Mike Huckabee, not too long ago confirmed as U.S. ambassador to Israel, locations a be aware given to him from President Trump within the cracks of the Western Wall, throughout Huckabee’s go to to the holy web site within the outdated metropolis of Jerusalem on April 18.
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TEL AVIV, Israel — Newly confirmed U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee arrived in Israel this week, and his first order of enterprise on Friday was to go to the Western Wall in Jerusalem, one among Judaism’s holiest websites. He touched the wall and bowed his head in prayer.
Huckabee stated President Trump instructed him to insert a prayer written by the president into the wall — the final remaining a part of a Jewish temple destroyed by the Romans nearly 2,000 years in the past. Some Jews historically place items of paper with prayers into the cracks of the traditional wall, hoping they ascend to God.
The paper learn “For peace in Israel” and was signed with the initials D. T., which Huckabee stated stood for Donald Trump.
“What an honor it’s for me to return on behalf of the president of the US, President Donald Trump, and to current a prayer that he handwrote, gave to me final Thursday on the White Home, with the instruction that my first act as ambassador can be to take his prayer — praying for the peace of Jerusalem — and to deliver it to the wall, and to wish that there would the truth is be, peace within the land,” Huckabee stated.
In 2017, Trump moved the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, recognizing it as Israel’s capital, a controversial transfer as Palestinians say the jap a part of town that Israel occupied in 1967 needs to be a Palestinian state’s future capital.
Huckabee is a longtime supporter of Israel and has beforehand spoken out towards efforts to barter a ceasefire cope with Hamas to finish the battle in Gaza. He referred to as unauthorized settlements within the occupied West Financial institution “communities.”
A former Arkansas governor and as soon as a presidential hopeful, Huckabee was a Baptist minister and has often led “The Israel Expertise” journeys that take tour teams to websites with Biblical and historic significance, just like the Sea of Galilee, the Backyard of Gethsemane and the Previous Metropolis of Jerusalem.
“There are particular phrases I refuse to make use of,” he said in 2017. “There isn’t a such factor as a West Financial institution — it is Judea and Samaria,” he stated, utilizing Biblical phrases for the West Financial institution. “There isn’t any such factor as a settlement. They’re communities. They’re neighborhoods. They’re cities. There isn’t any such factor as an occupation.”
