Mike Huckabee, Israel's Passionate Defender as Gaza War Drives Allies Away
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.
Even after his boss, President Trump, broke with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and acknowledged 'real starvation' in Gaza, Mr. Huckabee did not.
'There is hunger and there are some serious issues that need to be addressed,' Mr. Huckabee said this past week at his official residence in central Jerusalem. But, he said, 'it's not like Sudan or Rwanda or other places where there has been mass starvation.' The Gaza Health Ministry has said scores of people, including many children, have died of malnutrition. It is not clear how many also had other illnesses.
Mr. Huckabee defended the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, an aid group led by his longtime friend Johnnie Moore, another evangelical Christian. The group, backed by Israel and run largely by U.S. contractors, has been widely criticized for shootings by Israeli troops near its food distribution sites.
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