Mike Huckabee, Israel’s Passionate Defender as Gaza War Drives Allies Away
International condemnation of Israel for its nearly two-year-long war in Gaza is growing. Outrage over starvation in the enclave has led to calls from Israel’s allies for a Palestinian state. The U.N. secretary general said the situation was “a moral crisis that is challenging the global conscience.”
And yet there are few more passionate defenders of the country right now than Mike Huckabee, the U.S. ambassador to Israel, a Baptist minister and the first evangelical Christian to serve in the role.
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Michael Makovsky, the president and chief executive of the Jewish Institute for National Security of America, shrugs off the prophecy. His view, he said, is that Israel needs all of the friends it can get, and American evangelicals are a potent source of philanthropic and political support.
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Read the full piece in the New York Times.