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On Tuesday, President-elect Donald Trump announced that he will nominate former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, a longtime Republican commentator, as the U.S. ambassador to Israel.
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But Huckabees nomination comes with a controversial past that raises eyebrows, especially given the regions current conflict.
After all, this is the same Mike Huckabee who made reprehensible comments about Jews in 2015. After then-President Barack Obama signed a nuclear deal with Iran, Huckabee claimed that Obama was marching Israelis to the door of the oven.
Facing significant blowback, including from the Anti-Defamation League, Huckabee backtracked by alleging that the Jewish community loved his Holocaust reference. But naturally, conservative mediafrom Fox News hosts Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham to far-right outlet Breitbartrushed to his defense at the time.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/11/12/2285693/-Trump-s-Israel-ambassador-A-guy-who-jokes-about-Jews-in-ovens
BoRaGard
(2,838 posts)Like all the TaliBornAgains (R).
madaboutharry
(41,351 posts)His alleged love of Israel and the Jewish people is fake. Huckabee is an End Timer who believes in Armageddon, at which time the Jewish people will either consent to convert to Christianity or be killed and sent to eternal damnation. I don't know about you, but I do not consider such people to be my friend.
BoRaGard
(2,838 posts)madaboutharry
(41,351 posts)City Lights
(25,303 posts)BoRaGard
(2,838 posts)The Second Coming - By William Butler Yeats
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
RandiFan1290
(6,403 posts)but it was students protesting genocide that riled up the 'centrists'