Trump picks Mike Huckabee as US ambassador to Israel
Source: The Hill
11/12/24 2:03 PM ET
President-elect Trump announced Tuesday he will nominate former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) to serve as ambassador to Israel, a major diplomatic role that will take on added importance amid heightened tensions in the Middle East.
Mike has been a great public servant, Governor, and Leader in Faith for many years, Trump said in a statement. He loves Israel, and the people of Israel, and likewise, the people of Israel love him. Mike will work tirelessly to bring about Peace in the Middle East!
For over a year, Israel has carried out war against Hamas following the terrorist groups attacks in October 2023 that killed more than 1,000 Israeli citizens. Trump has urged Israel to finish the problem, even as he has been critical of how it has carried out its military campaign. Tensions have also been on the rise between Israel and Hezbollah, the militant group with a major presence in Lebanon.
Huckabee served as governor of Arkansas from 1996-2007, winning two full terms after taking over for then-Gov. Jim Guy Tucker (R), who resigned. He ran unsuccessful presidential campaigns in 2008 and 2016.
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4986422-mike-huckabee-ambassador-israel/
I guess he would want to experience the rapture up close and personal?
brush
(57,727 posts)We never hear his/her name.
MayReasonRule
(1,852 posts)hedda_foil
(16,510 posts)Klarkashton
(2,157 posts)BootinUp
(49,141 posts)MayReasonRule
(1,852 posts)I guarantee it!!!
jaxexpat
(7,794 posts)underpants
(186,865 posts)ificandream
(10,560 posts)I swear I almost choked when I read this.
Him and his daughter are sooooooooooooooo dumb. (I can just hear the Match Game audience saying, "How dumb are they?"
Here's the commercial if you've never seen it.
nitpicked
(799 posts)Maybe it'll quit running there.
Harker
(15,027 posts)Hassler
(3,726 posts)iemanja
(54,816 posts)Huckabee announced There is no occupation, there is no West Bank, just Judaea and Samaria. The Palestinians are done for, and you know Bibi has been waiting for his chance to exterminate them.
Bibi doesnt care that the right hates Jews, that they are waiting for the end times when Jews either convert or die. He cares about killing Arabs and taking their land. Trump is making that easier.
C_U_L8R
(45,711 posts)Submariner
(12,693 posts)he probably couldn't miss seeing Mike Huckabee's anti-ACA ads, on all TV channels, mostly cable, frequently during the entire Obama presidency, up to the moment Senator McCain gave his righteous thumbs down to Trump's healthcare hell.
For someone who supposedly represents clergy, he comes across just as a mean prick that seems to like to hurt folks.
louis-t
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"met with trump and he's going to make me Ambassador to Lebanon". I keep trying to get my Mom to show me the photo. I'm sure it's a cardboard cutout. I have seen 2 people pose with a cardboard likeness and claim they met him.
True Dough
(20,490 posts)reach down and touch that cardboard cutout in the nether regions, a la MTG?
louis-t
(23,732 posts)milestogo
(17,991 posts)Israel should like that.
Ilsa
(62,251 posts)himself from proselytizing. I bet he leaves early, not the full four years.
not fooled
(6,082 posts)that he views them as requisite inconveniences on the way to the Rapture. And that he's a fake Xtian kook.
OhioTim
(305 posts)All Jews are going to hell because they do not accept Jesus as their savior
not fooled
(6,082 posts)I was being more euphemistic.
Wouldn't you think Huck's beliefs might make diplomatic interactions a tad bit awkward? Were I an Israeli diplomat, in the back of my mind would be "he seems nice, but I know he sees me as hell-bound because...yadda yadda yadda."
Hekate
(94,881 posts)mentalsolstice
(4,515 posts)He was a big player in damaging the rights of people in our area to enjoy the customary use of our beaches. And once he was done, he decided he didnt do enough damage and picked up and moved away, leaving us with a big fucking mess. Oh well, we still have Tommy Tuberville in the hood, except for his one or two days he spends in Alabama.
TomSlick
(11,932 posts)Trump will deal directly with Netanyahu.
Chuckles Huckabee will draw a nice salary, live in a nice house, and have plenty of time to tour. Not a bad gig.
bmichaelh
(609 posts)There is a scene from the Sopranos:
Hesh Rabkin, associate of Tony Soprano, and his daughter is visiting Tony Soprano in the hospital.
She says: 'You can disagree with Evangelicals, but they are great friends of the Jews, because Israel is the Holy Land.'
Hesh responds: 'Just, you wait'
Many evangelicals support Israel because of their interpretation of biblical prophecy.
tableturner
(1,756 posts)....ideology using the power of the law, and has NO respect for Judaism or any other religion that is not fundamentalist Christianity, including mainstream Christianity, is now going to be ambassador of a country full of people whose religion he has no respect for.
Butterflylady
(3,997 posts)I can't stop laughing.
jgmiller
(441 posts)or am I imagining that?
He also really needs to read the bible more carefully. I know that the land of Palestine is mentioned in there more than a few times which would mean that anyone who comes from there would be a Palestinian so clearly he also has trouble with language skills.
DFW
(56,679 posts)Sounds like a match made in, well, the writing team's studio of the Daily Show?
Rhiannon12866
(222,887 posts)Rhiannon12866
(222,887 posts)sheshe2
(87,735 posts)lapfog_1
(30,214 posts)This is literally Tel Miggido... or better known in Greek as Armageddon.
Mike doesn't love Jews... he hates them... his whole deal is to bring about the "final days" where Jews either convert to Christianity or perish at this place. If they convert, he will love them. The battle here at this place will bring about the return of Jesus Christ.
At least so wrote John of Patmos ( a small Greek island where he lived as a hermit ). He is NOT an apostle of Jesus, never met Jesus, and lived at least 100 years after Jesus. He wrote the book of revelations as a likely scam to get people to bring him food to eat in a cave he lived in on Patmos ( as a holy person ). The "book" of revelations was included in the scripture because a Pope decided that he liked the God of Retribution as a way to scare the ignorant populations of the beginning of the Dark Age to continue to belong to the church... and, more importantly, donate land and money to the church.
This is why Mike Huckabee wants to go to Israel. To convert the Jews.
Plus, I hate to tell the Christians this... but Jesus was not born anywhere near to December 25. By the actual descriptions in the Bible, it is more likely that he was born in the spring time. The early Christians moved the date of his birth to coincide with 2 things... a winter Roman god holiday called Saturnalia where almost all traditions about a evergreen tree and lights inside and presents and even kissing on the mistletoe... a green winter plant, were created. And this was the in celebration of the the Winter solstice ( Dec 22 or 3 days before ) because the people could visually SEE that the sun was returning ( more daylight ) meaning that spring ( and the growing season ) would soon arrive. The Christian church co-opted this holiday to make the pagans happy to not lose their favorite holiday when they converted.
Now you should hear about the actual origins of Santa Claus.
Icanthinkformyself
(296 posts)Too many believe the tripe that the Evangelicals just loves them some Jews. The joy felt by those special kind of haters upon the return of Jewish diaspora to the ancestral lands was because it's considered a sign of the coming Armageddon. If that happens, Armagettinouttahere,