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Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor who has been nominated as U.S. Ambassador to Israel, believes positive change is coming to the troubled nation.
“I think when you listen to the president, he makes it very clear there are two things that are fundamental; two things that drive everything,” he said during an interview Sunday Morning Futures on Fox News. “One, get the hostages home. And two, make sure that Israel never has to experience the massacre that they experienced on October 7.”
He supports efforts to remove Hamas from control in Gaza. According to recent reports, “As long as Hamas exists, that is a threat to the Israelis,” Huckabee said. “They have said even as recent as two weeks ago that they would try to do another October 7. So, let’s not be in any way fooled that they want peace. They don’t. They want the destruction of the Jewish state. And America must help protect the people of Israel, the Jewish state and the Jewish people. It’s as simple as that, and you can’t do it as long as Hamas is in play.”
Huckabee, whose appointment still awaits Senate approval, said it is not certain who will be in charge of Gaza after Hamas is removed from power.
“I don’t think we know,” he said. “The one thing we know is that Hamas is not going to be able to exist. That’s just a done deal. It’s sort of like saying Iran can’t have a nuclear weapon, and Hamas cannot continue to exist. They can never have anything to do with the governance of Gaza.”
Israel previously attempted to give the Palestinians a state when they handed over Gaza. As extensively covered, “They militarily marched 10,000 Jewish people out of Gaza, turned it into a complete Palestinian state and the result we saw on October 7,” he said. “So, there’s something that has to be rethought. We don’t know exactly what might happen in Gaza, but here’s what could have happened in Gaza. Gaza could have been Singapore. Instead, Hamas turned it into Haiti and, in fact, maybe worse, far worse than that. So let’s hope that people will listen to President Trump.”
The former governor, who has traveled to Israel over 100 times, is optimistic about the future of the Middle East including broader peace between Israel and its neighbors. There is movement to bring in Lebanon and even Syria to the Abraham Accords.
The nomination process continues.
–Dwight Widaman
