Huckabee in Israel Defends Jewish Construction

Mike Huckabee was in Israel Monday and stated his opposition to hussein Obama's demand that Israel halt construction in eastern Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria and said that no one should be telling Israelis where they can live in their own country.

Dozens of right- and left-wing activists squared off outside the Shepherd Hotel on Monday evening as past and future US presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee, joined by a number of MKs, attended a private reception inside the compound, which has become a central point of contention between the American administration and Israel over Jewish building rights in the annexed parts of the capital.

Huckabee visit sparks protests
Ex-presidential hopeful attends reception at controversial east J'lem site.

Huckabee, who is focusing his current tour of Israel on visits to east Jerusalem and the West Bank and meetings with settler leaders, has positioned himself in direct opposition to US President Barack Obama and his administration's demands that Israel halt all construction over the Green Line.

"It concerns me when there are some in the United States who would want to tell Israel that it cannot allow people to live in their own country, wherever they want," Huckabee had told reporters earlier in the day.

While the reception at the hotel was closed to the press and Huckabee made no formal statement, his participation was widely seen as an endorsement of plans by the Ateret Cohanim organization to build housing units at the site, which was purchased in 1985 by American tycoon Irving Moskowitz and was once home to the pro-Nazi mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini.

The US has called on Israel to suspend the building plans, as part of a larger demand for a freeze of all Jewish construction in east Jerusalem and the West Bank.

On Monday evening, left-wing protesters outside the gated compound heckled Huckabee as he arrived, yelling at him, "Go Home!" and "Racist!" while a contingent of right-wing activists, separated from their left-wing counterparts by border policemen and police officers, waved Israeli flags and blasted "Hatikva" through a bullhorn.

Members of the left-wing camp said they had come in the name of peace, and that the nearly 100 guests at the reception were fomenting violence and continued strife in the capital.

"They don't want peace," said Angela Godfrey-Goldstein, who works with the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions. "They are full of hatred and teach their children to hate. It's very far away from Judaism."

The right-wing protesters, however, said they were defending Jewish rights in the capital and would not allow the leftists to "promote the division of Jerusalem" without having their say.

"We're here to represent the majority of Israelis, who believe that Jerusalem should not be divided," said Amit Barak. Members of his university student organization, Im Tirtzu, were outside the hotel to support Huckabee and counter the left-wingers who had congregated nearby.

"If you look at the [left-wing protesters], you'll see that many of them are foreign, anti-Semitic international activists or older Israelis, calling for the division of Jerusalem," Barak said. "We, on the other hand, are the youth of this country, and we want our voices to be heard."

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Why are foreign left wing aggitators allowed to stir up trouble inside Israel? Who the fuck are they to demand Israel give away her territory to muslim terrorists? I suggest they go to Gaza and make demands upon hamas. Let's see how far they get.

Bless Mike Huckabee. What a wonderful man he is. Huckabee/Palin 2012.