Huckabee: Two “States in Holy Land ‘Unrealistic’”

Aaron Keyak — August 18, 2009 – 4:01 pm | Israel | Republicans Comments (3) Add a comment

Today, the Associated Press reported, ”[f]ormer U.S. presidential candidate Mike Huckabee said Tuesday there should be no Palestinian state in the West Bank and endorsed Israeli settlements there, sharply disagreeing with Washington and much of the world.”

Indeed. Huckabee is certainly out of step with the consensus of the pro-Israel community.

Here’s an excerpt:

A three-day tour of Israel, hosted by a far-right group of religious nationalists, is taking Huckabee to some of the most contentious hotspots in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict including a West Bank settlement outpost that even Israel’s hard-line government considers illegal and an east Jerusalem housing project that the Obama administration has demanded be halted.

Israel officially refuses to freeze its settlement activity, but officials have confirmed that approval is now being withheld from fresh projects.

Huckabee’s opposition to a Palestinian state puts him at odds with the accepted wisdom of both Democrats and Republicans - and to some degree even with conservative Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has come out in favor of some form of Palestinian independence.

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