Mike Huckabee, the US’s new ambassador to Israel, responded to the World Health Organization (WHO) asking him to pressure Israel to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza by shifting the blame to Hamas, backing Israel’s collective punishment of the civilian population of Gaza.
“What I would like to suggest is that we work together on putting the pressure where it really belongs — on Hamas,” Huckabee said in a video statement released on his X account.
Huckabee called for Hamas to “sign an agreement” so humanitarian aid could go to the people of Gaza. He said when that happens, and the Israeli hostages are released, “then we hope that that humanitarian aid will flow and flow freely, knowing that it will be done without Hamas.”
Hamas has been offering to release all Israeli hostages in exchange for a permanent ceasefire and Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, but Israel has refused. Israel also refused to implement the full truce deal that was signed in January, which required humanitarian aid to enter Gaza. On March 2, Israel imposed a total blockade on all goods entering the Strip.
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said last week that no humanitarian aid would be entering Gaza and called the blockade on aid one of Israel’s “central pressure tools” against Hamas. Katz also vowed an indefinite Israeli occupation of the territory the IDF has captured in Gaza.
Huckabee was expected to staunchly back Israel’s crimes against Palestinians in his role as US ambassador due to his history of pushing for the Israeli annexation of the West Bank, which he calls Judea and Samaria. He is a Christian Zionist who believes the occupied Palestinian territory was given to the modern state of Israel by God.
While visiting an Israeli settlement in the West Bank in 2017, Huckabee claimed the territory was not under Israeli occupation. “I think Israel has title deed to Judea and Samaria,” Huckabee told CNN. “There are certain words I refuse to use. There is no such thing as a West Bank. It’s Judea and Samaria. There’s no such thing as a settlement. They’re communities, they’re neighborhoods, they’re cities. There’s no such thing as an occupation.”
Back in 2008, Huckabee said that there’s “no such thing as a Palestinian” and argued the Palestinians should be expelled to other Arab states.
This should not surprise anyone. As I said more than once during the election a victory for trump will be bad for Palestinians.
It isn't a surprise, and it isn't different from the previous administration. Here is a perfect example:
Biden’s Arms Cessation Hoax
With the pressure mounting for Biden to take meaningful action to mitigate the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza, including from his own Democratic support base, the administration proceeded to execute yet another cynical public relations ploy designed to sustain the illusion that the White House was concerned for Palestinian civilians.
In a letter dated October 13 to Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant from the U.S. State and Defense Departments, the Biden administration contradicted its own earlier claim that Israel was not blocking aid by admitting that it was. The letter requested Israel to “demonstrate a sustained commitment” to alleviate the suffering of Palestinian civilians, including by allowing 350 truckloads of aid per day into Gaza.
Failure to meet the criteria within thirty days, the letter stated, “may have implications for U.S. policy under NSM-20 and relevant U.S. law.” In other words, the letter warned that if Israel did not allow in significantly more aid, the United States might halt arms shipments.
Israel was given thirty days to comply—a duration that conveniently put the deadline after the U.S. presidential election.
In a State Department press briefing on November 4, one day before the election, a reporter accurately observed that since the letter was sent, the humanitarian situation in Gaza had worsened instead of improved, and department spokesman Matthew Miller admitted that Israel had failed to comply. He then joked about Israel still having more time before the deadline, prompting laughter in the room by remarking, “it’s not the end of the semester.”
The inquiring journalist then rebuked both the spokesman and his colleagues in the media by rightly objecting, “I suspect that the levity is a little bit inappropriate.”
Israel in fact had reduced the amount of aid it was letting into Gaza, but since the leaked letter was just another propaganda sham to begin with, after the thirty days had passed, the Biden administration declared that it would continue to provide the weapons necessary for Israel to continue its genocide.
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/how-trump-greenlighted-the-resumption-of-israels-gaza-genocide/
Yes, it is different. When did the Biden administration called for kicking the Palestinians out of Gaza?
When did the Biden administration publicly support cutting food to the Palestinians?
Damn man, it DOESN"T matter if he "called" for kicking the Palestinians out of Gaza or "publicly supported" cutting food for the Palestinians in Gaza. HE STILL ALLOWED IT. Did you read what I posted?
Did you read trump's comments and his administrators comments on Gaza? Do you not see the difference between the two administrations? One administration called for a two state solution, the other calls for elimination of one of the states. You have to look at the total picture, not one small peace as reported by a pro Palestinians news outlet.
I have no idea why trump supporters have hard time admitting that trump is tougher on Palestinians and more pro Israel than Biden.
Did you read trump's comments and his administrators comments on Gaza? Do you not see the difference between the two administrations?
One administration allowed the destruction of 70% of Gaza and 90% displacement while Israel dropped 80,000 tons of bombs on a heavily populated (mostly women and children) area of 141 square miles. The other administration allowed the continuation of that after a brief pause for a cease fire that Israel repeatedly violated. So, no difference in the Palestinians continuing to be slaughtered.
One administration called for a two state solution, the other calls for elimination of one of the states.
And the administration that called for two states didn't do a damn thing that would have made a two state solution possible. So, other than bullshit rhetoric, no difference.
You have to look at the total picture, not one small peace as reported by a pro Palestinians news outlet.
Are you saying what I posted from the Libertarian Institute wasn't factual? That Biden hadn't made that "threat" to Israel before the election? If so, you are full of shit.
I have no idea why trump supporters have hard time admitting that trump is tougher on Palestinians and more pro Israel than Biden.
You can't possibly be implying that I'm a trump supporter.
They are being judged by what they do. Both are malicious, evil monsters.
Biden was slimier than Trump, he is more of a slimy conman while Biden is a more slimy diplomate, both are scum.
The US is too sick to last much longer.
Yea, right. You will be dead and long buried when USA is no longer a nation.
My prediction for the last 15 years or so has been that by 2050, the United States “as we know it” will no longer exist.
I’ve seen no good reason to push that date further out. Not just because of Trump — he’s a symptom, not the cause — but because the system in general seems to be accelerating toward its own collapse as fast as it can go.
Of course the USA as we know it will change by 2050. Look how much it has changed in last 20 years or so. The nation changing does not mean the end of the USA as pessimistic persons like to claim.
Sure the USA has changed it is on a down slide for some time. It took a long time, including 2 WW, to end the British Empire, the one they said the sun never sets.
Since this country caters to the wealthiest, it will collapse on its own weight as the lower and middle classes become increasingly crushed by the domination of the aristocrats. Just look at what has happened the past few decades… most manufacturing offshored, the passing of Citizens United, the increase in CEO pay and stock buy back in corporate work world, insider trading among Congress members, more and more corruption, the laws passed after 9/11 that give the US the right to strike and bomb anywhere there is "terrorism", the huge military budget, the public's understandable distrust in media and organizations and government, the lack of affordable housing, this is leading to collapse under its own greedy weight..
“most manufacturing offshored”
And yet there’s more onshore manufacturing than at any time in history and median real income is up by more than a third since NAFTA.
Why is my comment still pending?
So I guess it's all a lie. All I know is that they are only building $300,000 homes but the rest of us have to settle on paying half of more of our income to rent a shoebox since service sector jobs are the prevailing economy. The largest employers in the US are Walmart and Amazon.
Yes, most US jobs these days are in the service sector. Congrats on getting paid more for doing less physically taxing work. Most people who pine for the return of factory work in the US have never worked in a factory.
Yes, the median house price in the US is now well over $300k. I’m personally sick of living in a rented mobile home as I have for the last 12 years, and hoping to find something to buy for $150k or less in the near future. At that price, it will be rural and almost certainly also a mobile home. Welcome to the real world.
I tend to agree with you, it will just take another form. Rome fell in 476 but the empire just moved east to Constantinople and lasted another thousand years with Emperors from newer provinces. Some of our white friends are afraid of the browning of America.
https://sonar21.com/is-the-catholic-leadership-in-rome-pontificating-on-world-crises-or-actually-taking-meaningful-action/
There's no such thing as defined words. Newspeak precludes all ThoughtCrime.
Huckabee:
“There are certain words I refuse to use."
Not me. Huckabee is a phony fucking Christian who should be hung by his balls and used as a pinata for Palestinian children.
Path of psychopathy:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/huckabees-son-and-his-his_b_77359
Did Huckabee help his son avoid prosecution for animal cruelty?
https://www.facingsouth.org/2007/12/did-huckabee-help-his-son-avoid-prosecution-for-animal-cruelty.html
Psychopathic personality traits: heritability and genetic overlap with internalizing and externalizing psychopathology
Conclusions
These results indicate that different psychopathic traits as measured by the MPQ show distinct genetically based relations with broad dimensions of DSM psychopathology.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2242349/
What is it with many evangelicals and treatment of animals? There is Kristi Noem who shoots her puppy and goat in cold blood because they did not behave ad then instead of hiding it, brags about it? Well it worked with Trump, he hired her
Yes, many have dogs because dogs can be ordered around. Most hate cats because cats are too independent, mysterious and have a knowing look that frightens them.
I suspect it's the whole "man has dominion over all animals" bit from the bibble.
We have the same thing, however, animals are to be treated humanely, e.g., beasts of burden can't be over loaded, animals for sacrifice have to be slaughtered with one back and forth stroke of the knife, pets aren't to be spayed and neutered without good cause, animals may not be hunted for sport and may not be tortured. There is a well known anecdote for one of the Ottoman Sultans who sent his soldiers to throw seeds on the snowy mountains so birds and other animals would not perish in the cold for lack of food. He was reported to have said “Even the birds and the wild animals are under our protection. We are the custodians of all Allah’s creatures.”
There is a well known Hadith for the Prophet in which he related the story of a Jewess prostitute who used her leather slipper to get water from a well to give it to a dog that was using his tongue to extract moisture from the soil because he was so thirsty. The Prophet said that this show of mercy was enough to enter her into paradise.
@SIU1968:disqus@warsrus:disqus@existentialdread:disqus
Psychopaths hide behind alleged institutions of empathy sometimes.
See Ted Bundy-suicide hotline.
Cults and control- Charles Manson.
Contrary to the claim of the 2004 film, Nobody Heart Huckabees.
Well said!
Hung from a tree and have stones thrown at him, like a dog?
Lol. I just can't condone the violent depiction and profanity.
I let my rage get the best of me. Although I'm not apologizing.
"Terrorism" is usually described as attacking and persecuting civilians for political ends.
But when Israel bombs and starves men,women, and children attempting to gain political leverage over 'Hamas' (aka resistance to Israeli apartheid and ethnic cleansing), it is not "terrorism", but the righteous Christian thing to do, if not Judaist).
(couched differently, but same equivalently for what the US government similarly does and has done to Cuba, North Korea, Libya, Syria, Somalia, Venezuela, Yemen, etc. It's alleged to be selfless "humanitarian intervention".)
How about we put pressure where it really belongs. On the genocidal war criminals.
Trump has approved over $14 billion in military aid and weapons sales to Israel.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/51d18e0cd22a302c389a1ebf13618ce94bf9e2b8a6d987ad9b6799faffa0ce01.jpg
evangelical zionist morons like huckabee are doing so much damage to our country. sure, sure, I bet the IDF is really “searching for the hostages” with this total blockade and when they drop bombs on hungry people living in tents or when they destroy homes and civil infrastructure with robo-drone bulldozers …. sickening
An article last week suggests that the last Israeli citizen captive was killed in an IDF strike. Can't imagine the Apartheid State of Israel much cares about any "half-blood Prince" (dual citizenship) hostages or foreigners possibly still held my Hamassian rebels.
The whole thing is so infuriating but Trump seems to know exactly what he is doing or not doing. He knows very well that without his Evangelical base he would be nothing. So he finds the most rabid Christian Zionist to become Ambassador to Israel.
He playes the peacemaker for some by negotiating with Iran instead of bombing it immediately. Instead he sends the most deadly weapons to Netanyahu to start the war. Then Trump can move in, finish it but blame Bibi for it all and himself as the great savior to have stopped iran from a nuclear weapon.
I wish the Left would stop calling him "demented" with Alzheimer. Whatever he has is not that. He schemes, he bullies, he confuses, he creates chaos, he manages to show himself a a savior all over. And many people have fallen for it all his life. Whatever it is it is not Dementia in a medical term.
He’s admittedly had a long and fairly successful career as a con artist. Not as successful as if he’d just put his inheritance in an S&P 500 indexed mutal fund instead of driving six businesses into bankruptcy but mostly managing to leave others holding the bag, but probably more successful than your average Nigerian Prince scammer or three-card monte dealer.
That said, his physical and mental disintegration over the last few years is pretty obvious. He’s become much more brittle and a lot more confused and whiny about people pointing out that he was born on third base and got high on his own supply of people standing around congratulating him on that there triple.
There is no LEFT in US…!
The Criminal minister must be happy to have a Criminal ambassador…!
Stanley Cohen @StanleyCohenLaw
Apr 17
As part of a team of South African Lawyers representing NGO's Palestine Solidarity Association, Cage South Africa & Zimbabwe Palestinian Solidarity Council today we filed an application to the African Commission on People & Human Rights ordering Egypt to open the Rafah crossing.
They weaponized humanitarian aid already, what next?
If I answered that question I might get put in the penalty box.
Now we all see what we thought in the first place – Huckabee, the "holy" politician from Arkansas, is just another Israeli whore who condones mass murder! Trump is "repaying" God for "saving his life" in the Butler assassination attempt by KILLING God's children! I see major payback for this violation!
Trump is just playing and acting. Nothing he says and even does is quite real. A lot of stuff is done for optimum show and then forgotten or reversed. Like the great show in NC about the flood victims and how great he was helping them – only a few months later stopping FEMA help to them.
Same with deportations during his first term. Huge show and media coverage but in reality he deported fewer than Obama. this is being repeated with for the camera military planes moving illegals out into torture prisons but in sheer numbers of fixing immigration it means nothing much.
Hucklebee is a low grade POS
Ah, the sleepium salesman got a new gig. The plutocrats pick nothing but the dumbest d-list tv actors, these days.
Blind ambiguity?…. Hmmmmm…..
Ambiguous how?
Ignorant.
No ambiguity about that!
huckabee used to be huge and fat but now he is an ozempic lizard
lol
"New U.S. Ambassador to Israel Huckabee Says Taking on Role Is 'A Calling From God Himself'" -Haaretz Apr 21, 2025.
"“I came here to say loud and clear that Evangelicals stand with Israel,” Huckabee said. “We believe in the Bible and we are grateful that God made it crystal clear that He loves Israel and the Jewish people and has chosen to bless them.”
In a rational society such delusional behaviour would call for in institutional care.
Without people Like Huckabee I wouldn't have a pet peeve. They worship a Jewish man which they depict with blond hair and blue eyes, they hold a very negative view of mankind and their view of piety is how much wealth they can amass. They preach morality but their leaders tend to engage in adultery, embezzlement, Jew hatred and racism. They're so stupid that they feel they have to help God fulfill His prophecies as if they can't happen without them. Thus, they support a secular hub of usury and pornography in the state of Israel. They're so screwed up, its no wonder they long for the rapture to relieve them from their miserable existence. The problem is stupid arrogant people are dangerous.