Kurtzer: Huckabee Guilty Of Same ‘Incitement’ That Led To Rabin Assassination

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Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel Daniel Kurtzer on Monday night condemned former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee’s (R) “outrageous comments” comparing the Iran nuclear deal to the Holocaust and said that Huckabee’s statements reminded him of the “incitement” that led to the assassination of former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.

“There are serious issues to be debated here but for anybody to equate what the president’s doing to what Adolph Hitler did in World War II is just extraordinary. And in some ways it’s a form of incitement, and we’ve seen the results of that 20 years ago in Israel. There was the same kind of incitement against Yitzhak Rabin and that led to a tragic outcome,” Kurtzer, who served as ambassador under President George W. Bush, said on MSNBC’s “All In With Chris Hayes.”

“I just hope that people really stand back and understand that Mr. Huckabee has crossed a very serious line here,” he continued. “Every Republican candidate should stand up, condemn this and ask him to retract it.”

Rabin was assassinated in 1995 after he helped broker the Oslo Accords between Israel and Palestine.

Despite strong condemnations of his remarks, Huchabee has refused to apologize for or back down from comments he made about the Iran nuclear deal on Saturday.

“This president’s foreign policy is the most feckless in American history. It is so naive that he would trust the Iranians. By doing so, he will take the Israelis and march them to the door of the oven,” Huckabee said on Saturday in an interview with Breitbart News.

Watch Kurtzer’s interview with Chris Hayes at MSNBC.

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  1. “Despite strong condemnations of his remarks, Huchabee has refused to apologize for or back down from comments he made about the Iran nuclear deal on Saturday.”

    And he won’t. That’s the playbook for the GOP this campaign, writ large by Trump. Say something, anything, outrageous, and then refuse to apologize to show how strong you are in your convictions.

  2. Yea…good luck with that retraction.

    Huckleberry is only saying what Donald’s audience wants to hear. He needs the attention to keep fleecing the rubes…err, stay in the race…and the only way to do that in today’s TP-run GOP is to peg the ODS-outrage meter.

  3. Uh-oh, the Huckapoodle’s knee-deep in feck…

  4. Avatar for tao tao says:

    C’mon, The Pious, Charitable and ever sooooo Reverend Hukabuk has a $3,000,000 Florida house to pay for. It would be a small thing if anyone had to die so the payments could be made.

  5. If Huck is forced out because of this, who gains the debate stage Carly Fiorina or Lord Valdemort?

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