rssHuckabee: Restricting West Bank Settlements Would Be Like Jim Crow Segregation
Monday, August 31, 2009 at 5:12 pm
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While in Israel, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee gave an interview to an extremely sympathetic reporter for PajamasTV. Asked about “the Obama administration’s view of Jewish settlements,” Huckabee compares the idea of telling Jewish families not to move to the settlements to American segregation. “We tried that in the United States,” Huckabee says. “We had neighborhoods that were all white. Black people couldn’t live there. Didn’t work out real well for us.”
To tell Jewish people they can’t live in certain neighborhoods is really to deny them not just their neighborhood, it’s to deny them their basic sense of liberty.
That’s not far from the line of The Israel Project, an extremely conservative Zionist group that’s compared the Obama administration’s policy here to “racism.”
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Comment posted August 31, 2009 @ 11:50 pm
“To tell Jewish people they can’t live in certain neighborhoods is really to deny them not just their neighborhood, it’s to deny them their basic sense of liberty.”
If Mr. Huckabee were fair or consistent, he would therefore also support the right of return for Palestinians to their neighborhoods and homelands in Jerusalem or what is now Israel. But hopes for such fairness or consistency are futile when religious fanaticism gets involved.
Comment posted September 1, 2009 @ 1:55 am
Just to clean up Huck's analogy. During Jim Crow segregation days, there is about 10,000 square miles between the US and Mexico that is disputed. Some Americans expand their settlements in this disputed land which violates a previous agreement. Both the US and Mexican governments are opposed to this as they try to resolve this complicated issue. Mexico is shooting rockets into the US and the US goes into Mexico to stop the rockets, killing and destroying to stop the rocket fire. The Mexican government is somewhat unstable because they are divided over this issue. Next France's President is trying to broker peace between the US and Mexico as has the last 5 President of France tried and failed. While a France radio/TV personality and 2012 presidential hopeful interjects himself into the conversation, not to bring peace and stop senseless death but to position himself against the present President.
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