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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(115,244 posts)
Wed Nov 13, 2024, 02:38 PM Nov 13

Trump's Israel ambassador? A guy who jokes about Jews in ovens

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 Huckabee’s nomination comes with a controversial past that raises eyebrows, especially given the region’s 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 media—from Fox News hosts Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham to far-right outlet Breitbart—rushed 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

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Trump's Israel ambassador? A guy who jokes about Jews in ovens (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 13 OP
He's hot for Armageddon BoRaGard Nov 13 #1
Huckabee is a faux friend of the Jews. madaboutharry Nov 13 #2
Ummm hmmm BoRaGard Nov 13 #3
Obviously not! madaboutharry Nov 13 #5
He's got it bad for the Second Coming. nt City Lights Nov 13 #4
The Second Coming BoRaGard Thursday #6
They also wore 'Camp Auschwitz' shirts to the insurrection RandiFan1290 Thursday #7

madaboutharry

(41,351 posts)
2. Huckabee is a faux friend of the Jews.
Wed Nov 13, 2024, 02:48 PM
Nov 13

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)
6. The Second Coming
Thu Nov 14, 2024, 05:27 AM
Thursday

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)
7. They also wore 'Camp Auschwitz' shirts to the insurrection
Thu Nov 14, 2024, 05:32 AM
Thursday

but it was students protesting genocide that riled up the 'centrists'

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