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Friday, August 28, 2009

Better For Israel To Be Respected Than Loved


CBN News video: Huckabee Israel Trip Stirs Controversy

by Sara Lehmann, The Jewish Press: Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas and a 2008 Republican presidential candidate, completed a three-day tour of some of Israel's holiest and most contentious sites last week with leaders of Ateret Cohanim. During his eleventh visit to Israel since 1973, Huckabee toured Jewish neighborhoods within East Jerusalem and Samaria and consistently affirmed his support for Jews living in any and all parts of the Jewish homeland. . . .

Huckabee's statement that the "United States government shouldn't tell Israel where Jewish people can live" was a direct rebuke of the Obama administration's pressure on Israel for a settlement freeze. And his dismissal of the notion of "two people owning the same piece of real estate" was aimed at advocates of a divided Jerusalem. . . .

Question: How does seeing the facts on the ground in Israel change your perspective regarding Jerusalem and the settlements?
Huckabee: I believe Jewish people have the right to live where they want to. All over Israeli territory, Arabs come and go freely. I thought it was very interesting and sort of telling that I went into neighborhoods where Jews were told they can't go because Arabs live there, but at the same time Arabs are not told they can't go into neighborhoods because Jews live there.

One of the things I would be very careful is not to take issue with Israeli policy because that's an issue the Israelis have to deal with. I can speak to my own personal views as to American policy. Americans have pushed for a two-state solution. Now if a two-state solution means there will be a settlement in Gaza for the Palestinians, and the Israelis decide that's what they want, that's different than splitting Jerusalem down the middle - or worse, giving Jerusalem completely over to the Palestinians. I don't think there is any realistic way Jerusalem can be governed effectively if it's divided. I cannot imagine how it would work.

Question: How do you explain Obama's position toward Israel, specifically regarding the settlement freeze and his opposition to building in Jerusalem?
Huckabee: His position is inexplicable to me. It violates what he said during his campaign. It violates what he promised when he went before AIPAC and gave them assurances that he would not make any major changes to policies that would threaten Israel's security. He spoke glowingly of the need for security. I have no explanation other than to note that he also hasn't kept his word about transparency in government. He hasn't kept his word about no bills being signed until they've been on the Internet five days and about not raising the debt and deficits and not raising taxes on the middle class. I guess we should just come to believe that everything he said in the campaign no longer can be held to him because he's not been very faithful so far in keeping his promises. . . .

Question: The recent Fatah conference in Bethlehem dispelled any notion of the Palestinians ending incitement against Israel. Why then this continued pursuit of a two-state solution nonetheless?
Huckabee: One of the reasons for my reservations concerning the whole idea of the two-state solution and dividing Jerusalem and ceding land is because as I look at that policy over the past thirty years and it simply hasn't worked. Every time Israel gives away land for peace, they get neither land nor peace. They give up land, but they don't get peace.

The ultimate insult to what I think was really good-faith efforts was that when the Palestinians had the chance to conduct elections, whom did they put into power? Hamas! My own government calls them a terrorist group. That to me is making it even more difficult to explain the Obama administration on "let's concede more." Why concede more to a terrorist group that doesn't believe Israel should even exist? I am totally bewildered by that point of view.

Question: Despite Israeli concessions, anti-Zionism seems to have morphed into anti-Semitism, as illustrated during the recent Gaza War. In light of this, should Israel just ignore world opinion in its pursuit of secure borders?
Huckabee: It's better to be respected and feared than it is to be loved. If you're seeking to be loved you may not be respected, but if you are respected you may end up being loved. It just may take a while. But if love means you're being taken advantage of, that's not love at all.

I've always felt Israel was at its best when it took a very clear stand, for example against negotiating with terrorists, and when it said, "If you strike us we will strike you back." I know that most Americans have an appreciation and respect for that.

I stood in Sderot last summer and saw hundreds upon hundreds of the eight thousand Kassam rockets that had been fired into schools and homes indiscriminately, with no military targets. Where was the international press demanding that something be done? Where were those same reporters who went over there [Gaza] weeping? How many Kassams were enough before they finally had to take action? How many thousands of those missiles had to be fired into people's lawns, their schools and their kids' nursery before at one point they said "that's it"?

How many would it have taken the United States to say that's enough? One. We would have gotten there 7,999 missiles sooner. And for Americans to act like the Israelis were wrong to have defended themselves against that is beyond any explanation that I can give.

Question: Had . . . gone on to win the presidency, what policies would you have implemented relating to Israel?
Huckabee: I believe Jerusalem should be the site of the U.S. embassy. It's the capital of Israel. It's not our place as an American government to determine what the capital of another country is. We don't do that with anyone else on earth. And it's incredible to me that we would say we're not recognizing the very capital that is the seat of Israel's government, where the prime minister governs and resides and where the parliament meets. It makes no sense.

I would also never try to dictate to Israel where the people of its country should live. And I would be very supportive of building even stronger alliances, because I think the very unique bond between the countries - based on mutual commitment to individual liberty and freedom - is incredible. [Fully Story]

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2 Comments:

Anonymous Antonio Emanuel Silva said...

I LOVE ISRAEL!

9/01/2009  
Anonymous Pamela Manard said...

I love and respect Israel too! You have to listen to the video to understand what Huckabee was talking about.

Huckabee: It's better to be respected and feared than it is to be loved. If you're seeking to be loved you may not be respected, but if you are respected you may end up being loved. It just may take a while. But if love means you're being taken advantage of, that's not

9/01/2009  

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