Huckabee's right
Published by Avi Green on Saturday, April 25, 2009 at 12:30 PM.
In an interview with Worldmag (via Politico and Hot Air Headlines), Mike Huckabee says:
WORLD: What about Israel and the Palestinians? Any hope there?He's quite right, the whole notion was nonsense from the very beginning. Now I know why I've liked him as a host on FOX News' interview programs.
HUCKABEE: I've been to Israel 10 times; I've also been to virtually every other country in the area. This may put me in such a small minority, but I think this two-state solution is nonsense. If we're trying to get these two warring factions to occupy the same piece of real estate with two political entities layering over each other, that's absurd. We wouldn't tolerate it and they're not going to tolerate it. We shouldn't try to prolong the sense of that happening. [Israelis] not only have a right to existence, which is a fundamental agreement dating back to the early 1900s in the Balfour Declaration, but a right to a secure homeland. The tiny sliver of real estate they occupy, surrounded by people who are hostile to them, is really a very vulnerable place for them. Hoping for this two-state solution is simply not practical.
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