Incoming US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, a longtime stalwart friend of the Jewish State, began his diplomatic mission on Friday with a prayer at the Western Wall.
Immediately upon landing at Ben Gurion International Airport, Huckabee headed straight to the Western Wall in Jerusalem, where he placed a tiny prayer note in between the stones of the Wall that was written by President Donald Trump.
In his signature heavy black ink, the president wrote in capital letters: “FOR PEACE IN ISRAEL. D.T.”
Huckabee added that he came with an additional prayer “that all of the hostages will come home NOW,” and said “that is the prayer of the president as well.”
Speaking to the crowd of reporters and photographers in the Western Wall Plaza a short time later, Huckabee noted that the relationship between Israel and the United States is by no means a one-way street.
“The truth is the United States benefits a great deal from Israel and not just militarily. We certainly benefit from the technology, from the innovation, from defense systems that were developed here,” Huckabee noted.
“But there’s a much more important and long lasting side, where Americans benefit in agriculture, technology, medical advancement, so it is not a one-way street,” he emphasized. “The United States and its citizens are directly the beneficiaries of some of the extraordinary achievements and accomplishments and innovations of people here in Israel.”
As for the humanitarian tragedy in Gaza due to the war forced upon Israel by the enclave’s terrorist rulers, Huckabee was blunt when asked about plans for the “day after” the war.
“The tragedy is there has to be plans to do something different,” he said. “If Hamas had been a civil people, if they had been something less than savages that massacred in the
most vicious way innocent civilians … they attacked civilians, they attacked women, children, babies, helpless elderly people,” Huckabee pointed out.
“They brought this upon themselves. Everything that people see there is not the result of anything other than the vicious hatred that Hamas harbored and carried out on October the 7th and they are paying the price – and tragically so many innocent people are paying the price – for the sins and the evil of these monsters of Hamas.”
