal, which all criminals will face (just ask Muabarak).
2011-02-02
MAYA V FROM AK said:
Terrorist!
well that term itself is ashameed when used for such people who deny the people's right to live in their motherland.
well that term itself is ashameed when used for such people who deny the people's right to live in their motherland.
2011-02-02
H.A. FROM YATHRIB said:
Typical brainless American...
No wonder people throw shoes at them.
No wonder people throw shoes at them.
2011-02-02
