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Mike Huckabee speaks in Central Park at the Israel Day Concert on May 31, 2015
In a speech in New York this weekend, Mike Huckabee told a sympathetic crowd that Israeli occupation has made life great for Palestinians,
Arutz Sheva reports.
The Republican presidential candidate gave a keynote at the 22nd annual Israel Day Concert in Central Park,
a "star-studded" event to honor "three slain Israeli teens." This year's show
featured performances by musicians Alex Clare, Gad Elbaz, Mati Shriki, and others, as well as speeches by political officials, including George W. Bush's former ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton.
"We must educate world," Huckabee said in his Sunday speech,
"that the Israelis have done more to bring prosperity, peace, and a state of liberty to people, whether they're Jewish or not."
The former governor of Arkansas describes a visit last year to a Soda Stream factory in Judea, where he observed "600 Arabs and 500 Jews working side by side, the Arabs earning four times the amount of money they would in any place in the [Palestinian Authority]." Even still, says Huckabee, there is probably "somebody in Europe or somebody in this country sitting in some Ivy League ivory tower" questioning Israel's supreme authority.
"Tell that to Arabs who've made more than ever in their lives," Huckabee quips. He argues occupied Palestine is better off under Israeli control, because of sidewalks, hospitals, and schools that Palestinians "never had before."
Huckabee says the relationship between the United States and Israel is not just a matter of "political convenience" for him, but of "personal passion." A devout Christian, Huckabee speaks of the
U.S.-Israeli alliance with undertones of fire-and-brimstone, Old Testament spirituality.
"There is no explanation for Israel," Huckabee declares, "other than the hand of almighty God that has preserved and protected and given the Jews their homeland after 2,000 years of being scattered across the earth." And there is no evident reason that the United States should exist, Huckabee says, "other than the providence of God's hand."
Huckabee accuses U.S. political leaders of being more diplomatic with Iran than they are with Israel.
If he becomes president, Huckabee says, he will make sure Iran will not obtain bombs and then use them to attack Israel.
A "threat to Israel is a threat to the United States," Huckabee explains. "
Our liberty is threatened by the forces of radical jihad." Those who identify pressing American policy issues other than radical jihad, according to Huckabee, won't call the "enemy by its name."
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