Important Takeaways:

• At Governor Mike Huckabee’s confirmation hearing, what stood out was his depth of knowledge and understanding of Israel, Gaza, and the Middle East. Huckabee, a great friend of Israel, said he wouldn’t push his own agenda but would represent that of President Trump.
• Huckabee, President Trump’s pick for ambassador to Israel, testified that October 7 clearly shows why Hamas has to go.
• “This was not simply a cold-blooded murder in which people came across the borders and shot innocent people. They massacred them,” Huckabee said. “Hamas is not a government. It is not a standing army. It is a terrorist organization, and they acted like it. And they must be treated as such.”
• Huckabee says America and Israel are tied to each other spiritually.
• “We ultimately are people of the Book. We believe the Bible. And therefore, that connection is not geopolitical. It is also spiritual.”
• The former Arkansas governor suggested it’s ridiculous to insist that Israeli land is the only place there can be a Palestinian state.
• “Israel is a tiny, little strip of land. You know that. We all do. It’s the size of New Jersey. But Muslim countries control 644 times the amount of land that Israel has,” he said emphatically. “The Palestinians were given the opportunity in the year 2000, when Ehud Barak from Israel put everything on the table, virtually said, ‘Here it is. You get it all,’ and the Palestinian Liberation Organization walked away from it.”
• America, he insists, must face the fact that the Iranian regime is as much a danger to the U.S. as it is to Israel.
• If confirmed, he vows to work with the Trump administration in securing peace in the Middle East.

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