Huckabee becomes 2nd GOP hopeful to meet with Netanyahu

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Israel is the new Iowa for the GOP...

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0111/Huckabee_meets_Netanyahu.html

After Benjamin Netanyahu met Mitt Romney earlier this month, I wondered whether he'd meet every Republican hopeful making his way through Israel, even as his relationship with Obama grows chillier and chillier.

The answer, so far, is yes: Netanyahu met Mike Huckabee yesterday. There seems to be some difference of protocol, though: Huckabee didn't get a statement and photo on the prime ministerial website, and Romney didn't have to share his photo op with Jon Voight, who joined Huckabee at the ribbon cutting for new construction in East Jerusalem.

Huckabee's regional allies, who were overseeing the ceremony, are notably committed to expanding the Jewish area of Jerusalem, something critics see as an impediment to partitioning the city in a negotiated settlement. His view:

"It is inconceivable in many ways that we would have to even argue and debate whether or not Israelis could live in Israel, not just in parts of Israel but anywhere in Israel they wished to live," Huckabee added. "I cannot imagine as an American being told that I could not live in certain places in America because I was Christian, or because I was white, or because I spoke English. I would be outraged if someone told me that in my country, I would be prohibited and forbidden to live in a part of that country, for any reason."

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[sharp_stick]

1. Does anyone in Israel realize the only reason

the fundie assholes like Huckabee pretend to like them is so that they will build a temple or some other shit on a certain piece of real estate that will usher in the Rapture and the second coming of jeebus?

It's like that fat bag of shit preacher in Texas, damn name slipped my mind, he's all about helping the good people of Israel until jeebus comes back and would help him wipe out the unfaithful under his holy sandal of fury.

[tishaLA]

2. Huckleberry is too fucking stupid to figure out why

it might not be a good idea to expand Israeli housing in Jerusalem.

I do think it's funny Voight is there, though. He's always on the Chabad telethon, chilling with the Lubavitcher and acting the fool.