Huckabee: Obama ‘Resents’ Israel, Identifies With Rest Of Middle East

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee speaks during the Iowa Agriculture Summit, Saturday, March 7, 2015, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
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Potential presidential nominee and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) said on Thursday that President Obama’s views on Israel stem from his “identity with” other countries in the Middle East.

“This administration in general, and this president in particular, has an extraordinary disdain for Israel in general, and Benjamin Netanyahu in particular. And it’s just inexplicable,” Huckabee said on NewxmaxTV’s “Steve Malzberg Show,” according to a clip highlighted by Buzzfeed News.

Host Steve Malzberg then asked Huckabee why the president feels that way about Israel.

“It’s hard for me to understand that. The only thing I can fathom is he has an extraordinary sense of identity with, sympathy for, many of the other Middle Eastern nations,” Huckabee responded.

“I think he resents the strength of Israel,” he continued. “I think he resents very much the strength of Benjamin Netanyahu, who is absolutely forthright in his understanding of what the threats are with Islamic jihadism, a term that President Obama cannot bring himself to utter, nor can his administration.”

Watch the clip via NewsmaxTV:

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  1. Avatar for lew lew says:

    How can any human being be this stupid and still know how to breath?

  2. This man needs to lay off the twinkies. He’s a pretty smooth grifter. He also has serious issues with what is real and what is imaginary–maybe that is why his followers send him money. Like Israel so much? – Go live there and wrap your lips around Netanyahu’s genitals from a little closer as it much be tough stretching your neck from Arkansas or the FOX Entertainment headquarters in that awful city called New York where the women folk cuss in front of you. I’m sure the Israeli women are very demure, don’t cuss and will never fart in front of you.

    Is it really that much of a prerequisite to totally hate President Obama, trash-talk he and his family, tell total untruths and make yourself look like an asshat to be a “leader” from within the Republican Party? There are so many of them nowadays. Like flies.

  3. Avatar for JohnB JohnB says:

    Now: Let’s see someone get to the Right of THAT statement!

    (Obama has given weapons to Israel that Bush refused to provide. Yet we still hear talk like this.)

  4. Exactly! President Obama has done more for Israel, militarily-speaking, than any past president. Obama has provided Israel with far more military financial assistance than any past president. Huckabee does not believe in his “god.” Anyone who preaches about a god like the one mainline American religions do would never much make such false statements. Bearing false witness is a big no-no – and these are some big-ass false witnesses.

    Mr. Netanyahu may not be President Obama’s favorite person in the world but he has never treated the man with disrespect – and has always come to the table with help and assistance when asked.

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