US Republican presidential candidate Gov. Mike Huckabee made a quick two-day visit to Israel to pick up support for his campaign – financial and otherwise. The apparent primary motivation for the trip – the latest of many over the past 42 years according to Huckabee – was a fundraiser held on Tuesday in the West Bank Jewish community of Shilo; a controversy in itself because of its location on land the Palestinians claim for their future state. But the former Arkansas governor is well-aware of the issue and unhesitatingly believes that Judea and Samaria – using the Biblical names for the West Bank – have 3,500 years of history backing up the modern-day claim, “a greater tie than Americans have to Manhattan.” Speaking to reporters in Jerusalem on Wednesday, Huckabee was adamant in stressing that his meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu in no way implied an endorsement in the presidential race by the Israeli leader despite the closeness of the two men’s positions in opposition to the Iranian nuclear deal. Huckabee chided the Obama administration, saying, “Our government has put more pressure on the Israeli government to stop building bedrooms in their own neighborhoods, than on Iran to stop building bombs.”
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