Over at The American Prospect Matthew Duss has written an important expose of Southern Baptist Pastor Mike Huckabee's recent visit to Israel. Duss asks why Huckabee's views, (he justifies the transfer of Palestinians from the Occupied Territories and opposes the Two State Solution) so far to the right of his own party, have not been more heavily criticised? Simple - he is a Southern Baptist, a Republican and a Presidential candidate for 2012.
Entitled, Will Huckabee Pay A Price For Rejecting the Two-State Solution? Duss writes,
"On Monday, a radical cleric issued a statement rejecting a two-state solution for Israel-Palestine, suggesting that one of the two parties involved in the conflict should be made to find a homeland "elsewhere." Strangely, conservatives, who can usually be counted on to condemn such statements, have thus far been silent about this denial of the right of two peoples to two states in the Holy Land.But perhaps it's not so strange, given that the cleric in question is Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor, non-ordained Southern Baptist pastor, and former (and likely future) Republican presidential candidate. Speaking to reporters while on a tour of Jewish settlements in East Jerusalem, Huckabee insisted that there is no room for a Palestinian state "in the middle of the Jewish homeland" and that the international community should consider giving the Palestinians a state some place else."
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