The US ambassador to Israel says he had a “rough” night amid Iran’s retaliatory strikes against the occupied territories and that he had to go to shelters five times overnight amid the missile barrage
“It’s now Shabbat here. Should be quiet. Probably won’t be. Entire nation under orders to stay near shelter,” Mike Huckabee posted on X.
Iran’s successful military operation – True Promise III on Friday pounded several areas in the occupied Palestinian territories, including the capital city, Tel Aviv, in retaliation to an unprovoked Israeli attack against the Islamic Republic.
Huckabee, a staunch supporter of genocidal Israeli regime, who has said there’s “no such thing” as West Bank, said earlier this week that he the prospect of Israel launching a strike against Iran without US approval or coordination was unlikely.
“I just don’t in my mind see that that would be something that would likely happen because of the closeness of the relationship and the trust, and that’s the word I would emphasize – there is a trust between the US and Israel,” he told Israeli news outlet Ynet.
“I often say, we have friends, we have allies, but we only have one partner, Israel, and when I say that, I don’t mean that we don’t have deep relationships with other countries,” Huckabee said.
“But there isn’t really any country with which we have the level of sharing on intelligence, military hardware, strategy, common goals – in large measure because we share a common foundation of a civilization based on the Judeo-Christian worldview.”
The newly-appointed US ambassador to Tel Aviv is an evangelical Christian and an outspoken supporter of the Israeli regime. In 2017, during a visit to the Israeli regime, he made a biblical reference to the Palestinian West Bank, saying “I think Israel has title deed to Judea and Samaria.”
“There are certain words I refuse to use. There is no such thing as a West Bank. It’s Judea and Samaria,” Huckabee said. “There’s no such thing as a settlement. They’re communities, they’re neighborhoods, they’re cities. There’s no such thing as an occupation.”
As a 2008 presidential candidate, Huckabee also said “there’s really no such thing as a Palestinian,” and has suggested that a Palestinian state could be constructed with land from Arab countries surrounding Israel.
